Information on Portable Air Conditioners
Portable Air Conditioners provide several substantial benefits
in cooling that are not available with other types of air conditions.
The 1st advantage is that they are portable
(duh). Because of this, they can readily be moved from location to location as
needed. This can be an advantage if Aunt Louise comes to stay for a few weeks
and her guest room needs to be cooled subsequently, the Air Conditioner can be
moved back into the Living Room for supplemental cooling.
Another, lateral advantage is that of flexibility. By this we
mean that, if a bedroom has a window into which a regular, window air
conditioner is installed that bedroom window is now out of use for the
season. If the weather cools down and you wish to open that window to help
provide a cross breeze you be out of luck.
However, if you are using a Portable Air Conditioner, the
Portable Air Conditioner can be exhausted out the bedroom window as normal
(installing the exhaust bracket into a regular double-hung window typically
takes a few minutes). Then, if the weather cools down, the window can be opened
and the window bracket can be removed and voila! in the course of a minute
you can have the use of that window to let in a cooling breeze. Aaaahhh
..
A Portable Air Conditioner also enables cooling of areas that
normally cant be air conditioned. In my house we have a finished basement and
there is no way none to use a regular window or thru-the-wall air
conditioner. However, by installing the duct hose outside with a dryer vent, we
are able to use two Portable Air Conditioners that also provide the benefits of
dehumidifiers. This latter benefit is due to the fact that moisture is being
removed from the air. Of course, a dehumidifier returns hot air to a (basement)
environment the Portable Air Conditioner provides the added benefit of cooling
that environment!
One substantial, historical disadvantage to a Portable Room
Air Conditioner is that the unit typically collects the water removed from the
air into an internal reservoir. This reservoir needs to be constantly emptied
routinely as much as every several hours. This can be a huge annoyance
especially if the unit is used in a night-time bedroom setting and beeps the
unfortunate sleeper awake every few hours.
However, at least one industry-leading Portable Air
Conditioner the Plasma Cool features a patented Nano-Mist technology whereby
the water is atomized and removed along with the warm air thru the duct
hose. Thus, this unit simply does not require the routine emptying of the
reservoir!
Most units provide only 10,000 BTU or less of cooling
power. The Plasma Cool is the only 110V unit featuring 12,000 BTU of awesome
cooling power, and the venting system enables the cool air to be elevated so
that there is no concentrated stream of cold air blowing directly onto room
occupants.
Thats it a condensed primer on Portable Room Air
Conditioners! For further information click on our links for Suggestions on
Portable Room Air Conditioners or on Portable Room Air Conditioner Products to
select a model.
