After building my very tiny camper I wanted a way to easily cool it without a complicated built-in installation. After some searching I came across this small 1,000 btu Emerson unit and had to give it a try. Thanks for taking a look!
@texasbuyer8335 I appreciate your honesty sir. You think it would make a big rig sleeper more bearable for these dallas summer nights? I have a coffin sleeper rig so I would say it's about 40 Sq ft of area to cool down.
Garbage the compressor burned out in 2weeks on both units . the seller told me to try to resell it on eBay after i bought it from him within the 30 day return window
The problem with all these type of units is they are not closed systems. For every cubic feet of air you blow out the back to the outside, it must pull in replacement air from the outside. In the end you just get a comfort breeze blowing on you vs cooling a space. A unit with both an intact and exhaust is better. I’d take the case off and build a new enclosure that keeps outside air circulating around condenser and inside air circulating around evaporator. Then you have a cooling device.
It works like a max air mode in car they work just dont expect it to drop 80 square feet of solide space less than 4 to 6 degrees at night . during day you can feel it but really is effective at night is my findings good product . 537 watt hours will run it 2.5 hours so get a solar generator around 2000 watt hours of you wanna run thru the night 6 to 8 hours
So after using this for a while, do you know how long would it take to cool down a 7x16 r7 spray foamed enclosed trailer? Do you have any watt or amp numbers? Thanks.
The biggest problem with all of these portable air conditioners is that the air that gets blown outside gets drawn in from inside the space that's being cooled. That creates a negative pressure inside that space and the hot air that's getting blown outside is getting replaced by hot air from outside being drawn in to the space from wherever it can get drawn in.
@@robsnider83 I don't understand this comment. All you have to do is get the ones that have dual hoses so that it's not creating a negative pressure and drawing the hot air right back into the space. It's pretty basic physics.
My husband and I also converted a pop-up to a hard side- a squaredrop in our case. We looked at most of your videos when we were brainstorming and building. Never saw this one though- until I was looking at ac options for the very same reasons! After reading the bad reviews I wanted to see videos, and here you are again. Thanks for ALL the videos. You've helped more folks than you know. Please update once you've had a bit of time to see how it will do in the camper!
This would’ve been perfect if would’ve had an intake and exhaust instead of just exhaust, because otherwise the way it is it will just create a negative pressure in a small close environment such as a trailer and so on.
There's a video of some guy using a one hose portable ac in his tent and the tent started imploding in it self lol. Yeah a dual hose is needed especially in a tent
@@DoritosResidue LMAO! I can imagine. We used a one hose unit in a 5'x5'x7' Gorilla grow tent, which was in an Air condioned house. Strongest grow tents made, but the negative pressure would "suck in" the sidewalls, so the middle of the walls were pulled in by 6 inches or so, on the 4 sides. Exhausted out a nearby window. Trying to imagine using a unit in a regular camping tent was very easy. Still making me laugh at just the thought!👍💯😂😂✌️
I really wish people would stop using surface temperature thermometers to read air temperature , when trying to measure air temperature you need a probe that will do just that , I suppose the surface temp right at the end evaporator would eventually get chilled, laser thermometers just aren't ideal for air temp samples. You should have at the most 20° temp difference between supply and return, or from filter side to air outlet , if you have more than 20° or way less than 20° you have a problem, I'd be curious to see what this thing can acheive on a hot day with a hot camper, say 100° in the camper, and I wonder why they have bad reviews, did people expect too much out of them, or did they not run the exhaust air outdoors something of that nature? Any h ow appreciate the video..
My observation on most of the reviews is that people are trying to cool huge spaces or spaces that are basically solar heat magnets (IE a car in open sun) and getting upset. In reality they need 8000+ BTU AC’s and are getting upset the 1000BTU unit they purchased isn’t up to the task. In short, user error, not a problem with the actual product. I’ve ordered one of these now as well for our tiny trailer and will also report back on my experiences.
Yes you're 100% right the average car has around $15,000 BTUs and we all know what they work like in a direct sunlight in this thing has about 1500 at the most so all it's going to do is keep you maybe comfortable at night time without the sun beaming down solar magnet like you described
I'm sure you could use this to cool yourself in a car IF you used a fan to suck all the heat out first. Plus cars are not insulated that well so it's not gonna keep it cool. But if you have to sit in the car it will probably keep you from getting heat stroke. Imo.
This is so true. Expectations are unrealistic in most cases. With this in mind, do you think this would have practical application for a 40-ish Sq ft semi cab for sleeping at night? I live in texas and need something as an alternative to a multi thousand dollar AC. I'd love to have my cab cool to sleep at night but I'm going as cheap as I can.
