De'Longhi - Pinguino PACEX105A+++

Contrary to the Ask, my partner and I bought a Delonghi portable for about $100CAD and it barely worked, even made the room hotter on humid days in spite of the air gaps being boarded and taped off. We sold it and bought a Canadian Tire house brand (Noma) window mount unit with half the BTUs and it completely outclassed the portable for 1/3 the price. We had to buy a half-sheet of 1/2” polycarbonate (MDF or something would work too, we just wanted the light to come through) to fill the window gap, but it wasn’t a huge deal if you’re remotely Handy. The portable was also *constantly* tripping the breaker in that room when the compressor kicked in if you had anything else using power at the same time. Never once had an issue after we switched to the window unit, but at half the BTU output that’s hardly surprising. Having the compressor and evaporator outside of the space you’re trying to cool makes a night and day difference, otherwise the unit bleeds heat into the room and works twice as hard to keep it cool. It’s a snake eating its tail.

I got a good AC from the Italian brand DeLonghi. Also got another one from Ayce (do have split level apartment). The DeLonghi one is the best of them two.

Pinguino crew big up!

Yes, and I recommend buying one second hand in the cold months. Pinguinos and suchlike, used a few times selling for 75 quid on t'ebay

Ich weiß, viele YouTuber und auch reale positive Erfahrungen sagen Midea PortaSplit. Wer nur die Hälfte ausgeben kann, findet wie ich in der De Longhi Pinguino PAC EX 105 selbst mit nur einem Schlauch eine ähnlich effiziente Alternative (Effizienzklasse A+++ vs Midea A++). 645 Watt maximale Stromaufnahne lassen sich sogar mit einem Balkonkraftwerk decken. Und das ist meine zweite Empfehlung: wenn die Sonne am meisten aufheizt… liefert sie auch zeitgleich den Strom zur Kühlung! Beides für mich in einer Maisonette Wohnung Upgrades, die ich mir als Mieter vor ein paar Jahren noch gar nicht vorstellen konnte.

Mine is a DeLonghi Pinguino. Had it about 4 years and no complaints. https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9453490

Yes. We use it in our living room which is quite large and open and it's great. The hose goes up the chimney. If you used it in a single room it would be Arctic-like which I'd love 😄 I would say it isn't noisy but not sure others would be able to cope with it being on. It's a similar level of noise to an airfryer, imo.

Buy a delonghi pinguino, adapt a second tube ( intake ) to don’t suck any cold air from inside to cool down the compressor! Place near a window, tubes outside, and find a way to isolate so no hot air comes inside! If u need some tips, i can show you my setup!

We used a portable refrigerative air con temporarily (with removable window kit & tubing), which did the job for the master bedroom when we had a newborn (waiting on the ducted installer).

Pretty sure ours was a Delonghi, but this was many years ago - so there could be better options out there today

Got a couple of delonghi pinguino ones and they're really good. Upstairs one cools two fairly decent sized rooms to a nice chilly temp and one downstairs chills the open plan downstairs and while it's not freezing (the poor AC unit isn't designed for this square footage...) it makes a pretty decent dent and brings the temp down alot. Would recommend.