The Best Portable Air Conditioners - Reviews by YBD
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Publicado 2018-11-01
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The Whynter - ARC-122DS Elite is the best portable air conditioner for blazing summer heat waves.
See it on Amazon: geni.us/Whynter122DS
Or at Home Depot: homedepot.sjv.io/zDxy0
The LG 12,000 BTU is the best portable air conditioner for more moderate climates.
See it on Amazon: geni.us/LG2018
Or at Home Depot: homedepot.sjv.io/neXNV
We spent three summers researching and testing eight different portable air conditioners. We used them in bedrooms, living rooms and offices. We tested in controlled conditions using space heaters, and also in real summer heat waves.
If you have a slide-down window that can fit a window air conditioner, install one of those instead: www.yourbestdigs.com/reviews/best-window-air-condi…
Many of us can’t install window units, though, either because we have slider windows or because of fire code. If you’re about to suffer through one more increasingly hot summer without relief, a portable unit can help.
Index:
1:41 - Why should you get a portable AC?
3:02 - Single vs. dual-hose units
4:57 - How many BTUs do you need?
6:32 - How we selected finalists to test
7:17 - How we tested
9:05 - The best single-hose portable: LG - 12,000 BTU
10:36 - The best for heat waves: Whynter - 12,000 BTU
11:53 - The bottom line
Our picks for the best portable air conditioner:
• Whynter - ARC-122DS Elite: geni.us/Whynter122DS
• LG - LP1218GXR: geni.us/LG2018
• Whynter 14,000 BTU: geni.us/whynter14sh
• LG - 2015 model (old winner): geni.us/lg12kbtu
• Frigidaire 12,000 BTU: geni.us/FrigidairePortable
• LG - 2017 model: geni.us/LG2017
• Honeywell - 10,000 BTU: geni.us/honeywellmn10
When purchasing a portable air conditioner, the top features to consider are:
• Performance: portables aren't as efficient as window units, so make sure you're getting something that works for you
• Noise: monster-sized 14,000 BTU models are better at cooling a room, but they can be unbearable to sleep beside
• Portability: We also picked models that are lighter and easier to move around
• Controls: remotes, sleep modes, and timers go a long way to helping you use an AC more efficiently
After testing, The Whynter - ARC-122DS Elite is our pick for best portable air conditioner. Learn more at Amazon: geni.us/Whynter122DS
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Our team for this review included:
Video production: Cara Brown
Video editor: Cara Brown
Writer and host: Daniel Jackson
Managing editor: Bryan Vu
Photography: Daniel Jackson, Kimberly Lostroscio
Todos los comentarios (21)
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Our picks for the best portable air conditioner: • Whynter - ARC-122DS Elite: geni.us/Whynter122DS • LG - LP1218GXR: geni.us/LG2018 • Whynter 14,000 BTU: geni.us/whynter14sh • LG - 2015 model (old winner): geni.us/lg12kbtu • Frigidaire 12,000 BTU: geni.us/FrigidairePortable • LG - 2017 model: geni.us/LG2017 • Honeywell - 10,000 BTU: geni.us/honeywellmn10
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Bit of a cop out to just update the name to 2020 when your released it in 2018
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I live in Orlando FL, so it gets over 90 in January. One trick I did to help it was wrap insulation around the exhaust duct, that way the radiated heat could get out better.
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This video was enlightening and made me scientifically understand why my portable AC didn't seem to work as well as expected - just in time to return it!
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We bought a Heir portable AC in 2008. It is still going strong 11 years later.
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Insanely helpful and thorough. This channel needs more support.
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Thank you for your work. Every single person that wants to buy a portable unit, should watch this video. No wonder my portable device did not work. Here we get above 90 degrees almost the entire summer. It only cooled the spot where cool air comes out, but the rest of the room was same or even hotter than outside. Here we get up to 110 sometimes.
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Loved this video! I was spending hours sifting through inconclusive customer reviews which was getting me nowhere for the most part. But this video gave me actual real world results from extensive & non-bios testing. Thnx! ^^
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I have a dual hose unit and I slipped a length of duct insulation over the exhaust hose to eliminate the radiated heat coming from it. Now the room is that much cooler then before. It's amazing what a little inginuity can come up with especially when the unit is not close to the window thus exposing a lot of heat generating exhaust hose.
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Only halfway through and this is the hands-down best review video of portable ACs I have seen after seeing at least a dozen.
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watching this because its dumb hot outside in ny. i cannt afford these, but thinking about how cool my room could be is where im at rn
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"The Best Portable Air Conditioner of 2020" Video was made in 2018. Can you look into the future?
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Awesome Work! Thank you so very much for going through all these tests and sparing no expense. This was an amazing video.
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This was very helpful thank you. I was afraid I was gonna waste my money buying something that wasn't gonna work but now I'm gonna go with the LG
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Just bought an haier 14,000 BTU. it cools up to 700 sqft and works really good. It was $519 @ Lowes.
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you did a lot of work on this, kudos
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Very much appreciated the graphs and breakdowns.
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Thank you for all your hard work and great reviews.
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A little tip insulate the hose.i use reflectix insulation. Amazon, home depot or Lowes
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* It would be great if you mentioned -- For a dual-hose design - If it's significantly hotter inside than outside (like your space heater case), you can disconnect the intake hose, and run it as a single hose. So it will take inside air and reject it outside. Essentially doing the same thing as single hose. The negative pressure created means, in addition to AC cooling, the outside air pulled in passively will be cooler than inside too. So single hose has no benefit, if you do it this way :)
