Updated Portable AC units are popular recently because it's summer and a bathtub outside, and because they don't block your entire window. Also they are more cost-effective than central air as they only air condition the rooms that you are using. There are so many types of portable air conditioners available, and each have their own ways of simplifying the steps of condensation removal, dehumidification, water-tray emptying frequency, filter cleaning, and remote operation, so choosing the right one can be daunting.Based on Comparaboo's analysis of over 90,000 customer reviews, expert articles, brand, and product reputation, the best portable AC unit is the Honeywell MM14CCS 14,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner with Remote Control.This portable air conditioner is 65.5 lbs and can cool, dehumidify, and fan areas of up to 550 sq ft. The unit dehumidifies up to 79.2 pints a day, and air flows at 265 CU ft per minute. The fan has a choice of three speeds, and the cooling temperature can be set from 61° - 89°Fahrenheit.

The portable unit sits on wheels, may be remote control operated, may be run on a timer, and has an auto-evaporation system that uses an easy-to-install window venting kit and flexible exhaust hose that reduce the need for water drainage. This window venting kit can be used in front of a metal screen and the exhaust will not melt the screen.This is the window installation kit it comes with. Everything snaps together and set up should take 5-10 minutes. This is how an older model looks with the exhaust hose and window kit set up. cover for ac window unit(The Honeywell MM14CCS has a digital LED display.)low power ac unitThe auto-evaporation system is designed to not drip, comes with a condensation tray that does not have to be changed frequently, and its pull-up filter is easy to remove and washable. ac power supply price

This shows the pull-up filter feature.This portable AC unit does not leak, and user reviews raved about their lower electricity bills and having to empty the condensation tray infrequently.The parts it comes with are: Cooling unitWindow bracket kitWindow bracket panel adapterPlastic pins (no screws!)HoseHose connector__Check out the Best Portable AC Units 2015 list to see what else made the Top 10.Written I have found them all about the same(not that great). I used to rent a house and the central air conditioner just wasn't enough. A street facing window unit was out of the question. Therefore, I decided to try a portable unit with the "dryer" like vent.My ExperienceThe room was cooler. However, I experienced a lot of issues. Over a period of 2 summers, I purchased 4 different brands. I found the following to be true for all of them.Regardless of how quiet it says it is, it is going to be extremely loud.All of them leak like crazyThey never reach the desired temperature and had to run constantly to keep the room coolNot a very attractive addition to any roomWhy Purchase 4 Units?

Every model I purchased started leaking at some point. I had one model that collected the water and when full you emptied. However, it still leaked. Another model was supposed to take care of the water itself and had a backup collection system. This unit also leaked.At the time, I went online and researched the subject and if other people were having problems with leaks. I found match after match of people with the same issue. There seemed to be no fix. You could replace the unit. I did this too and it had the same exact problem.I finally purchased a hot water heater drip pan and placed under the unit. This collected the water, but it was a nightmare and I still ended up with major water damage.Living in Atlanta, Georgia, I wasn't sure if the high humidity caused problems or what. I finally abandoned the units.My RecommendationIf you can afford just a little bit more money, I would strongly encourage you to look into split systems. It's like a conventional unit, doesn't have any duct work to install, isn't that loud, doesn't need any venting and keeps the condenser on the outside.

It has 3 parts. First, there is the inside part which hangs on the wall like a register or vent. Second, there is a small pipe and connection which runs outside. Finally, there is a small condenser on the outside.While more expensive, the price is not that much higher than most portable units.Written Not as cheap a window unit, but a split coil that’s indoor unit is wall mounted would be best. runs much like central air but is made for one area.Read Jason’s answer below.(Washington Post illustration; iStock) It’s time to come out of the closet. Or, more precisely, the sweat lodge. My family lives without air con­ditioning, except for one antique, ­semi-comatose window unit that “cools” the bedroom to approximately the same temperature as Dallas at dusk. Our house in Philadelphia was built in the 1920s, when people were tough and resourceful. For most of the year, the house is cool and pleasant, as long as there isn’t a mash-up of continuously scorching days and epic humidity, when the air is putrid, stagnant and, if it were a color, would definitely be mustard.

