Well, it’s undeniable that portable air conditioners are increasing popular day by day since ten years ago. According to “Google trends record”, some countries that familiar to use their service are; Australia, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, etc. They are currently offered in numerous choices of models, features, prices and sizes. This situation is benefit for buyers who have already idea what typical unit that they really need. It is also basically aimed to accommodate many requirements and preferences of different people. But unfortunately, sometimes it makes some costumers feel doubtful to determine and choose the best one unit of them as well, particularly the problem about the right size that will meet to their room correctly.

The sizes of portable air conditioners that available in the market usually are rated in BTU parameter (BTU stands for British Thermal Units). It is one of popular standard energy parameters. Well, perhaps you have the assumption that as bigger size of AC as higher performance of the unit to cool the room! But, it is wrong opinion! Choosing and using over size AC not only will actually waste energy that eventually will result unexpected high energy bill that usually you pay monthly but also will cause bad effect to the lifetime of the unit. On other hand, using lower size is completely ineffective, why? Lower size is not ideal condition that will make the unit works not enough powerful and hardly. It means the unit is not better than fan, hmm…Therefore, knowing and understanding the sizes before buying are absolutely critical.

Choosing the right size is important to ensure the unit can work efficiently, properly and optimally. The sizes of portable air conditioning units are available in around 5,000 BTUs up to 30,000 BTUs. Theoretically, the lower BTU rating means the less cooling capacity (or less consume energy) and on other hand, the higher BTU value indicates the higher consume electric energy or the more cooling (temperature reduction) capacity! Below is the helpful table that you can use to determine and calculate the proper and right number of BTUs size your portable ac unit needs to be.

There are some useful steps on how to figure out about choosing the right portable air conditioner size for your cooling requirement! Below are some of those simply steps:

1. The first basic procedure that must be concerned is surely about the square footage of your room. The calculation depends on the shape of the room. Example; if you have the conventional room like rectangular or square shape, then the calculation can be finished easily by only multiplying the width and the length of the room. On other hand, if you have not conventional room like triangular area, you can get the square footage value by multiplying between the width of the room and its length then divide the result by two. If you are not too familiar to calculate the square footage or your room is not square, rectangular or triangular, for further information about it you can ask to salesmen when shopping.
2. Some additional adjustments for various circumstances that you should also consider are: (a) You can reduce the capacity around 10 % if you think your area is heavily shaded and on other hand you can increase the capacity around 10 % if your room is too sunny. (b) Then consider about how many people which usually use the unit at the same time! It means better you append around 600 BTUs if the room is occupied more than two individuals regularly. (c) Consider the situation of the room, instance; if you place and use the unit in the kitchen or garage that usually has hotter temperature than other rooms in your house, then by increasing the BTUs capacity around 4,000 BTUs is smart idea. (d) The last, make ensure the unit get the proper airflow circulation if you install or place portable air conditioner in the corner of the room.

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