By working with a variety of trusted Range Plus Partners, we’re able to offer our customers a wider selection of products. For most living rooms and bedrooms, 8,000 BTU air conditioners are just right. They can cool small and medium-sized rooms while staying compact enough to fit small windows. Zafro offers all the features its more expensive competitors do. You can change between AC, fan, and dry modes and three fan speeds, and there’s a sleep mode and a timer. You can make air blow at different angles by pressing a button on the remote to swing the swiveling upper panel up and down, or let the horizontal louvers cool your room in two different directions.

Midea U sets itself apart from its competition with two things. First, it has an inverter compressor. Second, it features a U-shaped design instead of the traditional box form factor. A BTU (British Thermal Unit) is a rating used to determine the heating or in the case of an Air Conditioner the cooling capacity of an appliance. It blew enough cool air to bring my test room down to 60°F. I could see this air conditioner doing decently well, even when cooling larger rooms. Window air conditioners tend to have a better cooling capacity and energy efficiency, but portable air conditioners are easier to move and are less noticeable from the outside.I wanted to see just what this unit is capable of and tried it out in larger spaces than it’s intended for. To my surprise, it kept even a 450-sq-ft tolerable. An 8,000 BTU air conditioner is best for spaces that are 300 to 400 square feet. These could include mid-sized rooms like a master bedroom or spaces that regularly have a number of people such as a playroom. Buy It Direct Ltd is a limited company registered in England. Registered number 04171412. Registered office: Unit A Trident Business Park, Leeds Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD2 1UA.

The remote control isn’t the most responsive I’ve seen, but it does have an LCD display which is missing from most other models.The low price of this air conditioner starts to show in its long-term reliability. Mine functioned well for the testing period, but I hear quite a few grumbles about machines that simply stop working for unexplained reasons. It can fit smaller windows and is easy to install, thanks to its relatively low weight. I could see my mother (in her sixties) installing this air conditioner on her own. Hello Holly, it depends on the wattage. 13,500 BTU units usually require 1,500W to run; and about 3,000W or 4,000W for the startup. A 5,000W generator should be sufficient; you can run all kinds of other devices that require electricity on that generator. Reply When buying partner items like this one, your contract of sale will be with our Range Plus Partner instead of The Range.