De'Longhi Pinguino Compact PACES72 Classic Compact Portable 8,300 BTU Air Conditioner, 3 in 1 Air Conditioning Unit, Rooms up to 60m³, A Energy Efficiency, Window Kit Included, Energy Class A, White

It's fustrating to see people complaining about the noise because it just means they haven't bothered to read up or research air con units. Split systems cost over £1000-1500 without even considering installation, so considering these things come in and less than a third of that, there is going to be a catch. And that catch is the noise. They do make you jump when they fire up, and they do require the hose to be draped out the window or attached to a vent in the wall if you drill one, however if you are looking for a solution to the rising heatwaves, have space to store it when not in use, and would do pretty much anything to deal with the heat then they are an absolute blessing. We move ours around the house depending on what we need it for and it can cool a pretty large space if necessary, but unless you have a very big house you are unlikely to have a room so big that this (or this + an oscilating desk fan to help with room circulation) couldn't handle. Absolutely no regrets, it is awesome. If you can't handle the noise, there is no alternative than having a full split system installed, it's that simple.

I thought I'd leave a review for this as most of the reviews here are for the larger model. I bought the smaller one, Classic Compact. It's certainly compact, very small compared to a larger De'Longhi unit I owned in the past. It also puts out less cooling, but that is to be expected as it's smaller and less powerful. I ordered this unit during a recent heatwave, and just my luck it arrived the day it ended! However, my flat is a heatsink so despite is being now low 20s outside the flat was still 26 degrees. The DeLonghi Compact Classic soon sorted this, and within 30 minutes the room (around 20sqm) was sitting at 21 degrees. I think the unit would struggle with a larger room. I don't know where the 60sqm is coming from as I'd be very surprised if it could manage that. Perhaps in a perfectly sealed room under ideal conditions. But in the real world? Nah. Even having my lounge door open into the hallway significantly reduced the cooling ability of the unit. But you need to be realistic. The specs of this unit are nearer the "cheap" no-name ACs rather than the Classics bigger brothers. I'm happy that it cools a single room down. it does what I expected. There's no window kit that comes with this model. You get a hose and an attachment to poke out the window, but no panel for sliding windows. I have push-out casement windows which are common in the UK, so used the supplied attachments which do mean your window is slightly open during use. There are 3rd party attachments which you can buy to narrow the ducting further, creating quite a thin long shape to the end of the hose, meaning the window would only need to be open a couple of centimetres. This should improve the cooling efficiently. The unit is quite loud, but well within its specifications. I measured the noise level to be 52db with the low fan settings, 59db with the high fan setting and 62db with the compressor active along with high fan. It's unlikely that you would want to run a >50db unit during the night. But the sound levels are clearly noted in the product description. My use case is to run the unit for a few hours in the early evening to take the heat out of my (too) well-insulated flat after a hot summers day. For this the sound level is perfectly acceptable. The compressor unit does produce vibration, which creates a low level hum in the adjacent room and various other locations within the flat. I believe this is due to the units location and/or vibration from the compressor transferring to the hard floor, walls and furniture. I've invested in a thick anti-vibration mat to place the air conditioner unit on with the hope this will help. The unit was on offer at the time of purchase and I paid £367. Which is a similar price to a lot of the budget no-name models. When compared to those I think this unit was the right choice and great value for money. Edit: A few weeks on and the unit still working perfectly. I bought an anti-vibration mat (the kind used for washing machines) which sorted the hum of the compressor almost entirely. I also bought from Denlongi an insulated hose cover which I would highly recommend (make sure to get the proper one direct from Denlongi as there are quite a few knock-offs on Amazon which I expect do nothing). This hose cover not only reduces the heat expelled back into the room - increasing the performance of the air conditioner, but it also reduced the noise of the unit further. It seems a lot of the “fan” noise is actually the thin plastic between the ribs of the hose vibrating and acting almost like a speaker.

I am currently using this to cool a room at the exact maximum rated capacity - 60 cubic metres - which isn't terribly well sealed, and it works perfectly well. In fact it works considerably better than the previous no-name unit I had which had a stated 10, 000 BTU power rating - compared to the 8300 BTU this unit is rated at. It managed to keep the room at 22 degrees when the outside temperature was 30 degrees, while running mostly in the surprisingly quiet "low" mode and eventually even turning off because it had sufficiently cooled the room. I did have all the doors and windows closed, and have some thick plastic sheeting that I use to seal up the window that I vent it with. There are some compromises compared with the more expensive models. You can't change the angle of the air output, it always vents it upwards at a 45 degree-ish angle. It has a remote but no wi-fi smart control. Presumably the lower capacity means it won't work in larger rooms, where the others will, theoretically. It has a couple of advantages as well: it's smaller, uses less energy, and is surprisingly quiet. If you have a room at or below the rated 60 metres squared, this is a good option from a quality brand.

First of all I'm really glad I got this AC, I live in a concrete flat and it absorbs the heat like a storage heater, so this provides much needed respite. After about an hour the temperature drops 5-8 degrees, and the humidity about 10-20%, which makes the room comfortable to be in. I need to keep this running pretty much constantly because of the heat retention, but If your property doesn't retain heat as well then you may get better cooling and it may be able to shut off for longer periods. One very important thing to note is that if you have high humidity and/or are going to put a converter on the hose to fit it through a narrow gap in a window then you will almost certainly need to use the external drain hose. After about two days of using it, the AC "drip tray" overflowed onto the floor due to it not being able to evaporate all of the water it was collecting and generating. Since draining the condensate/drip tray, and using the external drain hose to have it drain into a container, I haven't had the problem, but I do have to empty the external container multiple times a day. As for the noise, the quietness is overstated. It's about as loud as you would expect of a fan and the vibration of the compressor adds significantly to the noise it generates even on the low setting, but that's not something I need to worry too much about as I don't run it whilst sleeping. I'm fairly sure that if you want an actually quiet experience you would need to get an AC with the compressor/fan part outside.