NewAir AC-12000E 12000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner
Uncategorized November 11th. 2011, 3:01pm
The NewAir AC12000-E 12000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner is widely known as one of the best portable air conditioners around, primarily due to its space and energy efficiency: the R-410 refrigerant ensures that the unit uses as little electricity as possible, and as far as we have researched, we haven’t yet found a smaller 12000 BTU portable air conditioner, so you have access to a considerable amount of power within a surprisingly small space. This enables you to use your living room, bedroom, office or studio apartment for its original purpose(s), without having to trip over a massive bulky air conditioning unit. This particular article on the AC12000-E has been written after an actual trial period of 1 week. I also use information from other portable air conditioner reviews where it is relevant to this particular model.
Essential features of the NewAir AC-12000E 12000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner:
- One of the most compact 12000 BTU Air Conditioner units available
- Powerful air cooling via auto-evaporative mechanism
- R-410A refrigerant for increased energy efficiency
- Dehumidifier as well as cooler functionality
- Remote control and convenient 24 hour timer setup
Although the NewAir AC-12000E 12000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner sells extremely well, we all know that popularity is not always a reliable indicator of quality. As a new buyer, in order to get the best portable air conditioner for your needs, you always need to consider real customer opinions from actual portable air conditioner reviews i.e. those based on real experience before getting your first air conditioner. So what do customers on amazon generally think about the NewAir AC-12000E? Well, there is no dispute that this unit produces very cold air instantly, and it is generally regarded as an ideal alternative to window AC units. In this respect, most customers are very happy with their purchase, however there were a couple of reviewers who are not satisfied with the overall effect on their apartments. As an air conditioner engineer for 15 years, this initially confused me. Why was it working so well for some people, with one particular owner noting that it cools her entire 1200 sq ft home (exceeding its inferred capacity), while others weren’t getting the results they wanted? It simply cannot be that one person experiences a temperature decrease of 10 degrees, while another gets a meagre 1 degree decrease. Some possible solutions to this are to always make sure that your vent hose goes out of your window – an extremely basic mistake but you would be shocked how many times I have been called out to perform repairs (either by friends or clients) only to come across this very error.
Second, another thing that I noticed from the current NewAir AC-12000E portable air conditioner reviews is that it is an evaporative AC Unit, which basically means that its method of producing cool air consists of utilizing water to cool the air by evaporation. The human body is another machine that utilizes this very technique i.e. sweating! On a larger scale, think of how much cooler you get when you take a dip in the swimming pool on a very hot day. This is a very efficient and effective way of cooling air, however it does have its disadvantages, one of which is that this method of air cooling can be less effective in more humid areas. Humidity is a measure of the moisture in the air, and when you evaporate water you generate water vapor, which leads to additional humidity. Similar temperatures can feel very different depending on the humidity – rainforests and jungles are notorious for their high humidity levels and so I wouldn’t recommend the NewAir AC-12000E 12000 BTU Air Conditioner for such climates! In most parts of the USA, though, it should be fine, apart from one or two particular areas such as Florida, for example. However, please note that this unit does have a dehumidifier function, so you can dehumidify the air as well as cool it if you want. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is experiencing less than expected change in comfort levels despite proper function of the portable air conditioner unit.
Finally, some buyers are not checking their AC unit’s functions immediately and their units may have been damaged in transit. Even if you have managed to read all the portable air conditioner reviews available on the internet, and have successfully purchased the best portable air conditioner available for your needs, all that effort will be in vain if the unit gets damaged in transit. When the shipping company delivers your portable air conditioner, take down a number so that you can call them up to return your unit to the sender if it does not work after thorough testing. Keep all packaging and return it in original packaging. From users’ experiences, NewAir is very accommodating to replacements and they will ship a replacement if your unit has been damaged in transit.
What I personally like about the AC-12000E 12000 BTU Air Conditioner in addition to its obvious power, is its multiple dehumidifier capability and the remote control and timer. If your room/house is too humid as well as warm, you can adjust that, and you can do all of it remotely. You can even have it running automatically at pre-set times which is a fantastic feature. For people who are having real discomfort with heat in their homes, this unit could potentially solve all these problems within a short set-up, test and schedule on the timer – and it’s all done. Just make sure that a) you have put the hose out of the window and b) that you have checked all functionality to ensure the unit hasn’t been damaged in transit, because weighing nearly 70 lbs relatively large items such as this are somewhat more difficult to ship. In general, as far as portable air conditioners go, the NewAir AC-12000E 12000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner is not without its problems, but it still retains the title as arguably the best portable air conditioner for environments which are not excessively humid.
Pros of the NewAir AC-12000E 12000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner:
Very powerful for its size
Energy efficient
Simple, easy to install alternative to the traditional window AC unit
Cons of the NewAir AC-12000E 12000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner:
Quite loud
Slightly less powerful than 12,000 BTU window AC unit equivalent