In response to the amazon comments you mentioned. Reading through them people are complaining that it can't even cool 100+ sq. ft rooms. When the description clearly states its only for 65' to 85 sq ft rooms. Of course it didn't work as they wanted. When your trying to get it to work in rooms twice the maximum size. Haven't seen where you tried these but hopefully you took that into consideration
This unit will cool 80 square feet at night and will def keep you cool and its a really good dehumidifier . make sure you exhaust the hot air thru side wall and your least 90 percent sealed up wear unit is . during daytime when its at peak sun up it will not cool well enouph . so during day a good large fan will work . this unit draws 130 watts on low end really does work well it night thears no way your going to sleep in a truck camper at night without it
This is really helpful. Do you think it will cool a 45-ish Sq ft semi cab at night to the 60s range? At night of course. I want to find an alternative to an expensive ac sleeper unit. And don't want to idle my truck at night at the truck stops. For reference I live in texas. Average night time temps even in summer are 70 to 90 degrees says google lol
Wow, I had no idea that existed. I bet that would cool down the cabin of my Compac 16XL. I used to have one of those dryer-hose mini AC units in the bedroom. I set it up to blow cold air on me while I slept. It was able to do that at a fraction of the cost of cooling the house. As small as that is, and with the DC option, rooftop solar on your mini camper could be a reality.
It probably would work on your 16. I always liked the lines of that boat. The Zero Breeze units are probably more robust but they cost far more than I was willing to invest for this project. I think it will be a good fit for my needs on the little camper.
CONFUSED: Got this today. Lowes had it for $379.00. Home Depot matched the price since they had it for $590.00. I'm confused about something. If we have it in our VW Bus camping, do we have to put the drain hose on and put that in a bucket or something while in the Bus? Or do we just plug it and it evaporates on it's own while in AC mode. Cannot figure this out. Nothing stating this anywhere. Thanks.
The 0-2 has 2300 BTUs in this one has a thousand or so plus the zero breeze has two hoses which always works better than a single hose unit so do a little more research before you spend the money they'll both probably cool you off at night but neither one's going to cool up a camper in the daytime direct sunlight
@@billwaller4094 Any thoughts on this unit? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tS5LNnWTMWY.html Build quality looks questionable compared to the Emerson and Zero Breeze, but it's the only one available for purchase where I am for under $500.
He kinda did. The split temp (as the AC types call it) in your home AC would be 15-20 degrees difference from in intake to the outlet. So it does work from that point of view. The question is how much volume are you trying to cool and what heat inputs are coming to the area you're trying to cool (appliances, thermal heating from the sun, number of bodies in the room)
No matter how small a camper is if it has a metal outside shell sitting in the direct sunlight it's not even going to come close to cooling it it might make you comfortable at night but daytime a 5 000 BTU window unit won't keep it cool in the daytime in the sun
These things are SOOOOO inaficaint because they take the air that you just just got cooled and shoots it right outside makes no sense, a normal AC unit will keep recirculating the air.
1.2 COP is absolutely wild. That's awful. Most portable in home units are like 1.75-2.5, most central air hvac systems are around 4 *depending on rating conditions
Thanks for not putting any useful info in this video. I love having my time wasted, and I think when people watch a product review, they just want to be told thst a product exists... not how well it works, or whether it will provide a solution to their problem. Cheers!
Can you run it with a generator... I was thinking of putting a generator in the back of my truck and running a short extension cord into the cab and using something like this
I hav e a pop up just like yours that i bought....its hollow on the inside but im not to Handy with wood etc.... would like to know tips...maybe you can work on it ? Where are you located?
How long does it take to automatic shutdown the compresor? Or what temp does the compresor shut down? I got a mobi garden brand. Seems same with yours. Its been running the whole night and i observe the compresor doesnt turn off even its really cold
Hi I was just looking around for another AC unit and came across your video and it's kind of interesting but my question to you is do you think something like this will be good for a semi truck to run it with a generator I just don't want to have my truck idling a lot of places I go specially some warehouse don't want me to keep my truck running all night so I was wondering if this might work please let me know thanks
We are using a portable AC with mixed results the biggest problem is a combination of venting and pressure inside the trailer. We had to add a secondary blower and even so not totally happy. One of the sailboating channels had a nice home made mini split system they are planning on selling. I will find the link and post if you are interested. Thanks for the nice review of this unit still waiting for the one commercial unit that is modular and ticks all the boxes so far no luck.
@drez, can you tell me where you bought yours? I ordered one through Wayfair yesterday and I just got an email that my order was cancelled because the “item was discontinued”. And I can’t find it in stock *anywhere* now.
So I bought this off Amazon. It has no filters on the sides and no directional fins on the front. The manual has no mention of how to lower the temperature and no mention of the various wiring that comes with it.
