Tiny Air Conditioner
I'm looking for a very small air conditioner to take a bit of heat out of a small room...about 8' x 8' w 6-1/2' ceiling. I'm just looking to replace the fan that's in there now (it bothers my eyes). Physical size is important, and there's no 220v outlet nearby. Any ideas?Another possibility is that no one makes anything that will be small enough to fit. This is intended for a very small area, and it's not near a window, so I'll have to pipe the warm air out into the main room. That in itself is no big deal. The lack of a window to mount the thing is, though. I haven't run across any 4000 btu units except for floor-standing units, which unfortunately won't work. There's this one at WalMart: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4456962 but it looks too big. According to their site: Product in Inches (L x W x H): 122732.0 x 17932.0 x 11532.0 Maybe that's off by an inch or two.
Answer:
Don't remember who makes them... I remember seeing an ad for them a couple of years ago when I was looking for another an air-conditioner that was powered by an engine instead of electricity... The one I saw expected to dump the water back into the drain... Basically, instead of using air to cool the compressor and such, it used water and dumped the water elsewhere... Kind of a miniature version of the geothermal heat pumps that I had in my previous house, I guess... If so, then the water coming out is not necessarily warm enough for showers and such, but might be acceptable as the source of the 'cold' water for your hot water heater... Of course, you would have to figure out something with regards to the pressure since I do not believe that there is a water pump in the unit (i.e. it only relies on the cold water inlet pressure to move it through the system)... As such, since the hot water faucet is at the same pressure as the cold water faucet, it wouldn't go anywhere...Sounds vaguely like Burnham's Duo-Rad or Duo-Rad-2 convectors, which are actually intended to be part of a closed system, pumping water to a chiller located elsewhere. The (other) cool thing about them is that if you hook up a couple of valves, you can switch the thing to run hot water in the winter, and it doubles as a radiator.