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Living in a hoa that is loaded with some weird rules... I'm stuck with a portable as traditionals are not allowed. As per noise this was a happy find overtime. A dog of mine developed thunder and fireworks issues. The noise of the ac running helped filter out the thunder/fireworks. Eventually I gravitated towards something more powerful and a bit more expensive and did some self adjusting to the machine bypassing the temperature min so to have the a/c just run continously when I needed it to. This means a room that is typically 51-52ish.

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I knew someone that had an HOA rule against window air conditioners. His solution was to keep the window-mount unit inside his bedroom, with the back end (that normally sticks outside the house) enclosed in a box. That box had an intake and exhaust fan, with flexible duct work that routed to a piece of plywood stuck up in the window. From the outside, you just see the screen with the plywood on the other side. But it worked about as effectively as if the whole unit was mounted in the window.

What kind of toxic VOCs do these units give off?

Celsius? My perfect temp is ~70 farenheit

51-52 Celsius would be heat-stroke territory.

51 Farenheit is pretty darn cold and would be insanely expensive to keep up in the South. I always forget the conversion (never use Celsius) so assumed it was warmer, but not insanely high. My apologies lol.

yea. its pricey. i make up for the cost in the winter cause i dont run heat that much which. basically the min for preventing pipes to freeze. which is fine cause i like it cold over hot. ideal weather is mid november fall day. though seems like thats been fluctuating more towards december.

Not sure where you're from, but 41-42°C would be heat stroke territory to me. (I hide in cooled buildings if it's >30°C outside.)

They're pointing out that 50C is not really a liveable temperature so by definition "a room that is typically 51-52ish" can not be celsius, especially not as this is with AC given the context.

That much was clear, but 50C is well beyond where heat strokes start to be a thing, so it sounded weird. Perhaps they're from a place like saudi arabia where there are populated places and it can actually ever get close to 50°C? Hence my remark.

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