Honeywell Portable Air Conditioner 9000 BTU | Energy Efficient 3-in-1 Air Conditioning Unit | 3 Fan Speeds, LCD Display, Remote Control, 24Hr Timer | Aircon For Rooms Up to 26m²

Product Information

Cooling is the primary job of the Honeywell MM14CCS 14,000 BTU, and it accomplishes without sweating the task. It consistently took my room temperature down ten degrees when asked and it doesn't require much maintenance or space compared to other portable air conditioners. Like an accordion, there's a single exhaust hose that extends. It's 5 inches in diameter and stretches up to almost 5 feet in length to reach a nearby window. It's not the most eye-pleasing tube, but there's a window venting kit that acts as a panel-like attachment that's easy to install and sits in an slightly ajar window. You’d be hard-pressed to market most air conditioners as a hipster lifestyle accessory, but that’s how America’s EcoFlow pitch the Wave 2. Boasting Lamborghini-style spoilers and slats, it’s a handsome and genuinely portable model that weighs about the same as a piece of carry-on luggage.

What size air conditioner you opt for depends on a variety of factors, one of them being the price you're willing to pay. When it comes to cooling your home, the air conditioner you choose will come down to the size of the room needing to be cooled and how hot the space you're planning on cooling is (from factors such as computers and people). Standard portable air conditioners are easy to use, allowing you to circulate cool air throughout the home. That said, some products come with extra features that can make them more convenient and user-friendly: Portable Air Conditioners require you to vent the exhaust through an open window using the supplied hose. All air cons produce heat that needs to be removed from the room you want to cool. We supply a range of window kits and extension hoses to make venting the excess heat even easier.

What is the best portable air conditioner?

It is also worth considering the cost of running your air conditioner; it soon adds up over the summer months. Power consumption will vary depending on the cooling capacity of the unit, but make sure you take these additional electricity costs into account. How do portable air conditioners work? Besides cooling, this particular model has dehumidification, up to 95 pints every 24 hours. It also uses an auto-evaporation system so that I didn't have to drain water from it every few days. In fact, I haven't had to drain the water more a few times over the course of my seven-week test. Timers keep the portable air conditioner on for a set period of time. Once it reaches the end of this period, it will automatically shut off instead of running all day, which helps keep electricity costs low. Getting the AEG unit set up was easy (except for the bit where we carried it from the street to the apartment; at 30kg it's very heavy!). However, if you do decide to use a portable air conditioner, there are things you can do to make it more efficient:

Air quality. Some air conditioners have filters to remove allergens and mould from the air. HEPA is the highest filtration standard here. Many also double as dehumidifiers and some have a heating function, making them useful in winter as well as summer. Chris Roth, CEO and owner of National Technical Institute for insights on selecting the best air conditioner for your home We've tested portable air conditioners from a range of popular brands, including AEG, Argos own-brand Challenge, DeLonghi and ElectriQ. Continue reading for tips on how to choose the best portable AC unit for your space, and find out how the models we tested performed. Portable units tend to be cheaper and bulkier, but if your house needs cooling in multiple rooms during the summer they can be carried from room to room. A portable air conditioner is perfect for home use in the UK. What is the best portable air conditioner?The digital control is really clear and easy to use, with three modes - air conditioning, fan and dehumidifier. You can select the fan speed and choose to have maximum or medium power or to make the unit silent. During the testing of this unit, we really loved the sleek design, plus it was one of the easier units to wheel around from room to room despite its heavy weight of 72 pounds. The LED display was very intuitive and easy to use and read. When cooling an 80 degree Fahrenheit room, it brought the temperature down in our 600-square-foot living space in under an hour, making it one of the more powerful units on our list. The only downside is that the vent is on the top of this unit, which makes it hard to direct the airflow and is therefore not as easily adjustable as some other units.