Hello there, I'm thinking to have a portable air con but not sure about the quality of it.

1 ) Can portable air con function like normal wall attached air con ?
2 ) Does portable air con lasts long ?
3 ) Any suggestion for the brand ? price ?

Thanks !

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This post has been edited by werty415: Jul 13 2014, 08:33 AM

i got 2 unit of this, 1 is midea 1.5hp and the other 1 is pensonic 1.0hp

1 ) Can portable air con function like normal wall attached air con ?
it does function like wall aircond but noisy, its like opening your car aircond blower at max setting

2 ) Does portable air con lasts long ?
currently using it almost 2year, still good

3 ) Any suggestion for the brand ? price ?
brand...hmmmm, not so much review of this , so i dont know which brand is good, but the price is from 999 - 1800 and the hp is from 1.0 - 1.5

what to ask...the portable air-cond power consumption same with wall mount air-cond??
1.0hp vs 1.0hp

Yea thanks for all these. It is very helpful ! does it consume much if electricity ?

yea i would like to know it too

This post has been edited by werty415: May 26 2014, 02:27 PM

i didnt have any wall mounted air-cond so i cant compare,
but my electric bill when up +rm70/month using the 1.0hp in a not so seal room

air cond on 10pm-5am daily
temp set to 26 deg c ( but strangely the air cond seldomly achieve this temp )
2 adult 1 child
room area ~22m square

the unit is quit big and heavy + it come with a big vent host , so that you can vent the hot air outside

hope this help,

law of thermodynamic - conservation of energy

you must remember that the heat must go somewhere

usually it just blast the hot air at the back
useless indoor

use only if next to a vent like beside a window or a door

This most people forget about. It is like you have a fridge. You open the fridge door. Will your kitchen get cooler? Nope

Thanks for the details the big vent host can bring the hot air outside the room ? like this ?

where you put the output ?

bro but according to the member, there's a ducting hose to let the heat go outside of the room. what do you think ?


This post has been edited by werty415: May 26 2014, 10:36 PM

the ducting hose is used to channel the hot air outside, the outside wont come through the vent during its operational, because there's always a constant hot air flow outside.

in the picture, the white plastic panel at the end of the hose is the accessories that come with the air-cond,
but you must check as my second unit does not have that accessories.

my room window is not like in the picture - one big glass ; but the old one; multiple sheet of glass
so i just take out one glass sheet and place the end of the vent there,

i used polystyrene board ; make a hole the size of the vent end port ; and cut the board to the size of my window and fit it there.

hope its help

This post has been edited by azlansani: May 27 2014, 08:10 AM

Yes that is true. The portable air-con has a hose for this specific purpose. Hot air blown out from the hose has to be isolated from the room/space you want to cool. If not, just wasting electricity.

Yes that is true. The portable air-con has a hose for this specific purpose. Hot air blown out from the hose has to be isolated from the room/space you want to cool. If not, just wasting electricity. In case of the fridge, the isolation is the fridge door. The air inside the fridge is cold at the expense of your kitchen (and you while cooking in kitchen )

bro but according to the member, there's a ducting hose to let the heat go outside of the room. what do you think ?

another thing about portable aircond you have to prepare some cups or mangkuk for the dripping water, in my moms house it will drip alot of water and fill the mangkuk after 30 mins, i solved this by getting an aquarium hose and extending outside the house.

another thing about portable aircond you have to prepare some cups or mangkuk for the dripping water, in my moms house it will drip alot of water and fill the mangkuk after 30 mins, i solved this by getting an aquarium hose and extending outside the house.

I see . What is the age of your air con bro ? brand ? quite troublesome right ?

its Mdea brand, Not sure if it depends on the humidity of the house, but you can normally see some split unit aircond they have a water outlet pipe right?
Portable aircond have that too but it just drips behind it.

I see, maybe the pipe is loose ? other than that, Is it still functioning well ? t

kimsim

I have a Hesstar 1.0HP one. Have been using it for nearly 4 yrs. It says 'auto-evaporate water, no need drainage', but after about 1.5 yrs, the small PVC plate provided to put at the drip hose (sticks out about an inch) gets full very fast after turning the unit off. So I just bought a rubber hose from hardware shop and extend the drip hose to my bathroom.

As for the exhaust hose mounting, I just grab a piece of plywood about the size of a multisheet glass and fix them in after cutting a hole to fit the hose.

And one more thing, this unit needs the usual cleaning like wall-mounted split units (inside, not just the filters) when the wind felt weak. I was fed up after asking few contractors because they said never cleaned this type before so not interested to do the job. The HQ says need to deliver the unit to them for cleaning service, but that things is darn heavy... So I decided to dismantle the covers and clean the inside myself. Did it twice already. So far so good. Save some $$ too.

Which Midea unit you have? It suppose to have an evaporator built in and it suppose to auto switch off when the water level is full. If your unit have this feature and it is still dripping water then you need to go claim warranty.

http://www.midea.com/my/consumer/air_condi...227_53915.shtml

Hey man , thank you so much for your details ! it helps. Update us here if there's anything new

Where can buy those

I saw them from SenQ and Senheng.

Im wondering which one is more power saving? Portable 1.0hp or normal 1.0hp.

Got no idea, but the portable one requires normal socket .

Quadpost

This post has been edited by gogocan: Sep 4 2015, 11:14 PM

quadpost

This post has been edited by gogocan: Sep 4 2015, 11:15 PM

I wonder why up until now, no big name like samseng, hitachi toshiba come with portble aircond?only those ayam brand like MEC / i brand / midea produce such technology? Or is it a scam?

My electric bill is around RM80~RM85, one of my housemate has this portable AC. He uses for around 8H/day.

My bill now is around RM120~RM130.

Sharing my experience..

I got 1 midea portable aircond.. 1hp.. Seems like the normal wall mounted aircond save more electricity than the portable 1. The main issue with the portable aircond is the noise produced and hot air not properly dissipated outside the room thru the hot air duct which will cause the aircond work harder to cool down the air.

hihihihi. air-cond and fridge works differently, bro.

Actually both work the same way. Fridge removes heat inside the fridge to outside of the fridge. Aircon removes heat inside of a room to outside of the room. So, if you want to use your fridge as air-con, you just need to make sure the fridge body is outside the room completely

The size of the rubber hose?
Can the water be channelled to higher window or it's gravitational? Mine is Hesstar HAC-AE90. Thanks.

This post has been edited by aq4912: Sep 1 2016, 05:07 PM

my dad has one. (floor mounted)
He works in an ice factory, where he scrapes extra unusable ice (damaged/dropped on floor) sometimes
into a plastic bag and brings home to pour into the water inlet,
makes it more cooler

This post has been edited by lunatique: Sep 1 2016, 05:36 PM

This thing inefficient and is a waste of electricity due to its design

It uses the room cold air to cool down its hot condenser coil and compressor, the heat is then thrown out as hot air. Means cold air in the room also get thrown outside used for cooling compressor and hot condenser coil. Only half gets back in the room.

A split unit hot condenser and compressor is cooled by blower fan of the outdoor unit. No wastage of using cool air in the room to cool compressor down. Cool air remains in the room, faster cooling more efficient.

This post has been edited by Mea Culpa: Sep 2 2016, 01:03 AM

Wah, you necro my post... And your unit is the same as mine.

Anyway, the water rubber hose size is about 1/4', I think. Can't remember as I don't use it anymore. The water outlet is just a drainage, so of course it is governed by gravity. You go decide how to get rid of that water lor... good luck.

It is very noisy .. For me not worth it