LG LP0817WSR 8,000 BTU, 115V Remote Control in White Portable Air Conditioner, Rooms up to 200 Square Feet (Refurbished)

Received via UPS, Amazon Prime 2-day delivery. Took 3 days, but arrived intact, and no physical damage whatsoever to box or contents. Pristine condition. Took a few moment to find all the pieces, they cleverly package one of the plastic hose-to-widow piece under the packaging inserts, almost through it away. Make sure you have all pieces listed in manual, before dumping box.Easy window inset, in my SRO-type, small place here in California. My room would reach 78-80 degrees regularly with all the tech running in here. My PC and video card kick out a lot of heat - jokingly it is rather convenient during cold, winter months. During Indian Summer, I have to shut it all down to avoid damage.Since installing the LG 8,000 BTU portable - I can easily remove it and put it away during the cold months, and setup quickly during the hot months. It can be kind of loud during full-power operation, so I usually set it on Low Fan setting. Perfect for my size room, cools down quickly and set for 73 degrees when I'm going to sleep at night - as goes into a cycle where the compressor to air conditioner will turn off and just slow fan setting will kick in. Love it, sleep like a baby with the fan white-noise.I don't know if it my imagination but the air seems filtered and cleaner than before - removes a lot of dust and odors too.Convenient, compact, affordable, and easy to use. I am very pleased with this purchase. No 103 degree suffering for me, I'll be chilling at 68 degrees with a cold beer.

** Just in case you don't know, ALWAYS keep the unit standing upright. Like a refrigerator, tilting it sideways will get the coolant in places it shouldn't be. So I heard. **Drawbacks (which are minimal and almost not worth mentioning):Internal water tank (though it may be my fault) filled up pretty quickly the first night I had it though it was alot more humid than normal. The tank was full after about 4-6 hours. Had to drag the whole unit upstairs into the backyard to drain it, THOUGH I didn't have the room door closed and it drew air from upstairs essential trying to cool the whole house. Since then, it's been going for maybe 2 months now and haven't had to empty it since. You can also just hook up a hose and have it drain as it collects. 5/8's inch is the outside diameter of the hose you need (so the instruction manual says). Haven't done that yet and haven't really needed to.The only (SMALL) thing is that you have to make sure the remote can see the sensor on the unit. Your remote may say it's at 72 but the unit may be at 73, and vice versa. Though you will hear it beep when it actually reads the remote and it will correct the temp to whatever is on the remote.Also (good/bad... You decide), the fan is always on. Not sure if it's a setting or not, but whether the compressor is on or not, the fan stays on. About as loud as a box fan, maybe a hair quieter. An AC fan in a home just comes on when AC cools. Once again, it may just be a setting.** Anyway, all the good things:- This thing blows. :) 2 speeds for the fan.- It has casters, so it rolls.- Adjustable fins on top that will automatically adjust from sideways to nearly strait upwards, depending on fan speed.- Set this thing at 71 or 70 in a 200 sq ft room, and you WILL need a blanket.- It comes with the collapsible hose (maybe 5-6 feet of it with all the adapters to fit your window.- You don't need any tools to set it up.- Remote comes with batteries.- In case you have to pick it up, there ARE handle indentations on the sides (like a cardboard box would have).- Unit draws (according to box/manual) i.8 amps. I haven't verified this with my ammeter, but i'm guessing it only draws that much when the compressor starts.- The 120v plug has a built in GFCI, so need to buy your own.You can put in a 5/8's OD hose and insert it into one of the two drains to drain automatically. There are 2 drain plugs and when I emptied it, most of the condensation came out of the bottom one. Maybe a tenth of what came out of the bottom came out of the top one.Well worth the $$!!

This thing just... works. The BTU rating seems a little high for the performance I'm getting, the parts that aren't part of the main air conditioner feel cheaply made, like the filters and hoses, although it could just be that they're made of a 'cheap-feel' plastic. It hasn't malfunctioned once. Once I had it set up, a process that took me about fifteen minutes (the instructions were a little engrish-y), It just... worked. And has kept working. If my room wasn't a leaky one built in the early 1900's, I'm sure it would be absolutely frigid all the time. As it is, it works well enough that I have no major complaints in over a month of use.The remote works, and it's the only way to make it 'swivel' (a strictly vertical thing on this model, no side to side. Barely worth it imho) - but the controls on the top are just as easy to access, and only a couple steps away. So the remote is definitely for the extra lazy.There's no horizontal directional control whatsoever - if you want to change where the air is flowing to, you're going to need to move the cabinet itself.Buuuut... it was fairly cheap for an in-room portable, and like I said, within its design limits it functions really well at cooling a room.So short list pros and cons:Pros:Works well enough to cool a small (leaky) one-room apartment under 500 sq. ft.- if your space is better insulated than mine, raise your footage estimates accordingly.Controls are easy to read and function well.Setup, even with a poorly translated instruction manual, was fairly simple and quick.Cons:The manual is poorly translated.The remote is pointless.The accessory parts feel cheaply made and fragile.The fan swivel is pathetic and vertical, and utterly useless.