Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Hanover HANAW08A Energy Star 8,000 BTU 115-Volt Window-Mounted Air Conditioner

With fan speed set to low it's very livable. It cools very well for it's size. I've got two 12000BTU units in larger rooms of my house and this cools comparably to them in a smaller room.

The sleep function is nice, but you can't leave the speed on low to use that function and the mid and high speeds get pretty noisy simply due to the smaller units air outlets. It's all air movement noise.

There are the usual pings and pops from the compressor, but nothing abnormal. There is a louder than usual bang when the compressor turns off, but again, not excessively loud.

I'd give it 5 stars if the compressor was better balanced and the fan design was changed to lower the noise along with more thought out programming of it's features.

There was an issue the first week or so where the fan was rubbing the foam inside and it squeaked a bit, the fan has now worn down the foam that the noise no longer exists.

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