Seattle HVAC: Soleus Air LX-140, 14,000 BTU Evaporative Portable Air Conditioner, 12

Soleus Air LX-140, 14,000 BTU Evaporative Portable Air Conditioner, 12,000 BTU Heater, Dehumidifier and Fan

Item Features

14,000 BTU portable air conditioner and 14,200 BTU heater
60 pint dehumidifier and 3-speed fan in 1
Evaporative technology reduces moisture and limits emptying a bucket
Programmable digital thermostat
Window kit and exhaust hoses included

Product Details

Product Dimensions: 20 x 23.5 x 35 inches
Shipping Weight: 79.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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ASIN: B000HHJ13I
Item model number: LX-140

By : Soleus Air
Price : $404.16
You Save : $525.83 (57%)

Product Description

A fantastic decision, this unit gives you a 14,000 BTU portable air conditioner, 14,200 BTU heater, 60 pint dehumidifier, and 3-speed fan in 1 powerful machine. The evaporative technologies reduces moisture and limits emptying a bucket. Features a programmable digital thermostat, uncomplicated-to-read multi-color display, 24-hour clock timer, LCD remote control and on-board manage panel to operate all functions. Contains heavy duty casters for maximum portability and window kit with exhaust hoses. Output 115V (60 Hz), 1390 Watts and 12.5 Amps, with size dimensions 17.five (W) by 19 (D) by 32.eight (H) inches, weighing 83 pounds. Comes with a 1-year restricted warranty.

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Item Features

14,000 BTU portable air conditioner and 14,200 BTU heater
60 pint dehumidifier and 3-speed fan in 1
Evaporative technology reduces moisture and limits emptying a bucket
Programmable digital thermostat
Window kit and exhaust hoses included

