It's too hot :(
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Soldato
I'm currently sitting quite happily in my lounge at 21c
Nice one!
Are they expensive to purchase / run /install?
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Yeah I'm wondering this also... as well as:
- If your house isn't massive is it feasible that one proper external aircon unit can cool the whole house? (obviously not as well as having multiple would, but good enough to be worth it?)
- Assuming the above, where is the best place to position one? Upper floor? Lower floor? Does it matter?
- Can you use ducting or similar to run from the outside to the unit, if it isn't installed directly on the opposite site of the wall as in the pic above?
Cost £500ish and fitted it my self.
It costs considerably less to run than I thought it would as being an inverter unit it uses less or more power depending on the ambient temp.
In June it used £3.80 electricity and so far this month I've used £2.82.
It's a 12000 BTU unit so can only cool the living room really. To cool your entire house would be considerably more expensive.
We currently have a portable unit in the bedroom which is 8000 BTU, very noisy, uses 900w constantly and probably is really only about 5000 BTU by the time you take into account the hot air it sucks into the room and the cool air it exhausts out.
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Geez it’s hot. Thunderstorms tonight apparently. Now forecast for 36C in Thursday. That is hot.
65mm hole. Probably could have done with a 70mm.
Here's pic of outside:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/d8EkyYcVezUuEbNy9
That actually looks pretty smart. Nice work!
Which direction does the hot air blow from the device on the shed? Out the left hand side away from the brick work?
Love my flat in this weather. It's the ground floor on the north side of a semi. It almost feels like I have aircon as it's so cool. Complete opposite to my last one which was south facing and first floor. It was like a furnace anything above 20C
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But then do you find it a lot colder come winter?
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Nice work
Have to admit to not having really looked into this properly before, but now that I do... the only thing running from external to internal unit is hoses carrying refrigerant back and forth right? (and power presumably for the external unit)? In my head for some reason I'd always imagined there was ducting carrying air to the outside (but now that I think about it I can see that makes no sense!)...I was kind of hoping maybe I could get an external unit that splits to multiple indoor ones and maybe put one on the top floor landing (3 storey town-house) and one in the hallway, and that somehow between them they'd condition air up the centre of the house that would spill into the other rooms (maybe I wouldn't get ice-cold temperatures everywhere but it'd be a lot cooler than it currently is)... but as I read up on it more that seems like it wouldn't work at all... then if I try to think of a single room or even a pair of rooms I'd want to be conditioned it's really hard to choose which!!!
Yep but that's what heating and extra layers are for!
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Exactly the same as mine, I don't even bother opening the windows most of the time
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Sat outside the office on deckchairs at lunch, warm, but breezy so livable.
Not looking forward to the no-air-con train home, or walking up the hill to the house in this heat!
Not looking forward to the no-air-con train home, or walking up the hill to the house in this heat!
Caporegime
Do Corsair make AIO coolers for humans? Preferably with RGB.
Nice work
I was kind of hoping maybe I could get an external unit that splits to multiple indoor ones and maybe put one on the top floor landing (3 storey town-house) and one in the hallway, and that somehow between them they'd condition air up the centre of the house that would spill into the other rooms (maybe I wouldn't get ice-cold temperatures everywhere but it'd be a lot cooler than it currently is)... but as I read up on it more that seems like it wouldn't work at all... then if I try to think of a single room or even a pair of rooms I'd want to be conditioned it's really hard to choose which!!!
You have the 2 refrigerant lines, power for outside unit and drainage line coming out the wall.
You can buy units that have 3 evaporators running from them.
Also the unit blows the hot air away from the shed.
