High quality air conditioner for a very reasonable price.
Written: Oct 05 '01
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Pros: Cools quickly and effectively, has a variety of settings, cheap to use.
Cons: cool air not very directable, makes a moderate amount of noise.
The Bottom Line: A fine air-conditioner, it will cool an entire two-bedroom, one living room, one kitchen, one bath apartment, no problem, without increasing your monthly electrical bill significantly.
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| irfloyd's Full Review: Whirlpool ACM082XP Air Conditioner |
We bought this airconditioner at a supermarket for around $200 because my wife was pregnant and the summer was getting hot, and she had lived in Houston where every house has airconditioners. We have lived in three different apartments since we bought it: all were two bedroom, one bathroom, 1 kitchen and 1 living room, and the airconditioner is so powerful it will cool THE ENTIRE APARTMENT!!! What is even more exciting is that our electricity bill DID NOT INCREASE significantly from winter to summer: June cost the same as all the winter months, and July and August were only $5 more expensive. We often left the air conditioner running for 6-12 hours at a time, but it was not necessary to do so except on the hottest days--in fact, if it was just in the 80s out, we could make the apartments quite chilly inside (like in the 60s). The air-conditioning unit is quite bulky, and water accumulates inside of it, which makes installation, and especially uninstallation relatively difficult, but you only need to do each once a year, and that's not bad. The only real problem is that it makes a moderate amount of noise--though compared with other window models, and even in-wall models, it can be very quiet. To reduce the sound it makes you can also adjust the fan settings. The only other thing that you could possibly complain about is that you can direct the air coming out of the vents to a certain degree, but mostly you are confined to up, down, or straight out. All in all, I heartily recommend it.
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Amount Paid (US$): 200
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Member: Ingbert Floyd
Location: Boston, MA, USA
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