Customer Reviews

DeLonghi PAC400 Pinguino Portable Air Conditioner

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This is a great design of a portable air conditioner. It consists of two, one cold and one hot, separate units connected with flexible hose, which can be disconnected for installation. It is powerful and quiet. I have installed it in the garage where my wife does laundry. I pulled the hoses through the hole I made in the concrete wall. When the A/C is on the temperature in the garage of 400 square feet drops from 843F to 75F.
The only bad thing is the poor customer support. They did not reply my e-mails at all and when I called them that person appeared having no idea how the product worked nor he knew anything about basics of A/Cs. In other words after you have bought the product you are left on your own

I live in a house built into the hillside in the hills of Los Angeles. You enter off the street to the top story. The house is two stories with a basement area at the bottom. The roof is flat. As other reviewers have commented the unit is in two pieces. I have a balcony and most of the noise is outside where the hot air blows out. It runs very quietly inside and efficiently. As others have stated, it is expensive, but you get what you pay for. My house used to be miserable in the summer. Now, (upstairs is approximately 700 square feet, downstairs is about 1,000 square feet)by keeping the top floor that is exposed to the sun cool, the rest of the house remains cool. I would highly recommend this unit to anyone that has a balcony that the external unit can be placed on. I have not had to have any service done to the unit in 5 years. Los Angeles is a warm place and this portable air conditioning unit does the job remarkably well.