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57 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
First Rate, June 21, 2007
I live in an apartment with casement windows and therefore can only use portable style air conditioners. My first was a DeLonghi. It was extremely expensive, EXTREMELY heavy(a swelte 108 lbs.), and although it was 13000 btus it was unable to effectlively cool my approximately 500 sq. ft. space. In addition, it required you fill a tank with water which it used as a cooling agent to work at maximum capacity. The tank would empty on humid days within 2 hours and require a refill to work again. Obviously, if you wanted to keep the setting high overnight as you slept the unit did not work well. It broke last summer, and although I live in a major city, the nearest authorized service place was an hour away by car. After one repair, and a second breakdown right after, I had had enough. The replacement? This unit. Although it is 11,500 btus, it has already done a better job cooling my apartment than the DeLonghi EVER did. The air blows COLD. Unlike that unit and many other larger portables, this unit requires no filling OR emptying of water, and so all you have to do is switch it on and walk away. It has an LCD display on the remote so you can custom set the temperature, settings and fan speed. It's a trim unit and much lighter than many. And although someone else reviewing this product criticised the swiveling vents (which go up and down), this is actually useful in cooling the whole room, not just one area. Sure, the majority of functions are on the remote, but the unit has a holster for it, and besides, how hard is it to keep track of a remote?? Highly recommended.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Quiet! 5 Stars!, April 2, 2007
Very quiet , cools well. -Unit could have controls on it in case remote is not handy however there is a power button on the unit.
The unit will remember the last mode set with the remote when the unit's power button is used.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Extremely quiet, excellent cooling, easy to use, July 10, 2008
After reading reviews here and other online sites, I chose this Sharp portable AC over Soleus or Delonghi. I brought it home the first day of a 100 degree heat wave (in CA) and got it set up in 15 minutes. It is heavy so I required help to get it into and out of the car, but the crate was easy to unpack because once the plastic ties are removed, the top of the box slides off and you simply roll the unit off the box bottom. The casters roll easily even over the threshold, I had no problems positioning it where I wanted it. The unit looks very sleek and blends into the room.
Getting the window frame adapter installed took about 10 minutes. After that, it was simply snap on the hose on both ends, plug in and turn on! The store advised we wait 1-2 hours after transporting to start the unit, since tilting it could disturb the coolant.
Our little house is a cottage and very poorly insulated, single pane windows and probably just newspaper in the walls. With this unit running, our 500 square foot house dropped from 90 degrees to 75 degrees in a few hours on mega cool. The unit pumps out a lot of air when the fan is on high, and it is VERY quiet! You can hear swishing air, but the compresser is unbelievably quiet. Compared to our old in window AC we were not even sure if this thing was running at first (other than the fan).
We've had it going for 4 days now and it is keeping even our poorly-insulated house pleasantly cool with external temps above 95 degrees. We installed the unit on the sunny side of the house but since this unit exhausts hot air but pulls the intake air from your house it doesn't seem to affect performance if it is installed on the sunny side of the house. I also consider this a more efficient design, since the air inside the house will be cooler after some time running, so you are recycling the cooled air rather than drawing in hotter air from outside.
We plan to wrap the hose with insulation (sold for air ducts) to make the unit even more efficient. The hose is long enough that we have the unit about 3' to the right of our window and the hose reaches fine. If you needed to place it further away, you could easily extend the hose with a dryer exhaust hose sold at hardware stores. The hose rises straight up out the back of the unit so it can be pushed back right up to the wall.
The remote is easy to use.
Overall, this is an excellent if expensive unit, and quiet enough to leave running while we sleep.
Editing to add: We've had the unit about a month now and we're very pleased, it not only kept us cool during the extreme heat wave, but with all the forest fires burning in California this summer our air was very bad and my allergies were awful. We kept this unit running with the air cleaner even when it was not cooling and it kept our indoor air healthy and clean. My allergies from the smoke went away after running this for a couple of days. Now that the heat wave has passed we have used it as an air filter on windy days when my allergies cat up, and I suspect it will be very useful as a dehumidifier in our damp rainy winter season, too.
This unit is very quiet on cool and fan settings, the air filter makes a low whooshing noise which I actually like for sleeping.
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