A particular brand of madness

[arasus]

This is how you know I'm an engineer.  Today I purchased and unpacked a 10,000 BTU "portable" (i.e. not a window unit) air conditioner.  It had several pieces and a bag of screws.  It did not come with assembly instructions.  My first thought after not finding instructions was, "Muahaha.  This will make it INTERESTING!"

Comments

[drobviousso]

So how did it go? Also, just out of curriosity, how big is your appartment? My gut says 10k Btu might cool off the whole thing.

[arasus]

I got it constructed...with some extra parts at the end. One of them looks like a dispenser tray for a dehumidifier, but I did not find any water exhaust anywhere. It's really humid so I think I would have noticed it leaking by now if it were.

My apartment is about 100sqft + 150sqft + my kitchen and bathroom... I'd say around 350, which in theory can be cooled by 10k btu. However there are some annoying air-circulation bottlenecks. I'm gonna get one or two extra fans to try and help with that.