best indoor air conditioner

[MWgrower]

hello all,

I am working on a new setup and am looking for input on what air conditioning unit to go with. I have two seperate rooms and am planning on having a unit for each. Right now I am only purchasing on for the smaller rooms, as my kids wont need the big space for another 2 months:

18ftX10ftX8ft

Right on I plan on getting a stand alone unit, but dont know a whole lot about the cooling process. Could somebody give me some input/point me in the right direction of some information to brush up on?

 

[Montanarobert1963]

With a stand alone unit it needs to be vented. The one I purchased from HD was 289.00 and cools my space which is close to yours. I has a 5 inch venting duct which I had already had an opening for....6 inch anyway. The heat that vents out the duck was around 100 degrees that I measured.

 

[DemonTrich]

I use an LG 8000btu portable for my 5x10x7 tent. I made an intake tube attatched to the a/c unit to direct cold air into my fresh air intake. I ran the exhaust out my window as well. I used 6" exhaust ducting.

 

[Nullis]

What kind of ducting did you use exactly? I have an LG portable AC, the ducting that comes with the window installation kit doesn't seem to be a standard size (though I think 6" would technically work), is cheap, and needs replacing. They don't even sell the installation kits anywhere I know of, except thru mail order/online parts distributors and it is kind of asinine.

 

[Rrog]

Mini-split is overkill?

 

[Montanarobert1963]

What kind of ducting did you use exactly? I have an LG portable AC, the ducting that comes with the window installation kit doesn't seem to be a standard size (though I think 6" would technically work), is cheap, and needs replacing. They don't even sell the installation kits anywhere I know of, except thru mail order/online parts distributors and it is kind of asinine.

First off my room is in the basement so I had to change the way they recommend to vent through the window. I used 6 inch drier duct and secured it to the 5 inch that is on the AC and vented it out through the new hole with lovered cover on it to the outside

 

[Montanarobert1963]

First off my room is in the basement so I had to change the way they recommend to vent through the window. I used 6 inch drier duct and secured it to the 5 inch that is on the AC and vented it out through the new hole with lovered cover on it to the outside

Also I forgot to mention I bought everything at both Home Depot or Lowes

 

[DemonTrich]

here ya go. works perfectly. this was at my old house. this set up used a 6" 440cfm fan to "help" the hot air thru the 40' of 6" ducting then out of my basement window.
note: I don't recommend putting a fan there like I did. the bearings burnt up in about 5 months and the fan seized on me.

currently I use the same setup as in the pic below. but now I don't use the 6" 440cfm fan, and only run it to about 20' of 6" ducting, then thru a dryer vent out my basement window. I have no problems with any exhaust flow. my LG unit has been working flawlessly on 12-12 for almost 18 months now. I did buy a 5 yr replacement warranty on the unit. which ran me 199.99 plus 299.99 for the unit itself. I like warranties. I even have a 5 yr warranty (499.99) on my 55" plasma tv (free replacement if anything goes wrong, minus screen cracking)

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[Rrog]

Very cool (no pun) to see so many raving about that LG. Cheap enough, that's for sure.