Hey so I just picked up a portable AC and have some questions about it. It’s going into my grow room but I’m wondering about the vent part that goes on the back, well it didn’t come with one and the people I got it from said I didn’t need the but I could hook one up and run it out the window but I am wondering the difference of if I was to do that or not. They also said that it doesn’t leak much water that I might only have to drain it every couple of months but I am wondering about these things if someone can help me. I’m also wondering about how many watts do you think this pulls from the wall? I’m getting pretty maxed out on my watch with my lights so just trying to get an estimate of how many it might pull. Thank you @dbrn32 @OGIncognito @Myfriendis410
You should totaly use the ehaust vent and vent it out cause they normally expell hot air from the vent. Depending on size of u it is how many watts.
An AC unit is a heat exchanger. You are (supposedly) using it to reject heat in the grow space. That heat has to go somewhere. Putting it back in the grow space will do nothing unless you vent it to a different area.
They make these different ways. Without seeing I’m not sure what you have, but I agree it will work much better if you’re able to vent the warm expelled air out.
I’m guessing the amount of condensate will be determined by the amount of moisture in air. We had these at a previous shop I worked and when it was hot and humid would fill up daily but maybe 1-2 times per week when it was dry.
There should be a nameplate or tag on the cord that lists voltage and full load current. The formula for watts is volts x amps. This is what it would draw when compressor is loaded.
What if I cut a hole in my wall and just put it right in front of the hole or vented inside the walls
As long as it goes outside the room ur fine…
Use a 6” vent and hose, you’re probably looking at around 8 amps of draw 
Okay so 8 amps would be how many watts? And yeah my attic is right above where I’m at so maybe I can just fence it up into the Attic
120 volts times 8 amps: 960 watts approximately due to phase-angle of ac current.
I probably got to figure out how to reach it to another breaker then cuz you know I still never fixed the one that messed up on me last week. Yeah I don’t think I should hook this AC up to the same break of the lights is on. I think I’m only pulling around 900 w with my lights maybe if you add my fans and side lights make and say I’m at around 1100 Watts so far. So I’m not sure how many watts a 20 amp breaker is capable of holding
If youre running it frequently expect your electric bill to increase by a few hundred dollars a month those things are not energy efficient at all
Usually it’s about 3/4 of the rating on the breaker.
I run one just like the one pictured, mines a AC and Heat Pump, but it has to be vented or your taking heat from the air and exhausting right back into the air! I ran my vent through the flower room wall and into a 15 gallon barrel that I filled with activated carbon and put an inline fan on top which pulls air through the barrel and vents outside. Everything in my flower room is exhausted through the carbon barrel to deal with smell. I installed a drain hose through the floor so I don’t have to empty water, did the same with the dehumidifier so low maintenance.
Yep going to need one of these. I hope they knocked 20 bucks off for not having the vent hose.
You can buy a piece of duct work cut hole drop it in the hole hook flex duct to it…
Should work ok…
I just hooked mine to my central air…
Works great for me
But it m in warm climate…
Happy Growing
It throws out humid air I have 2 of these one in my lung room and one in my room addition. You will definitely want vent it outside mine came with window insert. Does that one double as heat?
Ps mine also will leak on the floor sometimes especially on humid days.
Remember youre exhausting non scrubbed air. If youre worried about exhausting smell, i would look into some sort of inline scrubber. Im stopping growing in the summer because fighting heat, even with a port ac along with the cost isnt worth the stress.
@ChittyChittyBangin no I’m not too much worried about the smell, just wanted to get an AC control of its own for that room. I also have central air in there in the fan for that is on 24/7. My room stays around 78 to 81 when the lights are on. I really wanted this AC so I can drop the temps down to 72 and lower than that as I get deeper into flower you know. Then I figured this little portable AC will help stretch out my dry time