Quietest portable air conditioning units?

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Well chaps, Summer will be upon us soon and for those who live in older stuffy buildings with a lot of active gadgets in our rooms, it is a time of pain, suffering and sleeplessness.

This summer for my bedroom in my one-floor rented apartment (so no split unit installations) I want to buy a portable air con refrigeration unit to cool my room that is as quiet as can be feasibly bought.

On my list to look at so far are:

  • LG
  • De Longhi

So if anyone has any good recommendations it would be much appreciated. :)
 
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Richdog, if you find a unit with a decent length exhaust pipe please let me know! They all seem to come with 1 metre or less and you're not really allowed to extend them. I'm in a loft so it needs to reach up to the rooflight windows.
 
Richdog said:
Through the window, like with pretty much any portable air conditioning unit.
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IIRC that will affect how efficently it works (having the window open enough for the hose will let a lot of warm air in from outside).

I think you can get vent kits to let you basically block the window apart from where the hose is, which is worth looking at.

We've got an electrolux model from JL, which works well but it's anything but quiet, and by the time you've got it set up for any sort of use for more than a few hours at a time it's no longer portable (we're lucky in that we had an old vent hole we could use with the hose via an adaptor).
 
And also they all come with 1meter tubes just extend it. Not sure why you think you aren't meant to.
And yep just get a window kit fir like £25
 
The window kits just suck though, they really do.

What i did was make a whole in the ceiling, then pipe from there in the loft to a vent out the side of the house.

Even then the thing makes a right din, its the compressor that's the main noise.

But it does make the room nice and cold (15c).
 
Werewolf said:
IIRC that will affect how efficently it works (having the window open enough for the hose will let a lot of warm air in from outside).

I think you can get vent kits to let you basically block the window apart from where the hose is, which is worth looking at.

We've got an electrolux model from JL, which works well but it's anything but quiet, and by the time you've got it set up for any sort of use for more than a few hours at a time it's no longer portable (we're lucky in that we had an old vent hole we could use with the hose via an adaptor).
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Hi Werewolf, thanks for the advice but it's not the first time I have used a portable AC unit, so I am aware of how to effectively seal a window as best as I am able.

The "portable" aspect is the fact you can roll it into another room and do the same in there, so I have no concerns over that either. that's the point of a portable AC unit and I'm not sure why you see difficulties there.

I'm just looking for tips on the quietest models especially for when I am sleeping. :)
 
Diagro said:
If you want quiet then you have it running in a different room and pipe the cold air into your bedroom.
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I want as quiet as possible... I'm not sure why this is a difficult concept. Not all AC units are as loud as each-other, and I want the quietest possible portable unit inside my room. Those are my needs.

amigafan2003 said:
Put a unit in your loft space - it's really the only way to go.
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I live in a 1 floor apartment, so no, not the only way to go.
 
Richdog said:
I want as quiet as possible... I'm not sure why this is a difficult concept. Not all AC units are as loud as each-other, and I want the quietest possible portable unit inside my room. Those are my needs.



I live in a 1 floor apartment, so no, not the only way to go.
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Even the quietest portable A/C unit will disturb your sleep and provide very poor cooling. IMHO, portable units just aren't worth considering.

Cracking a window and a pedestal fan will be better than a portable A/C unit.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Even the quietest portable A/C unit will disturb your sleep and provide very poor cooling. IMHO, portable units just aren't worth considering.

Cracking a window and a pedestal fan will be better than a portable A/C unit.
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I have had one before (last Summer), so I know exactly what they are like and exactly how well they cool a room, so please stop being patronising with rubbish like "you'd be better off with an open window and a fan" because that is just utter, unadulterated nonsense.

The difference was I had a crappy and very noisy budget one, whereas the De Longhis and other higher end units are a good 10db quieter. That makes a huge difference.

Which is the quietest brand and model of air portable conditioner? Amazing how such a simple question spawns a slew of smart-arsed replies that don't even address the actual question asked. Gotta love GD. :D
 
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A proper portable a/c unit will have a compressor in and a refrigeration cycle hence the exhaust taking hotair out generated from the compressor. a lot of people wonder why it's blowing warm air, was just checking :)

The sound of fan motor and compressor do differ but not by a lot

If you have it in the room with the exhaust and pop it out the window, what's the point? It isn't going to condition the air, ****ing in the wind comes to mind
 
Richdog said:
I have had one before (last Summer), so I know exactly what they are like and exactly how well they cool a room, so please stop being patronising with rubbish like "you'd be better off with an open window and a fan" because that is just utter, unadulterated nonsense.

The difference was I had a crappy and very noisy budget one, whereas the De Longhis and other higher end units are a good 10db quieter. That makes a huge difference.
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Hahahaha
 
Richdog said:
Which is the quietest brand and model of air portable conditioner? Amazing how such a simple question spawns a slew of smart-arsed replies that don't even address the actual question asked. Gotta love GD. :D
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I think the point people are trying to make is that fundamentally all portable air conditioners work the same way so the range in noisiness isn't very large. You cannot have a silent or near-silent portable A/C.
 
ReltonBFD said:
A proper portable a/c unit will have a compressor in and a refrigeration cycle hence the exhaust taking hotair out generated from the compressor. a lot of people wonder why it's blowing warm air, was just checking :)

The sound of fan motor and compressor do differ but not by a lot

If you have it in the room with the exhaust and pop it out the window, what's the point? It isn't going to condition the air, ****ing in the wind comes to mind
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Who are you actually having a conversation with? Your post makes no logical sense in the context of what I have written.

ReltonBFD said:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=p...SX3G5kJNjCF44YfQ,cdl:1,cid:184872956728015011

We've used them in a call centre as emergency back up. 41db at a metre
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Woohoo, a sensible reply! Your link goes to multiple models, which one is it specifically please? :)
 
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