Client Evaluations

The Soleus LX-140 is in fact the third portable AC we had in the household. The fist, a discontinued Hampton Bay model worked well and is nonetheless operating in a second bedroom. The next, the Sunpentown WA-1010e, was terrible, could only cool the room by about 4 degrees, and broke immediately after a year.
On to the Soleus. The most very important issue in a portable AC is of course cooling capacity, and the Soleus lives up to its claims of getting one of the additional effective units on the market. At 14,000 BTU, it has proven capable of obtaining my 150 sq ft bedroom down to 70 degrees on hot nights, and on sweltering summer days when it is in the upper 90's, it can drop the temp around 15 - 20 degrees if we absolutely shut out any sunlight and leave the unit runnign on high. This may not appear like a tremendous drop, but it's about the very best one can count on from a portable unit. It is also capable of cooling our bigger 300 sq ft master suite, while it maxes out at about a 15 degree drop when it's hot and sunny. As opposed to most of the other portable ACs we have looked at and employed, this 1 does produce a steady stream of fairly cold air, and even though it is massively huger and far more highly-priced than window units, it rivals them in cooling capacity.
Features - The unit has three fan speeds on all the settings and consists of a dehumidifier and heater mode in addition to AC and fan. There is temperature control on the major unit that permits you to choose anyplace in between 61 and 95 degrees, which is a nice function given that some portable ACs just run and run till you are freezing in the middle of the night. If you set the Soleus to 71 degrees, it will run in AC mode until the room cools down, then it will switch to fan mode till the space warms up once more. This is a good feature that not all portable ACs have. There is a timer setting that can be accessed from the key unit, and allows you to run the unit for a specified quantity of hours. See the remote control section beneath for information on the 'time of day' timer. It is not the quietest unit in the globe, but most of the noise is a outcome of the air being pushed by means of the unit rather than the annoying refrigerator noise you get from some. Light sleepers may not like it, but it drowns out the noisy neighbors with its rather non-offensive white noise. It could also stand to have superior circulation attributes. There is a 'swing' mode on the remote that makes the vent rotate in an up and down direction, but it does not move side to side and the up-down differential is not all that huge.
Exhaust and drainage - The unit comes with two 6 ft plastic hoses that require to be stuck out a window so that it can exhaust the hot air. The dual hose system is supposed to make the unit function a lot far better, and among the dual hoses and the high power of the unit it seems to execute superior to any other unit we have looked at. The hoses are a bit wide and cumbersome and could stand to be insulated, but they do the job. Even though the manufacturer claims the unit does not in most cases require to be drained, I uncover their statistics a small optimistic. While I don't need to have to drain it when I am applying it at night to drop the temp from 80 to 70, on really hot and humid days the water reservoir will fill up and require to be emptied every two days. However, a massive style flaw is that there is no automatic shut off on the unit. Even though the 'drain unit' light will come on in a lot of time, if you ignore it for way more than a couple hours the water will begin to seep out the bottom of the unit and it will just keep running. I did this when overnight and woke up to obtain about a gallon of watter puddling on the hard wood floor with all the electrical cords lying in it - not the safest of conditions. A second design flaw is that the drain is on the rather bottom rear of the unit. If you spot it on the floor, only a very really shallow pan can catch the water. There is a rubber hose that comes with the unit that can be employed to drain the water either out a window or into a bucket, though either choice feels a little poor white trash to me.
Power - At 1500 watts, the unit is a bit of a power hog. All AC units are, and when it's 110 degrees outside the electricity expense is nicely worth it. Even so, it should certainly be noted that countless circuit breakers and fuse boxes can be overloaded when you throw this unit on with a bunch of other stuff. We had to locate a plug on a breaker that was separate from our other key electronics, given that running this unit, a tv, stereo and pc all on one particular breaker was not going to function.
Portability - The unit is moderately heavy, despite the fact that it does have wheels to make portability a little less complicated. The pictures in the advertisements hide that it is a little deeper than you may possibly think, and it's foot print is a rather massive 20 x 20 inches. There are two exhaust hoses that reach about 6 ft in length, so it requirements to be ideal beneath or ideal subsequent to a window. We bought a smaller table at Ikea for it to sit on so that the hoses extend straight into the window, which assists cooling capacity tremendously considering that the major exhaust hose is where all the heat from the area goes, and it can get rather warm. Extanding it to its full 6 feet drastically reduces the colling capacity of the unit, because that is like having a lengthy tubular heater in the space. Much better insulated exhaust hoses should certainly be at the leading of just about every portable AC designers list, but none of them appear to have them.
The remote that comes with the unit is so-so. It permits you to access most of the functions, though you will need to point it straight at the unit or it will not pick up the signal. Even when the unit does communicate with the remote, it doesn't function 100% effectively. For instance, if I press 'mode' to switch from AC to fan, the unit will beep to tell me it received the signal. However, it may switch from AC to fan like I asked, or it may stay on AC, or it can switch to heater. Regrettably you can not tell with no searching at the best of the unit. There is also a timer setting on the remote that supposedly lets you system what time of day you want the unit to switch on, probably so you can come property to a cool room following function. This does not function all that nicely, because you have to bear in mind to point the remote at the unit prior to leaving and hope it essentially turns the unit on when it's supposed to. There is no clock or time of day setting on the principal unit at all, so for this function you have to rely on the remote 100%. The remote is not backlit, so it is challenging to see at night.
Overall, the unit gets an A for cooling, a B+ for attributes, and a C- for remote control. Considering that my primary objective was to cool a area and finding around the difficulties with the remote is somewhat easy, I would indeed advocate this to any person looking to cool a 200 - 400 sq ft space.

I have tried five different units more than 8 yeasrs (two being this 1). Only one particular worked 1/2 way decent, and it still has issues.
This a single is the most powerful 110volt portable unit there is.
In general, they all end up leaking water all over the spot. None of them appear to be able to evaporate the water as rapid they are supposed to. By winter, I can anticipate the units to leak water everywhere, and the water light never ever comes on.
All 5 brands are cheaply made and by the similar factory even although they are from different suppliers.
If you are seeking for portable AC. Much better to skip it as you'll be lucky if you come across a unit that satifies your needs. IF you are insistant, go with a better built unit. Google about for a unit built in the US, most most likely it will be developed for server space cooling. Most likely that will run $1000-$3000.
I am on my 5th unit and wish we had just spent the income up front rather of having to replace the unit every single year as we are performing now.
These units are frequently affordable and you get what you spend for. I would rate this larger if not for the water issue (I just cleared an 1/8 inch of standing water out of a 12 x 12 room).