( 29 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 5 2009
Great AC unit for the price. Has kept our family room and kitchen cool through the Seattle heat this summer. Unit is rated for only 500sq ft but has held a very comfortable 72 degrees in a 1,000+ sq foot area.
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Posted: Aug 2 2009
Yeah, its a tad heavy, have a bud help with the lifting or be ready for a couple of "I can do this" moments. Otherwise, it installs like a dream. Use the recommended table outside the window (I used a card table). Comes with wood screws expecting a wood sash, if you have the newer vinyl windows you'll have to invest in some pan heads (mine came to about a buck and a half). Operationally, this thing's a gem. Only 10K BTU, yet it brought our Northwest heat wave under control in practically no time. Easily set for recirculate, outside air vent, or "out with the bad, in with the freshly cooled". That combined with three cooling modes: Cool, Energy Saver, and, well, Fan. Cool to start, Energy Saver to maintain. The unit is smart enough to make adjustments. Remote carries a display of the current ambient temp, and can be synced with the main unit. Draws less than than 8 amps, so it runs great on a 15 amp circuit. Wow. What a friggin' life saver! Frigidaire created the first real mass produced fridge, that thing with the coils and compressor on the top of the storage box (uh, heat rises). That gave way to style and energy consumption at the expense of practicality. This unit makes me believe that the designers at Frigidaire, regardless of where the things are manufactured, have re-found their form-follows-function roots. A central conditioning estimate for my home came in at several thousand, a couple more of these sweet little units and I'll be appreciating the same effect for less than a grand. And with the options of recirculate, vent or exchange air. And less than 800 watts a unit. Warranty is parts and labor for a year, with a 40 dollar extension to three years. Very, very cool. ;-D -Jim
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 29 2009
I obsessed over whether to buy this unit due to some of the negative reviews. I read the reviews of many other frigidaire products and for whatever reason, people seem to think they are loud. My experience with this unit is that it is as loud as any other in-window unit. Given a choice between dripping in a pool of my own sweat or getting a good night's rest, a bit of white noise in the background wins everytime. Unit arrived the day after I ordered it, which was a day ahead of schedule, which delighted me. It had clearly been banged up in shipment, but I don't care how the unit looks as long as it works. I got it setup in 10 minutes and it worked fine so I didn't care about the dings and dents. Others may not be as lax as me in this area, but it is 100 degrees here today! Note: I have "storm windows" in my apartment. You are supposed to have a block of wood to shim under the unit if you have storm windows (ie modern windows found in newer buildings, where the bottom of the window is not flush with the window sill). My window is like this: _|_ . The design of the AC unit is for the lower sill to be like this: _|---|_ , such that the unit rests on the bridge in the middle. I did not put in a shim, which may affect the angle that my unit is resting at. You want the unit slightly inclined so it drains correctly, but I think the way I wedged it into the storm window it will drain anyway. The 10k BTU is totally overkill for my 250 sq ft room (I wanted to be able to put the unit in the main, bigger room of my apartment), so the lack of a perfect flush seal in favor of a more correct-seeming angle was my compromise. Anyway, quit worrying, get this unit, you will be fine!
