I'm looking for a very small air conditioner to take a bit of heat out
of a small room...about 8' x 8' w 6-1/2' ceiling. I'm just looking to
replace the fan that's in there now (it bothers my eyes).

Physical size is important, and there's no 220v outlet nearby.

Any ideas?

"_DD" wrote in message
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I'm looking for a very small air conditioner to take a bit of heat out
of a small room...about 8' x 8' w 6-1/2' ceiling. I'm just looking to
replace the fan that's in there now (it bothers my eyes).

Physical size is important, and there's no 220v outlet nearby.

Any ideas?

A store? I got mine at Walmart.

yeah wallmart or home depot, small 4000 or under btu are cheap, and
lightweight too

Go shopping

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:02:55 -0500, (m Ransley)
wrote:

Go shopping

Thanks so much for taking your time to post that. I wouldn't have
asked if I hadn't gone shopping and failed to find anything that fit
that description that you probably didn't read.

On 21 Apr 2006 04:58:48 -0700, "
wrote:

yeah wallmart or home depot, small 4000 or under btu are cheap, and
lightweight too

Thanks for the followup, Hallerb.

Another possibility is that no one makes anything that will be small
enough to fit. This is intended for a very small area, and it's not
near a window, so I'll have to pipe the warm air out into the main
room. That in itself is no big deal. The lack of a window to mount
the thing is, though.

I haven't run across any 4000 btu units except for floor-standing
units, which unfortunately won't work. There's this one at WalMart:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=4456962
but it looks too big. According to their site:
Product in Inches (L x W x H): 122732.0 x 17932.0 x 11532.0
Maybe that's off by an inch or two. g (I think that's about 2 miles
wide). Hard to tell what the size really is but it looks too big (and
it's 45lbs). That would be the general idea if it were smaller.

I thought someone might know of a model number. I'll keep shopping.

"_DD" wrote in message
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Thanks so much for taking your time to post that. I wouldn't have
asked if I hadn't gone shopping and failed to find anything that fit
that description that you probably didn't read.

Well, considering the fact that you didn't provide enough information for
someone to help you, one might wonder who really is the clueless one in this
conversation...

Other information that might have been useful:
--max size of window opening (width and height)
--power supply availability near the window (it's not good enough to say
what is NOT there, one should say what IS there)
--wall construction (brick, siding, etc) if installing a new opening for the
air-conditioner might be an option
--whether a portable air-conditioner might be acceptable instead of a window
unit
http://www.air-n-water.com/product/ALW12000E.html

If you have a water supply and drainage for the water, there are some
portable units that use water from a tap / faucet to cool the unit instead
of relying on a fan and outside air...

Grumman-581 wrote:

If you have a water supply and drainage for the water, there are some
portable units that use water from a tap / faucet to cool the unit instead
of relying on a fan and outside air...

Who makes 'em? Can we pump the water back into the hot water faucet?

Nick

wrote in message
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Who makes 'em? Can we pump the water back into the hot water faucet?

Don't remember who makes them... I remember seeing an ad for them a couple
of years ago when I was looking for another an air-conditioner that was
powered by an engine instead of electricity... The one I saw expected to
dump the water back into the drain... Basically, instead of using air to
cool the compressor and such, it used water and dumped the water
elsewhere... Kind of a miniature version of the geothermal heat pumps that I
had in my previous house, I guess... If so, then the water coming out is not
necessarily warm enough for showers and such, but might be acceptable as the
source of the 'cold' water for your hot water heater... Of course, you
would have to figure out something with regards to the pressure since I do
not believe that there is a water pump in the unit (i.e. it only relies on
the cold water inlet pressure to move it through the system)... As such,
since the hot water faucet is at the same pressure as the cold water faucet,
it wouldn't go anywhere...

Walmart 5000 btu unit. 120V. Compact size. $100 i believe.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=3387585


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Steve Barker

"_DD" wrote in message
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I'm looking for a very small air conditioner to take a bit of heat out
of a small room...about 8' x 8' w 6-1/2' ceiling. I'm just looking to
replace the fan that's in there now (it bothers my eyes).

Physical size is important, and there's no 220v outlet nearby.

Any ideas?

On 22 Apr 2006 09:32:09 -0400, wrote:

Grumman-581 wrote:

If you have a water supply and drainage for the water, there are some
portable units that use water from a tap / faucet to cool the unit instead
of relying on a fan and outside air...

Who makes 'em? Can we pump the water back into the hot water faucet?


Sounds vaguely like Burnham's Duo-Rad or Duo-Rad-2
convectors, which are actually intended to be part
of a closed system, pumping water to a chiller
located elsewhere.

The (other) cool thing about them is that if you
hook up a couple of valves, you can switch the
thing to run hot water in the winter, and it doubles
as a radiator.