How about this for cooling the equipment room?

[stlouisguy]

http://www.air-n-water.com/product/MAC-8000.html

Has continous drain which is nice. The room I need to cool is about 100 sq ft so I think this would do the job

Opinions?

 

[Chelsey]

I know nothing about heating or cooling but I know we have a portable AC/DH unit for our room above the garage in our new house and it works great!

 

[scbadiver]

That looks pretty cool. It also looks like it would fit right onto the dryer vent hose, which in my case is conveinently located right by my equiptment. For the price I might be tempted to try that for my shop and fish room, being portable is a big plus. If you get it, let me know how it works for you. Thanks.

 

[Nanook]

Clark, is there anyway you can do a small split-system AC unit?

I did a LOT of research and talked with a lot of people before deciding that was the "best" option. They do cost more, but I believe they are worth the added expense.

Dave

 

[Nanook]

This is what I bought:
http://www.mrslim.com/Products/item...tegoryID=76&ProductCategoryID=7&ProductID=978

 

[Sk8r]

You can get a more powerful one at Lowe's, that will easily chill down a 10x10 room with people in it, just fyi....we use it as backup for the airconditioner in our shotgun apt. You need to have a place to send the exhaust...which comes out burning hot.

 

[stlouisguy]

I would love to do a split system, but $500 compared to $2500 is quite a bit of differance.

The space I am going to need it for is small and I dont need to get all the water from the air along with I can tap into my air ducts in the room for additional cooling in the summer if needed.

The $2000 differance makes the room ac too attractive to not try I think.

 

[stlouisguy]

Okay the more I look into a split system the more it seems to make sense, if nothing else for the sound level. Question though, where does all the water from the room go, to the unit outside and drains from there? That would be ideal as I dont have a drain readily available in the fish room

Dave, help me out understanding this thing. It also says it can run on 110 which would be great, but does it need to be wired into the panel or does it plug in?

Thanks

 

[Letmegrow]

Maybe a fridgid mother-in-law ?

That air splitter thing nook has is amazing.

 

[Nanook]

My split has a drain off the unit inside the house. I have it draining to a Beckett pump/reservoir that collects the water and when it reaches a certain level, pumps it via clear vinyl tubing up and along the ceiling to the back room drain. This is a nice feature that I will not need in the future because I will just have it drain passively to my tubsink.

It is wired directly to it's own circuit and is operated by a remote control...it doesn't plug in directly like a window AC unit.

It is whisper quiet and can cool my whole basement if I want it to, but I just wanted it mainly for how much heat all of the equipment would generate and how much evaporation it would have to handle. Basically, I calculated all the wattage of pumps, heaters, lights, etc, along with the room size, water volume and approximated evaporation rate, gave it to an engineer and went with the 12,600 BTU unit.

Then I bought the split and had our HVAC guy put it in place.

Dave

 

[stlouisguy]

Thanks Dave, so it drains from the inside unit huh. That sucks but oh well. Will look into this more tonight