Which would be this summer. Which, so far, is the fourth-hottest summer on record in the Washington area. Emphasis on so far. NASA reports that July was the Earth’s hottest in recorded history. Cheer up, people say to those of us without air conditioning, September’s coming. Except people forget that most of September is still summer. [July was ‘absolutely’ Earth’s hottest month ever recorded] There are people among you, friends even, who live without artificial cooling during what are affectionately known as the dog days of summer. One-third of American households don’t have air conditioning, according to the Energy Department. Many of those, of course, can’t afford it, but people don’t like AC for a variety of reasons beyond cost: environmental, aesthetic, nostalgic, social and cultural. And, yes, to humble-brag, which I may be doing right now, about our greater tolerance, lower carbon footprint and puny electric bills, which are half the temperature outside. Clinical social worker Olivia Snyder lives on the fifth floor of a Philadelphia apartment building with southern exposure and no air conditioning.

It gets so hot, she says, “I don’t want to turn on the burners, let alone the oven.” But window units offend her. “Air conditioners are ugly. I really like the view,” she says. Also, “I hate sleeping with the noise. I’m super-weird about noise.” There are people who are living without air conditioning in places far hotter than the East Coast. In 2009, Chris George, now a Washington Post digital editor, voluntarily gave up air conditioning for a year while living in the inhumane heat of Tempe, Ariz., mostly out of environmental concern. “I’ve been called many variations of the word ‘insane,’ ” George wrote in the Arizona Republic of the experiment, during which temperatures reached 103 degrees inside his home. But he also learned that “comfort is really just what you’re used to.” There are a thousand reasons my family does without central air. Installing central air would be a profoundly expensive enterprise, involving a cavalcade of zeros and most likely new, less-beautiful windows.

When our children ask why we’re still sweating it analog-style, and our house feels like a Tennessee Williams stage set but without the fetching undergarments and crippling dysfunction, we answer, “College tuition, vacations, cheese. You know, things like that.” Also, I don’t like the hermetic feel of central air, the way it reduces everything to an artificial hum and makes you feel isolated from the environment, your body’s natural responses and, depending on your age, all the summers of your youth. Air conditioning is not sultry or mysterious. It has no place in pulp fiction or film noir. The movie “Body Heat” is set in a small Florida town in 1981 yet is completely devoid of central air, which manages to make absolutely everything seem sexy — ice cubes, sweat, even wind chimes, which are generally just annoying. There are positive aspects of going without. I can’t tell you how rewarding showers feel. And ice cream tastes way better. Air conditioning made Americans greedy and silly.

Once the country got hooked on central air, strange things materialized: windows that don’t open, the office sweater in August, summer colds, Las Vegas, football in Phoenix. “We don’t use air conditioning because it makes it too hot outside,” says Stan Cox, quoting a vintage survey response, and he’s on to something. Cox wrote the book “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World” on the negative effects of air conditioning: It uses 5 percent of all our electricity, costs American homeowners $11 billion and wreaks havoc on a planet that did far better before it came along. [Your air conditioner is making the heat wave worse] “Being in air conditioning most of the time in the summer reduces your tolerance for heat,” he says. Culturally, “there’s been an impact on neighborhoods and communities, resulting in much less outdoor social interaction.” Cox grew up in Georgia, “where we sat on the front porch in the evening seeing each other.”

For many of us, darting through sprinklers and hoses was a staple of summer evenings. There was this imperative to go to movie theaters or public fountains and pools, to be with other people and share in the physical toll of the season. Cox’s home in Salina, Kan., has central air, which he turns on precisely once a year, “to see that it’s in proper working order,” and “maybe to have people over for dinner.” He doesn’t like air conditioning in the car. Or in his office at the Land Institute, where he works as a crop specialist. “I have kind of a blanket hanging over the vent, which would blow right on the back of the neck,” he says. Caroline Stern is in a mixed marriage. Her husband, Gerald Cohen, adores air conditioning; Their Yonkers, N.Y., home has a unit in their son’s room, and one in Cohen’s office, but their bedroom is without. “I don’t feel like it’s very healthy to sleep with it on,” says Stern, an executive assistant at Columbia University. Living without affords its own strange luxuries.