On 8/9/07, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > michael hast wrote:
> >
> >> Pete Theisen wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >>> You are a HOT prospect for a window AC unit, in addition to the central
> >>> air. We just got one in our office, helps a lot.
> >>>
> >> You know, the wife and I have talked about just that. The down-side to
> >> that is that the room has only one window and it's on the front of the
> >> house. As if that weren't already bad enough, it's a window-seat and the
> >> most prevalent window on the front side of the house. I've been trying to
> >> find an alternative so I don't have to sacrifice so much form for the
> >> function. I wonder if I could install one of those motel-room units just
> >> under the window and plant a hedge or something in front of the house...
> >
> > However, to your problem, we found they also have in-room/stand-up units. The
> > only catch with them is that they have to be vented outside. I'm not clear on
> > the specifics, but it's not as drastic as having the butt-end of a window
> > unit sitting out the window. You might investigate that, and see if maybe you
> > could just pierce your outside wall below a hedge to handle the venting.
>
> You'd think there would be something structured like a central cooling
> system, but the size of an in-window AC, where it'd consist of a
> microwave-size-or-smaller unit that goes in the room to be cooled, connected
> by coolant hoses to a unit outside that would cool the fluid in the hoses.
> But I've never heard of one.
>
There are just such units, the condenser is mounted outside with the com-
pressor and the evaporator is mounted in the room to be cooled. We had
one in our server room in the old GTE Mobilenet building. You install the
evaporator in the room up near the ceiling and run the coolant piping out
to the exterior where you mount the evaporator/compressor unit.
I have seen them more and more lately.
As to the units that have hoses to circulate exterior air, most of them I have
seen use a window insert that has the two hoses going to it. Or as some-
one pointed out, you could just punch a couple of holes in the wall and use
drier ports without the flapper valve to direct the air in and out. Make sure
you have some sort of mesh over each port, you could keep the flapper
valve on the exhaust port, but the inlet will need a screen on it rather than
a flapper or your will get critters up in there...
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