The 14000 Btu Portable Air Conditioner by EdgeStar, is a dual hose unit, which means it pulls in  air from outdoors, and exhaust  your warm air outdoors through two separate hoses. This dual hose system allows this portable unit to perform as well as a window mounted unit. Below you can read up on the various types of portable units. What you should conclude that for the money, a dual hose system is more efficient and a better cooling unit than a single cooling unit and in most cases more practical than a split unit. Once you have read up on the different types of portable units, check out some of the customer reviews included at the end of this post.

Portable air conditioners are movable units that can be used to cool a specific region of building in a

modular fashion, not requiring permanent installation. Most portable air conditioners are refrigeration

based rather than evaporative[citation needed], and it is this type that is described in this section

All refrigerated type portable air conditioners require exhaust hoses for venting. Through this process of air

intake, cooling and venting, air is continually cycled through the unit until the room reaches the desired

temperature setting. Also, the refrigerant works to not only cool the air but also dehumidify air in the room,

owing to the temperature decrease in the air resulting in saturation of the water content that can be

suspended in the air, resulting in condensation, when the air is returned to the room, the air will be

reheated without this additional water content.[8]. The water loss rate is sufficiently high to require

collection or drainage. The exact conditions for the condensation of the water from the air can be

estimated using a Psychrometric chart for air at room pressure.
Single hosed units

A single hosed unit has one hose that runs from the back of the portable air conditioner to the vent kit

where hot air can be released. A typical single hosed portable air conditioner can cool a room that is 475

sq. ft. (45 sq meters) or smaller and has at most a cooling power of 12,000 BTUs.

Dual hosed units

Dual hosed units are typically used in larger rooms. One hose is used as the exhaust hose to vent hot air

and the other as the intake hose to draw in additional air (usually from the outside). These units generally

have a cooling power of 12,000-14,000 BTUs and cool rooms that are around 500 sq. ft. The reason an intake

hose is needed to draw in extra air is because with higher BTU units, air is cycled in large amounts and hot

air is expelled at a faster rate. This creates negative air pressure in the room, and the intake hose

stabilizes the room’s air pressure.

Split units

Portable units are also available in split configuration, with the compressor and evaporator located in a

separate external package and the two units connected via two detachable refrigerant pipes, as is the

case with fixed split systems. Split portable units are superior to both single and dual hosed mono-portable

units in that interior noise and size of the internal unit is greatly reduced due to the external location of the

compressor, and no water needs to be drained from the internal unit due to the exterior location of the

evaporator.

A drawback of split portable units compared with mono-portables is that a surface exterior to the building,

such as a balcony must be provided for the external compressor unit to be located.

Unlike window ACs the split AC does not have an option of exchange of indoor and outdoor air.

Heat and cool units

Some portable air conditioner units are also able to provide heat by reversing the cooling process so that

cool air is collected from a room and warm air is released. These units are not meant to replace actual

heaters though and should not be used to cool rooms lower than 50 °F (10 °C).

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Customer reviews

By     B. Elledge  -
This review is from: 14,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner with Dual Hose – EdgeStar
Overall, I have been very satisfied with the cooling ability of the unit. Out of the box, it was simple to set up

and install, although the included window exhaust adapter is not high quality (easy enough to make a solid

one yourself). The unit has been working nights with outside temperatures between 80 and 85 and easily

brings the indoor temperature of our bedroom down to 68 while the rest of the house is set to 78 on the

central AC.
Pros: cost; low noise; dual hose essentially eliminates the need to drain the unit; cooling ability.
Cons: poor window adapter
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By     M. Stevens “Paradoxicon” (Tacoma WA USA) -

This review is from: 14,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner with Dual Hose – EdgeStar
This Unit does pretty well for the price. For those of us with windows that do not fit well with regular AC

units, this is a good alternative.

There are three adapter plates that fit together to fill the rest of the window opening, it will fill an opening

approximately 5 feet high by 8″ wide, or an area 5 feet wide by 8″ high.

You attach the hoses to the unit, and then attach the plates to the other end of the hoses.
You open your window, then put the plates into the window, and close the window back onto the plates.

There are TWO hoses (about 6″ diameter) and the hoses are only about 4 feet long. This makes it a bit

difficult to place the adapter plates in a window, but it can be done. Also, there is no gasket around the

plates which leaves a small air gap.

As I use this with my sliding glass door (which is 7 feet tall), I had to fill the 2 foot gap between the top of

the plates and the top of my door.

This all works, but leaves me thinking that i could have designed a better hose/plate assembly. The AC unit

itself is great.

When the temperature was in the 90′s it cooled a fairly large room down into the upper 70′s, and when the

temperature got over 100, this unit cooled the room down enough to be bearable, down to about 86

degrees I think.

All in all I am happy with the AC unit. the hose/plate assembly leaves something to be desired, or I would

have rated this a 5 star.

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