Sharp CV-P10MC 9,500 BTU Portable Air Conditioner

by Sharp

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 96 pounds
• ASIN: B000O8DHG2
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,816 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 10, 2007

Product Description

Sharp's new CV-P10LC Portable Air Conditioner is easy to move from room to room. It provides quiet cooling with sleek and attractive styling and a PlasmaclusterTM ion generator. Use it as a dehumidifier to remove up to 60 pints of moisture from the air in a single day. A fully featured remote control with LCD display allows you to control the unit from anywhere in the room. The flexible exhaust hose and window adapter kit allow window installation and venting of the hot air, while keeping rain and insects out. 9,500 BTU, EER 9.4

Customer Reviews

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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Let's call it 3.75 Stars, March 24, 2007

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Dr. Design - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sharp CV-P10MC 9,500 BTU Portable Air Conditioner

I just bought and installed the Sharp CV-P10MC Air Conditioner in my bedroom. I like the unit, and it went together fairly easily, once I understood how the six (6) piece window frame was supposed to work. Because I installed the air conditioner exhaust in a 46 inch wide double-paned window, all components that came in the box were used. The vinyl window frame has a deep "groove" for the window to sit in, vice a traditional flat sill. This realization caused me to scramble to find scrap wood to fill the groove and provide the desired flat sill. Although not explicitly stated, this hot air vent to the outside environment is as permanent an installation as most other things around today's homes.

This is where I would like to see a bit more honest disclosure from Sharp. Yes, this nearly 100 lb. unit is on castors, but I seriously doubt anyone will be moving it from room to room. To use it in another room, an additional window vent bracket would have to be installed.

This unit also removes up to 60 pints of water a day! That water has to go somewhere, and that means I have to provide a hose and "drip pan". The unsuspecting pedestrian is no longer the target of the cool, refreshing drip of a traditional window air conditioner's condensate. That byproduct of the refrigeration cycle is now mine alone to deal with.

Finally, I would have liked to better understand the floor space required for this unit to properly operate. The exhaust vent is identical in size and construction as a clothes dryer exhaust vent. A minimum of 12-18 inches perpendicular from the wall is needed to allow the vent to be flexed while not becoming restrictive.

Now, with all that said, I like the unit. I bought it for about $[...] at [...], and drew a lot of attention while waiting at the check out. It is truly as quiet as advertised, with routine modes barely heard. The "Mega Cool" mode is the exception, being, by comparison, very noisy. But the "Mega Cool" mode is not intended for long term, routine use. The Sharp will only run an hour in that mode before automatically shifting to a quieter, less expensive setting.

The remote control is easy to read, comprehend, and use. Good tactile design. Of particular note, when the unit is not being used, Sharp thoughtfully provided a hook in a recess on the back of the unit for the remote to be stored.

I look forward to putting the Sharp CV-P10MC Portable Air Conditioner to work this summer. It is an attractive, and, I hope, a capable appliance. It would have been nice, though, to have had a better picture of the installation and operational requirements associated with it's use.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars More like 3000 BTU and not as quiet :(, August 10, 2008

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Pinkhat - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sharp CV-P10MC 9,500 BTU Portable Air Conditioner

I should've written this review a couple of months ago as it's almost mid August already... Anyway, for what it's worth:

We've been wanting to buy a portable unit for sometime now and, based on the reviews we read online, we decided to give this Sharp portable A/C a try.

The day before we got it, though, we were at HomeDepot and noticed that someone had just returned a Delonghi portable A/C...

We installed the Sharp on a very humid day. That night the temp in our bedroom was 84F and the humidity was atrocious. We turned the unit on two hours before bed time and closed the door, just like we've always done with the window A/C.

First thing we noticed: it really isn't "library quiet" at all.

Second thing we noticed: this portable 9500 BTU A/C could not bring the room temp down to a comfortable 74F in two hours like our 6000 BTU window unit (also a Sharp, btw) would do. Actually the portable unit only cooled the room down to 80F (just 4F in two hours!).

Third thing we noticed: you can hear water trickling inside the unit, which can be rather annoying when you are trying to get some sleep in a not so cool room with a portable A/C that cost you a small fortune yet cannot perform as well as a humble $130 window unit...

So we turned the damned thing off, brought two fans from downstairs and opened the windows. Aha.

We returned the Sharp CV-P10MC next day.

A few more things worth mentioning:

*** Whatever you do, DO NOT (I repeat DO NOT) use the weather stripping that comes with the A/C. If you do, you will find out that it's almost impossible to remove that horrendously sticky crap from your window frames. Goof Off® helped, but it was a royal PITA.

*** It will collect quite a bit of water during operation. We ran it for about five hours and the reservoir was already full.

*** This A/C may work better in dry climates. In very humid climates, this thing does not perform well.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Quiet!!! FIVE STARS if Bucketless Design works as advertised..., March 26, 2007

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Bob (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sharp CV-P10MC 9,500 BTU Portable Air Conditioner

(3 stars for quiet design, 2 more stars if it will remove condensation via the vent hose and not require a bucket or water draining during AC operation)
(3/29/07 update: Ran the Sharp for 3+ hours and the unit expelled most of the condensate out the vent hose as the internal tank only had 2-3 ounces of water collected.)
Picked up the Sharp CV-P10MC 10,000BTU @ Costco recently however the weather has not been warm enough here in the NW to thoroughly test the unit out yet.
The unit is indeed very quiet however I'm concerned that it may require regular draining of collected condensed water during AC operation as my short 30 minute test collected 4-5 ounces of water. (I have a Windchaser portable AC unit that never seems to collect more a few drops and never stopped because it needed draining or required draining)

Sharps manual states it removes up to 60 pints of water a day in Dehumidification mode only, which requires regular draining of the internal collection tank (4-5pint capacity) or the attachment of an external bucket for longer uninterrupted operation.
In AC mode, Sharp's website and manual states:
"Bucketless Design. No water tank to empty.
The built in condensate disposal system sends the water out of the exhaust hose. "
"This air conditioner evaporates water condensed during cooling operation within the unit through the exhaust air outlet. Although water flowing sound way be heard, this is normal."

I assume the Sharp AC unit will not require and external water collection bucket or internal water tank draining when run in AC mode only.
My Windchaser portable AC unit (purchased last year)never once needed any condensate water drained during the whole season. The Windchaser manual states that it removes the condensed water through the air vent hose via an evaporation process that also cools the internal compressor unit. I assume this is the same type of process Sharp is referring to in its manual however the proof is in real life use.

To anyone who has used the Sharp portable AC unit last season; Please report back and let us know if it removes condensate water via the vent hose in AC mode and DOES NOT require you to stop the unit to drain water on a regular basis or require an external water collection bucket.

Thanks!