Hisense 8,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner with Dual Hose & Inverter, 350 Sq Ft, Wi-Fi, ConnectLife App Google and Alexa, 3 operating modes, Noise 42 dB(A) - HAP0824TWD (Renewed), White

1. Initial thoughts The unit came packaged as if its packaged brand new. This was extremely pleasing as I did by the unit as a refurbished unit on sale. But from my understanding, lotta units that are sold as refurbished could practically be a scratch and dent return or maybe the box was damaged. Whatever the case is, I trust Amazon sell me a good product and they usually follow through pretty well with obvious exceptions to the rule here and there. The unit is a little bit heavy, but any normal woman man of stature could be able to pick this up pretty easily. 2. Setup Set up is decently easy if you understand really anything mechanically. The directions are pretty good, and clear on what/ what not to do. You may have to finagle the window, slat a little bit to get it to seal correctly, but it does come with foam and beetle tape to ensure you have an airtight seal. Quite literally is “plug-in play.” 3. Usage and performance. I am in south Florida on the beach. The climate that I’m in is extremely taxing on anything that has to do of cooling such as refrigeration or air conditioning. Normally, the humidity index is around 60 to 70% with an exterior temperature of 95° in the shade. This unit performs extremely well with all that being said and done. Its quiet, and very high-performance and handling heat thermal load. 4. Have a real big question my power bill obviously, the reason not most people would probably buy one of these either to help with cooling because it’s just hot as heck or because they want to save some money on the power bill instead of running their central air at all times. My power bill went from average of $11 per day down to $5.30 it immediately within the first day of using this unit to call my master bedroom down at nighttime down to 73 to 72° F. This is also running this unit on fan speed high, MODE -COOL. I do believe it’d be a lot more efficient and save you even more power if I was to run it at 74° fan speed on automatic and mode on automatic. Our consumption is somewheres around 400-500w/hr. This is only a FRACTION of what my central air conditioning uses (6,500w/hr.) obviously a split unit or a window unit with the same inverter technology, such as the Midea-U Will be even more efficient than this. But the reality is that it’s going to be a lot more expensive to buy/ install initially. For a four AC that is sub $200, dual tube, and digital inverter scroll compressor… i’m very impressed and very happy. 5. The summary I would buy this again. This is a great unit to save you power and really icebox your room out. This unit is cheap quiet very powerful and very efficient. There will always be more efficient alternatives, but in reality, it’s not by much. At least at this point, not enough to offset the cost of buying an entire split unit and then paying someone to install it and then paying someone to wire it up. If you want to save on power, this will cut your power bill in half as long as you don’t run your central air. My Central air conditioner is set at 78F at night.

This is my 2nd try for same type of air handler. I have small home office inside my laundry room that at most might be 150SQ feet. While 8000BTU might seem like too much, my room is west facing with no insulation that 100 cinder block. I also live in south Florida so heat and humidity is very high. My last unit was 6000BTU and could never really keep this room comfortable. Also after two years, the salt and humidity rusted out the pan from my last unit. This unit had all the features I was look for, and the price could not be beat. The unit arrived well packaged in a brown box. Everything needed properly install was included. The only thing might be considered to be missing would be some Aluminum tape to seal any gaps between the part. Otherwise the unit was easy to setup. I put tape wear I saw any sunshine from the outside, and at night I used white duct tape to plug any light coming out from the room. The issue with these unit, they have poor drainage, and are supposed to vent out the condensation via evaporation. South florida is much too humid to operate in this manner. I contacted Hisense, and said I would be able to attach a drain line to the top drainage port and leave the bottom port open. I connected the unit to a condensate pump, and the unit has been perfect. Keeps very dry, no humid smell when it first starts. The AC on this unit has been excellent. I'm in the laundry room, and I can run the dryer without the room heating up too much. The humidity control is good. I hardly messed with the unit this summer when it was on. In the fall I've noticed I've had to turn the temperature because my office is cold. The wifi can be a little difficult to setup. I read online to power cycle the unit if setup fails. This worked, and I am very happy that unit turns on and off automatically on a schedule. The app is decent enough.

My bedroom has always been several degrees warmer than the rest of the house. It takes a lot of sun during the day and the build quality and HVAC installation in my home wasn't top notch. I finally broke down last summer and bought this unit after a lot of research. It's a dual hose unit, which is really important to me. A single hose unit will often struggle against itself and won't cool as efficiently. It puts out a LOT of air, which allows it to cool my large bedroom pretty quickly and bringing it down to a perfect sleeping temperature. The sleep/quiet modes are really fantastic. I like to read before I go to sleep and in quiet mode it's not disturbing at all. In sleep mode it automatically turns off after, I believe, 8 hours, so no worrying that I've left it on when I head to work. The remote control is a bit clunky, but that's not really an issue because the Connect Life app that comes with the Wifi control is solid and easy to set up and use. And, you can do diagnostics from the app and can even download the view the user manual. The only drawback I've run into is that the window panel is a bit clunky. I had to jury rig it last year with some cardboard and foam from the shipping box. This year I'm going to do more thorough job of getting it set up correctly, which will require modifying one of the pieces of the window panel.

