What Ac what y’all Recommend

[TacoMac]

You can pay up front with a mini split or you're gonna pay for it with electricity. Of course do what your budget allows, but mini split is a better choice.

Now you're just being ridiculous.

Your 12,000 BTU split unit takes 1,333 watts to run.

The 8000 BTU window unit takes 650 watts to run wide open.

The average cost of electricity in the U.S. is 12 cents per kilowatt hour.

So, to run your unit 12 hours per day cost 57.59 per month to run. The window unit costs 28.08.

You could, quite literally, run the 8000 btu window AC 24 hours a day for the same cost you do for half a day to accomplish the same exact job.

 

[Digger47]

Now you're just being ridiculous.

Your 12,000 BTU split unit takes 1,333 watts to run.

The 8000 BTU window unit takes 650 watts to run wide open.

The average cost of electricity in the U.S. is 12 cents per kilowatt hour.

So, to run your unit 12 hours per day cost 57.59 per month to run. The window unit costs 28.08.

You could, quite literally, run the 8000 btu window AC 24 hours a day for the same cost you do for half a day to accomplish the same exact job.

The ridiculous part is that you think an 8k window shaker is gonna cool a 15x15 living room, let alone a 15x15 with a grow room in it.

 

[TacoMac]

The ridiculous part is that you think an 8k window shaker is gonna cool a 15x15 living room, let alone a 15x15 with a grow room in it.

It will. With ease.

You are acting like he's trying to cool down an entire 1200 square foot ground floor to a temperature of 70 degrees.

That's not what he's doing. All he needs to do is keep a 225 square foot room, which is very, very small to a temperature of 75 to 80 degrees. He's also running 315 cmh lights that don't produce god-awful amounts of heat. He's running, in effect, 4 600 watt HPS lights in it. That's it. The 8000 btu unit would easily cool it down enough to be just fine. (that I run one in a bigger area and it shuts off every 20 minutes is sort of not the point, but then again it sort of is.)

But do keep on drama queening like you have the first clue what you're talking about.

 

[Renfro]

It will. With ease.

You are acting like he's trying to cool down an entire 1200 square foot ground floor to a temperature of 70 degrees.

That's not what he's doing. All he needs to do is keep a 225 square foot room, which is very, very small to a temperature of 75 to 80 degrees. He's also running 315 cmh lights that don't produce god-awful amounts of heat. He's running, in effect, 4 600 watt HPS lights in it. That's it. The 8000 btu unit would easily cool it down enough to be just fine. (that I run one in a bigger area and it shuts off every 20 minutes is sort of not the point, but then again it sort of is.)

But do keep on drama queening like you have the first clue what you're talking about.

I am sorry but I have a room about the same size with no lights in it and I can't keep it cool with two tons when it's 100 outside!

 

[Renfro]

To the OP, if you go with a 8k BTU AC unit, be prepared to buy another one or two. lol

 

[Cesar300_]

With a descent 2 ton minisplit properly installed I guarantee that he will be happy. Anything short of that and I wouldn't be recommending it as unhappiness is probable IMO.

yes im running my lights from 5pm to 11 am they are off for 6 hours. Here in the bay areas temperatures are like in the 70s if we talking about summer temperatures they can exceed in the 70-88 . Not cold or hot here in the bay tbh pretty neutral . If I go with 1.5 ton how much you think it would be ? including labor? heard things are pretty complicated to install

 

[Mullalulla]

yes im running my lights from 5pm to 11 am they are off for 6 hours. Here in the bay areas temperatures are like in the 70s if we talking about summer temperatures they can exceed in the 70-88 . Not cold or hot here in the bay tbh pretty neutral . If I go with 1.5 ton how much you think it would be ? including labor? heard things are pretty complicated to install

find a place like @enviroairsystems on IG .. I am sure there are some mechanical contractors doing just this somewhere around you ... that is if your in a legal area, I probably should have read the entire thread my bad

-edit went back and read .. I am running 6 315 cmh's 1 70 pint dehumid in a sealed room. I have a 2 ton 20 seer LG unit. Might have been over kill ? It works very well. But where I am it doesnt get very cold in the winter, but some times when it gets below 32 .. like mid to upper 20's it has a tuff time cooling. Im not sure if this is mini split specific or ..

 

[Apalchen]

I have heard that each 315 needs 1000btu which leads me to believe that an 18k btu mini would be sufficient but if u got the money go 24k btu inverter mini split. The nice thing about inverter mini split is they don't short cycle they can ramp up and down to meet the needs of the room.
Also I believe that 1000btu per light wouldn't leave room for the heatload of the room or other things in the room which is why I said atleast 18k btu.

 

[Apalchen]

As the poster above me mentioned make sure to get a unit that will run low ambient cooling, the daikin 19 series will do that but you have to cut a jumper inside the outside unit to put it into facility mode it's not hard at all I have the manual somewhere if that's the route u decide to go I can post a picture and info on what jumper to cut.