Consumer Reports Window Air Conditioners 2015

To ensure that you have the best advice we surveyed almost 22 000 consumer reports members about new central air conditioning systems they bought and installed between 2007 and 2018.

Consumer reports window air conditioners 2015.

All the window air conditioners in consumer reports latest tests do a good enough job at keeping you cool. At consumer reports we test room air conditioners in a special climate controlled chamber. That s why in consumer reports special lab window air conditioners must lower the temperature inside this chamber to a set point. None of that matters if the air conditioner doesn t perform well.

Consumer reports tests the comfort level of portable air conditioners based on how a model cooled a room sized for the particular unit on its low fan setting and how accurate it came to. Our top small window air conditioner the ge aem05ls 210 gets excellent marks for cooling a room of 100 to 300 square feet is fairly quiet and bounced back. A faulty installation can damage your ac or worse it can fall out of the window. We test three sizes of window acs small medium and large and adjust the size of the chamber to the.

What distinguishes one from another is how quickly and quietly it cools a room and. A window air conditioner is different from the portable models and once there are connected you can t move them around. Results in the following chart are gathered from consumer reports 2018 summer survey of 5 249 window air conditioners owned by members who purchased a new unit between 2008 and 2018.