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Whirlpool Portable Air Conditioner - ACPE102PS Review

Could be a lot better

"The unit is reasonably quiet and very easy to setup (read all the directions.) You simply open up your window and put the vent adapter in the window and close the window.



BUT, there are a few issues here.



First of all, it is absolutely horrible at distributing air across a room. I have a studio apartment with approximately 400 sq feet and I cannot seem to get the entire room to cool down. I can get part of the room to cool down, but I needed to use fans to get the air moving around my reasonably small apartment.



The second issue is that the fan runs constantly. The compressor doesn't always run, but the fan does, and that can get annoying. I guess it is good 'white noise' but if you need a silent AC unit that will stop running when it is done cooling you need to look elsewhere.



The third issue is that is that it just isn't designed to 'quickly' cool your room. It even says so in the manual. It is meant to 'gradually' cool your room by pulling as much air as possible through the unit.



Of course, if the heat outside is very high air is going to be leaking through the plastic window adapter faster than this thing is going to be cooling your room. I had to go out and buy more insulation from Lowes because of the very small quantity that comes with the unit for my large vertical window. Expect to use a LOT of tape to seal off air.



If you can, stick with a window unit. But if that isn't possible you'll have to make do with these units."