Is this the one some of you are using? https://www.costco.ca/danby-12%2c000...100715465.html

I’m thinking about getting one as all of our bedrooms are upstairs and by evening the temperature increase as you ascend the stairs is noticeable every few steps :blush:

That's the one!

I would have to confirm, but I think every day for the past 2 weeks has beat previous record highs. For instance today's high will be 35. The previous record for July 28 was 32, back in 2008. The average for this date is 30.

Eventually the average will become 35 FeelsBadMan

i red on RFD to keep it not on auto but on cool so you don't get a lot of water buildup.
also read that unless you're in a humid climate the water evaporates on it's own? 2nd summer with it and never checked on it.

should i throw a pan down and open up the bottom plug just in case?

I have an older Danby unit and a new Delonghi I purchased this year.
The Danby still 'works', however it stopped autoevaporating water in the last two years. So it would basically leak onto the floor due to all the condensation build up. So for that unit, I bought a large bin to put the unit in, and have the hose connected that dispenses into a tank that I need to dump out every other day. The older Danby actually cools better than the new Delonghi :-\

I don’t know how some of these units don’t have to be constantly emptied

I have a Haier dual hose one, really good one my parents gave us. Over 2 nights it fills up a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket. My buddy had a single hose one with a self contained water tank and he said he hasn’t had to empty it once since he’s got it. Must work in a different way

^yeah but thats a good thing. that means you are literally extracting water from the air and lowering your humidity. The cheaper units dont do diddly squat and ultimately just blow hot air around.

My current unit that i got like 5-6 years ago doesnt produce much water either and it SUCKS! cant wait for my new danby one to come in.

They inject the water into the exhaust air stream, it vaporizes and goes out. At least, that's what my portable AC does.

:suspicious:

Sorry, "inject" is the wrong technical term.

They "Evaporate" the condensate into the exhaust air stream.

https://www.sylvane.com/fully-self-e...-benefits.html

I also have a Haier dual hose one that I use for the main floor. This is the 4th summer I've owned it and the first time ever I've had to empty the pan. I've checked in previous summers but there was no water coming out. The only reason there was lots of water this summer was because my daughter accidently changed the setting from cool to something else and then the water build up went off in a matter of hours.

Also have 2 x Toshiba single hose ones I've used for 3 summers, checked and no water still aside from a few drips.

I empty mine out every time I put it back into storage. Usually no more than a few Tbsp of water each time. This morning I noticed some leaking and just emptied out about a cup and a half of water. This only after about 2 weeks of sporadic use. Go figure

Single Hose Danby 2018 model

Good to know!

I hooked up the clear drain hose to the backside of the unit and it hasn't emptied any water yet, but I suppose I have been only running it on cool only so far.

It's likely a combination of factors.

Single hose ones run interior air over the condenser cooling it, and exhaust the heat out. Essentially it's cooling cooled air, so less moisture to remove from the air. Dual hose ones intake from the outside, which is arguably more humid.

Also newer/more expensive units have a "self evaporating"; my understanding is that the water collected is dripped onto the hot condenser coil which then evaporates the water into the exhaust outlet. If it's very humid and the unit isn't able to evaporate faster than it's collecting, then it collects the water.

But I stress - IF you run your AC on auto, you will get water. It should be run on cool mode, but arguably that uses more power.

Also, for those saying "I have little water", try opening the port and very lightly tilting the unit. My old Whynter dual hose also didn't have any water, but if you tip it back a bit like 5 cups would come out.

On the news they were saying the humidity has been much higher than normal the last week or so so it’s probably forced to pull some of it out of the air?

i just called Costco. they said they are expecting another batch of air conditioners (they dont know if it'll be this Danby one) to be shipped from their Langley Distribution on Sunday this week. Likely arrive to the store monday or tuesday.

Thus if anyone wants to grab one in person, call your store on sunday and see if they know exactly when it'll come in.

I’ve never once checked for any water in any of the Costco danby units I have ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We are using a small Sharp unit in the kid's room and I emptied about 1 liter from it last night. We typically do have to empty it once a year but this year has been insane.
The old single hose Danby we had before never needed to be emptied, but after 3 years it started leaking. I wonder if it did the evaporative thing but broke after 3 years and just started dripping out the bottom instead.

Our thermostats have humidity readings and it's been in the 60's range for the last 2 weeks.

The mini split in our master bedroom has stayed on for the last 4 days. No point turning it off, letting the room get warm and then wasting energy trying to cool it off again.

I found when I was in a condo there was no water at all, but since moving to a house there's been more, maybe just more humid?

If major stores are out of stock, you can also try Refrigerative supply, masters , WWG, Sopers.
You can partially blame the HVAC industry for a shortage of portable units, I'm in my shop right now, and we have 9 brand new units in boxes lol, down from the 16 at the start of the season

This year is much more humid than most, portable AC units are removing much more latent heat, than sensible heat, hence the condensate issues for some of you guys

Some of those portable units aren't designed for excessive amounts of latent heat (humidity), hence the need to be drained on occasion

What I want to know, is where are all the doomsday sayers that were posting about how Costco units all have bad reviews lol

I didn't for years as well. Until one year it shut off with a red flashing light, and was in a pool of water.

In BC climate, the dual hose units usually drain themselves. Under super humid conditions, (and perhaps turning off during humid condition), the exhaust hose can’t pick up enough moisture so it collects in the “bin.” The danby is a dual hose unit, the single hose is split down the middle.


All single hose units should require emptying constantly, unless they just aren’t workin. Lol!(edit - wrong lol)

That's not true, lots of single hose units self evaporate their condensate. My LG is single hose and does this.

My single hose RCA blows ice cold and I empty it once a week... barely fills up half a cup of water.

It sounds like we might have some refrig technicians here so I’ll ask this :

Is there anyway to recharge the free-on or whatever the juice is inside the portable ac units ? It’s easy enough to do in a car but for these portable units I can’t seem to find any way to service them.