Graham Sutherland / Polynomialliving on a humid island where all the houses are spec'd for surviving 1970s winters sure is fun at 30°C.
air conditioning? central air? ventilation ducts? heat rejection? lmao nah we don't need any of that. brick and fiberglass wool all the way. keep every last BTU locked up nice and tight. 🫠
I'm still super mad at whoever's driving the lack of dual hose portable air conditioning units here. they're all the single hose kind, super inefficient. if you want a dual hose unit you have to import one from the US and whack a huge lump of a transformer on it to feed it 110V, total cost pushing £2000. or mod a single hose unit but that's a pain in the ass and pretty ugly.
✧✦Catherine✦✧@gsuberland oh so it's not just me
i swear, i am this close to building a ghetto minisplit myself, probably with butane or something to avoid a need for an F-gas license
jaseg@whitequark @gsuberland I've seen they make 12 V-powered minisplits with short hoses for installation in RVs, and I've actually considered buying one to cool down a single, 20 sqm-ish room. They're kinda expensive though if you consider they are only about 500 W.
@jaseg @gsuberland i am in a small room and a 700 W unit is Extremely not cutting it. i would not consider anything below 2 kW cooling power most likely
@whitequark @gsuberland sorry, I meant 500 W electrical input, so more like 1 ~ 1.5 kW cooling. Still not great though.
@jaseg @gsuberland yeah that's what i mean here too
i think my unit suffers a lot due to the need to hold a window open
Buttered Jorts@whitequark @jaseg @gsuberland do they have those Midea units with the U shape over there?
@ajn142 @whitequark @jaseg our windows aren't shaped like that. they're hinged like a door, they don't go up.
@gsuberland @ajn142 @whitequark I tried converting my single-hose unit to two hose operation with a DIY’ed window adapter but I figured out that the hot side fan of the unit just didn’t have anywhere close to enough static pressure to deal with more than a meter or two of hose total so I went back to just having another window open. Maybe I could have tried putting in one of those cheap inline exhaust fans you can get on Amazon or Ali to help it.
