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Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 12:25 pm**

Can anyone recommend a good performing mobile air cooling unit. I paid 280€ for one about 4 years ago and it doesn’t do the job (8000btu) in a small room of < 20m2

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 1:49 pm**

Are you in a stone house?

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:52 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:05 pm**

Do you close the room's door(s) and window(s) when using the unit?

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:26 pm**

MAD87 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:05 pm Do you close the room's door(s) and window(s) when using the unit?

What a daft question. More importantly is what the ceiling height is as it is the volume of air that is the deciding factor not the area of the room.

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:36 pm**

ajm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:26 pm
MAD87 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:05 pm Do you close the room's door(s) and window(s) when using the unit?
What a daft question. More importantly is what the ceiling height is as it is the volume of air that is the deciding factor not the area of the room.

Not a daft question unless one intends on trying to cool the garden. Sounds like you're suggesting it's OK to leave the fridge door open

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:49 pm**

If it’s a mobile unit you need to vent the hot air out and collect the water that it produces. The venting part can be an issue.

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 7:11 pm**

L Austin France wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:36 pm
ajm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:26 pm
MAD87 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:05 pm Do you close the room's door(s) and window(s) when using the unit?
What a daft question. More importantly is what the ceiling height is as it is the volume of air that is the deciding factor not the area of the room.
Not a daft question unless one intends on trying to cool the garden. Sounds like you're suggesting it's OK to leave the fridge door open

Just the opposite. If you close the fridge door why would you not close windows and doors in the room to be cooled.
P.S. I used to design a/c systems albeit a few years ago.

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:08 pm**

ajm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 7:11 pm
L Austin France wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:36 pm
ajm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:26 pm What a daft question. More importantly is what the ceiling height is as it is the volume of air that is the deciding factor not the area of the room.
Not a daft question unless one intends on trying to cool the garden. Sounds like you're suggesting it's OK to leave the fridge door open
Just the opposite. If you close the fridge door why would you not close windows and doors in the room to be cooled.
Exactly
P.S. I used to design a/c systems albeit a few years ago.
Then maybe you should have mentioned that a room's volume is just one component of its heating/cooling calculations

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:42 pm**

L Austin France wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:08 pm
ajm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 7:11 pm
L Austin France wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:36 pm Not a daft question unless one intends on trying to cool the garden. Sounds like you're suggesting it's OK to leave the fridge door open
Just the opposite. If you close the fridge door why would you not close windows and doors in the room to be cooled.
Exactly
P.S. I used to design a/c systems albeit a few years ago.
Then maybe you should have mentioned that a room's volume is just one component of its heating/cooling calculations

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