McDave wrote:...I didn't intend to turn this into yet another debate over Air Conditioners where we air our "feelings" and defend our decisions at all cost to include "I've heard"s and other Old Wives Tales about removing heat and not humidity...So, you can put that window shaker inside the cabin with you and tell yourself it is quieter than having all that machinery located outside, and that somehow 6000 or 8000 btu is equal to or greater than 13,500 btu, and that after you have done enough mods to deal with the drain water issues and using precious limited floor space, that it was all worth it, or you can do what the big boys do.... McDave
Au contraire,
McDave, your statement above is the only contentious opinion in this thread; on my part, all my statements were from personal experience with the types of air conditioning equipment (and I have personal experience with "swamp coolers", as well), not "feelings", "I've heards", or "Old Wives Tales". I was there to witness my grandfather's repeated bad experiences with the portable units, even sleeping in a bedroom where one unit was operating, so that's not an "I've heard", either. And, perhaps I, and maybe
flboy, both living in hotter and more humid climes may have more personal experience using A/C than some others, so there really can be no debate, just statements backed by experience. In addition, I have stated, in this thread and many others, that I really like the window units, and perhaps I am more accustomed to the background noise produced by them, and regard that noise as a soothing "white noise", that lulls me to sleep, as it did when I was a child. And now, having been preached to by a "big boy", I'll go back to sleep....