Customer Reviews

Amcor ALD12000EH 12000-BTU Portable Air Conditioner and Heater

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Over the years, we've acquired SIX of these units for our hermetically sealed offices. We have no windows that can be opened and the building temperature will vary from 63 degrees to 85 degrees from one day to the next. We're on the 5th floor and have nowhere to vent units to the outside. Yes, these units have 4" discharge hoses that need to vent away from the space being heated or cooled but we solved the problem by installing venting into the dropped ceilings and the hot air or cold air being discharged by the units goes into the space above the ceiling panels. Not a perfect solution, but it works well to make the office work space tolerable when the building HVAC system goes haywire.

I've found these units to be relatively quiet and very efficient. Because they are multi-purpose (heat, air conditioner, fan and dehumidifier), they are useful year round. We'd just be miserable without them. YES, you do have to drain the units if your space is extremely humid but it's not a huge hassle. We generally only have to do this occasionally when the building humidity level jumps unusually high.

I heartily recommend the Amcor 12,000 BTU portable air conditioners for supplemental climate control.

We bought this unit for its A/C function but it has failed miserably. It hardly cools a room of any size. After 2 hours, the most this unit would do is to drop 3 degrees Fahrenheit in a small corner of the room while the rest of the room's temperature remains unchanged. One of the main problems might be due to the heat that its hose radiates. I have used insulators bought from the hardware store but they didn't help. The hose temperature can reach as high as 130 degrees! As a heater, this unit works fine. Noise can be unbearable, however.

Have a ALD12000 (no heater) bought less than 2 years ago. It no longer is cooling (probably compressor). Calls for assistance go unanswered. Getting (No one here to assist you...hangup) or (Leave a message we will get back to you. They don't) or (Try to leave them a message and their mailbox is full!)

Have no idea how well the unit actually works - it arrived damage so I never plugged it in. The cabinet broke away from the base of the unit during shipping. This appears to be due partially to the design of the unit (this junction was weak) and packaging (being weak, it was even more important to support it for shipping.) Given that the unit weighed about 90 lbs, it was not pleasant to pull it out of the packaging, only to have to re-package it to return it. However, the return went smooth and my purchase credited promptly. I ended up buying a Amcor Nanomax A12000EH instead, which works great.

I don't know there is any other product that doesn't need hose to be attached outside. If there's any other Heater/Air conditioner which doesn't have this feature, I would have purchased that one.