I can’t believe I’m about to write a comment about air conditioners on a thread about world-ending AI, but having bought one of these one-hose systems for my apartment during a particularly hot summer I can say I was pretty disappointed with its performance.
The main drawback to the one hose system is the cool air never makes it outside the room with the unit. I tried putting a bunch of fans to blow the air to the rest of the house, but as you can imagine that didn’t work very well.
I had no idea why until I zoned out one day while thinking about the air conditioner and realized it was sucking the cold air into the intake and blowing it out of the house. And I did indeed read a bunch of reviews from Costco customers before I bought the unit, none of which mentioned the problem.
Wow, the air conditioner systematically sucking the cold air it’s generated back into the intake sort of seems like another problem with this design. (Possibly the same problem in another guise, thermodynamically, but in any case, different in terms of actual produced experience.)
I can’t believe I’m about to write a comment about air conditioners on a thread about world-ending AI, but having bought one of these one-hose systems for my apartment during a particularly hot summer I can say I was pretty disappointed with its performance.
The main drawback to the one hose system is the cool air never makes it outside the room with the unit. I tried putting a bunch of fans to blow the air to the rest of the house, but as you can imagine that didn’t work very well.
I had no idea why until I zoned out one day while thinking about the air conditioner and realized it was sucking the cold air into the intake and blowing it out of the house. And I did indeed read a bunch of reviews from Costco customers before I bought the unit, none of which mentioned the problem.
Wow, the air conditioner systematically sucking the cold air it’s generated back into the intake sort of seems like another problem with this design. (Possibly the same problem in another guise, thermodynamically, but in any case, different in terms of actual produced experience.)