I picked this Royal Sovereign Portable Air Conditioner at a SEARs while planning my pre-emptive measures for the hot summer months. My apartment doesn’t have a central AC unit and has forced me to use less conventional methods. Last summer I kept wet bandanas chilled on my neck, as it was a Boy Scout survival technique I learned when I was 8. I do have an older window AC unit with the apartment, but after awhile it shut down and I was not willing to hassle the management for it (since they did a “wonderful” job on my heater…it smells like old clothes).
I researched a lot of units and decided on this simple AC unit because it had high markings. I turned it on and left it on for an afternoon while I went grocery shopping for the week…and when I returned it was ice cold in my apartment. I was very pleased. My mother actually asked me to bring it over already…to help her clean out her hot attic. I hated cleaning the attic as a kid, and for some reason or another my mom would always choose summer to do it. I suppose it’s because the day care kids are gone, and that summer is the “slow” month for my mom’s business.
I turned the AC on for about an hour before I went to work in the attic a few weekends ago. I dare say…I wasn’t so upset about helping her out anymore! Eventually I was comfortable enough, and the attic was clean enough, to pull out my old sleepingbag and take a nice siesta..!
The NewAir AC-10000E is a portable air conditioner that’s built for the apartment dweller in mind. This unit is marketed to cool single rooms and personal spaces. It weighs about 50 pounds and is honestly one of the lightest portable ACs I’ve ever seen.
The tiny NewAir AC-10000E has 10,000 BTUs of cooling and is ideal for rooms no larger than 200 square feet. I found that the 12-hour timer, programmable temperature settings, and remote control made it easy to control temperature settings, while the Energy Efficiency Ratio of 11.6 will help me save money on electricity costs (hopefully!). The include window kit was pretty easy to use and I was ready to hook the unit up in my bedroom in about 10 minutes. I found that the NewAir AC-10000E portable air conditioner was pretty quiet, but my only qualm with this machine was that it didn’t seem to have an auto-start feature for power outages (not really a big deal unless you’re using it for a computer service room or something). If you have a slightly larger room, the Soleus LX-120 12,000 BTU portable AC unit (*est. $380) will probably do the trick for about a hundred dollars more.
Because the NewAir AC-10000E supposedly came out a few weeks ago, there are very few reviews of this portable air conditioner. I was a little hesitant in buying something with little to no information available, but given that this unit was incredibly compact, it was really the only choice I had for my tiny 700 square foot studio apartment. Currently I’ve only found 2 stores that carry it – Air-N-Water.com and Air-Conditioner-Home.com. Both retailers have it on sale for $299, but with a little research, I think you can get it for less with a discount code or something.
I ended up buying my AC-10000E from www.air-n-water.com, and it arrived on my doorstep in a few days, so I was happy with the service. Overall, I’d rate this portable air conditioner an 8/10. While it isn’t the strongest unit you can buy, the fact that it’s as small as most room dehumidifiers makes it awesome.