Unit cooled properly for 3 days. Compressor now starts for about 3 seconds and shuts off. The exhaust hose does not blow hot air, and the unit only blows room-temperature air in COOL mode despite the room being 82°F. No error codes are displayed.

It is very quiet. Most of the noise is caused by air blowing through the system. The compressor and other mechanicals that actually make up the working part of the A/C is very quiet. It cools down an area about 200 square feet really quickly. Some people say that the units like this are actually less powerful than the claimed BTUs, but it does seem like it could be 8000 BTU. I am actually glad I didn't buy a bigger unit. I wish the oscillation function had side-to-side as well as up-and-down. This is my second season using it, and I did not experience any problem. Another important note: There is no water to drain. I think the water removed from the air is funneled to outside through the ventilation hose. I am beginning to believe Hisense is now a viable alternative to the traditional name brands.

For a refurbished unit that seems to be in very good condition. There were some scratches on the outer plastic of the unit, but no real damage. All of the necessary things to install it were included. For my unit, it didn’t look like it was installed anywhere ever. The bag of screws was open, but all of the foam pieces, the tubes and window mount looked to be unused. This does a very good job cooling my room + bathroom + closet area. If I set it to auto it will typically drop the temperature in the room by 10F within 15 or so minutes. The unit was a little larger than I was expecting with its width and depth but it is not overly bulky. The set up instructions for it are terrible. However, there is a Hisense installation video on YouTube. I would just search the unit name and installation and you can find it. The video instructions are much more clear on how to install this properly in the window. Unlike a standard air-conditioning unit, this thing will remain on once it reaches the target temperature, I’ve also noticed that it can overshoot the temperature and continue to cool the room. The fan on quiet mode is very quiet, to me it just reminds me of having a floor fan on or something similar. However, when the inverter is running for either cool or dry mode, it is noticeably louder, even in quiet mode. It is not so loud that it would wake me up in the middle of the night, but it is not ambient either. I find the remote control to be finicky. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. There seems to be quite a delay between pressing the button and the unit acknowledging the button press command. Using the ConnectLife app is significantly better than the remote.

Very satisfied with this air conditioner! Very efficient too! On high intensity a average size bedroom it will just about freeze you out! Im in Orange County California and find running it at 68 on medium keeps the room at 72 during the day, I work nights. On high and turned down to 61(max) it uses 910 watts but at 68 and medium its humming at 581 watts! Way better than our old portable ac unit. Oh and just running it in fan mode is 18 watts! Being able to control the unit thru Google assistant is an awesome feature. Driving home i can send a simple voice command and the room is cool and ready when I get home! Haven't had any issues with draining either. Very nice not having to worry about routing a drain tube! What are the cons? Running two air vents hoses. If you have horizontal blinds and side sliding windows you need to get creative if you care about esthetics. I got some cheap Epson rigid foam insulation board and cut it to fit the window with the dual vents mounted horizontally at the bottom. I think the benefits far out weigh figuring out how to route the vents. The DC Inverter system is much more cost efficient than a typical AC system and yes the price point was perfect with the "refurbished" or whatever Amazon calls it. I ordered two and they both showed up in factory boxes and perfect condition! I live in a 2300 sf home with 3 bedrooms. Forthe bedroom with the door closed, EXCELLENT! In the living room that opens up to the kitchen, dining room and two hallways... very comfortable. Definitely beats the heat!

I'll be returning this, sadly. This review is specifically for a refurbished unit, in case this page includes reviews for new units as well. - Very loud during operation - if you planned on doing anything in the same room as it, make sure you have some earbuds with amazing noise cancelation to at least mitigate it. - When it's off, it bleeds so much noise and heat and humidity from the outside, your window may as well be wide open. - The remote is very finicky and will randomly stop working sometimes, and does not sync with the app, so the unit sometimes starts going haywire if you set the remote and the app to different settings. - It's comically large and heavy, making it an absolute eyesore and poor choice for a small bedroom. Best of luck if you need to take it up or down stairs. As someone who skips arm day 7 days a week, I'm genuinely wondering how I'm going to manage to return it.. - Absolutely chugs power when it's cooling - I had it connected to a smart plug specifically to measure this, and it was showing almost 700W usage at times. + Installation was relatively easy - I went the extra mile and cut one of the sleeve panels to fit my window in hopes to improve sound quality and insulation (it obviously didn't help at all and there's a good chance I voided my return, I guess we'll see...). If you don't cut panels, you can get it up and running in less than 10 minutes. + The refurbished unit came in pretty good condition. Definitely some scratches/stuff marks here and there on the unit and remote, with obvious adhesive residue on the panels from past use. For $250 less than similar units in its category though, I couldn't really complain. + It does a decent job at cooling, all negatives aside. My use-case was a small, 130sqft bedroom with a single window, door, and tiny floor vent. I have a beefy gaming PC that emits a lot of heat, I keep the window closed due to noise and horrible seasonal allergies, and I keep the door closed due to noise and privacy. In the summer, it easily hits 85°F in my room. With this thing running full blast, it cooled my room down to 72°F in about an hour, and I intentionally used worst conditions possible (door closed, PC playing game that makes it run hot, 90°F outside).

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