Hisense AP55023HR1GD Smart 8 000 BTU Dual Hose Portable Air Conditioner with Heat Pump Renewed

OK - so I read other reviews and came into this purchase already critical of the product. But I wanted to give it a try since there arent many Dual Hose Portable air conditioners out there. This is what I wanted because I wanted to use it in my camper and the dual hose makes it much more efficient to cool down something that isnt very air tight (look this up if you dont know the benefit of dual hose). Thinking this thing would not work, or immediately throw error codes, I decided to try it out in my ~1200 sq ft living room before throwing out the packaging or brigning it on a camping trip. And it did the job, it wasn't as good as central AC but it kept the room comfortable in July/August heat (~90F). It worked so well it never made it into my travel trailer, and spent the entire summer cooling my living room. Now - fall and winter have arrive and I know a heat pump uses less energy than burning my furnace, so why not give it a go. THIS THING HEATS! I cant believe how well it heats my first floor, now when its 15F outside you have to lower your expectations, but in the mid 30s and 40s it heats the whole room. I am sold that this is now a part of my living room. Some little things to consider: When in AC mode it drips the condensate on the lower heat exchanger, so it evaporates and is blown outside (another dual hose benefit) so I never had to drain it. But in heat mode the exchangers are in reverse, so the condensate drips into the pan and it throws E5 errors after about 30-60 minutes. Just drain the pan with the lower drain plug (but that becomes a pain), so position this somewhere you can run a drain hose. The drain can be finicky so sometimes it needs a little help getting the water moving out the hose - I put a small piece of wood under the front wheels to tilt it back to help with this and it will run all day. Summary: Dont expect this to cool/heat your large home - but it does a fine job either in smaller spaces or supplimenting something else (in my case a wood stove in the winter, or a window AC somewhere in the opposite side of the house). Dual Hose is the biggest upside to this unit, it is insanely more efficient than a single hose unit. Take the risk - I cant speak for all of them - but at this price its a very affordable entry into a combo AC/Heat Pump unit. Read more

Update, same day as last update (just to keep you up to date) I had to open the top drain port and tilt some to ensure it was fairly empty. I also did the lower one which had a bit, just because. I'd been getting odd shutowns and bizarre panel behavior. Then I remembered this had happened last summer around this time, extremely humid here. I had tried the three reset methods, which took me a while to find (and didn't fix it). Here they are, just because I had trouble finding them. Still the drain was my fix. Reset- Power off. Unplug for 30 seconds. Can give it up to 30 if you want all the innards to discharge Reset- Remote control. Press mute and fan at the same time for about 5 seconds. You should get a beep and a light on the panel. Reset- Plug safety reset. The plug has a button on the back of it, that will cause it to click/spring the blob just above it. Wait a few seconds, then push that blob back down, should click in place, and green light. Update: I have used the heat pump this past winter. It works pretty well. It will dry the air, and you will be dumping your water tub. I recommend you make the front wheels about 1/3 inch higher than back to help it drain. I found out it does heat even down to 22 where I am, but the cost of running goes up, as some inner workings will ice up because of how cold the outside air is, and it has to run more often and shorter cycles the colder it is as well. Which adds to the cost. Unlike the summer, I did not save much switching to this and two 1500W oil radiators spaced around the house, but I didn't spend any more either. Orig. review: I am using this in a 900 s.f. house. I have a Midea inverter window rig at the other end of the house. I'm actually keeping the house 1 degree cooler than I usually do this summer, and as the summer heated up, my bills ran 17, 23, 62, and now 70 bucks cheaper than with the HVAC (which I still could use if I wanted). Plus just by chance the months all had the same average this year for monthly temps as last, other than one that was 1 degree hotter on average this year. I'm in the deep south, btw. The Midea is probably doing the journeyman's work on savings, but this does really well at that end of the house, plus has a heat pump. Last year we had maybe 29 days that would have been too cold for the heat pump to work, but probably 140 I needed heat, so I'm looking forward to real savings with the heat pump as well. Read more

First the good - for a refurbished unit, I was pretty pleased with the quality. Very minor cosmetic issues on one of the plastic pieces that you place in the window that the hoses connect to. Otherwise, it was as close to new as you can get. It's also pretty easy to install. Took me maybe 10 minutes. Plugged it in and it ran just fine. Air was blowing out at around 53°F. The bad - the claim of being able to cool a 550 sq ft room is either a typo or a lie. After running the unit for several hours and the temperature in the room falling only several degrees, I did a little research into the BTU SACC rating of this unit. Costco has a very similar Hisense 8000 BTU unit, and the coverage area states it's good for 350 sq ft. There is absolutely no way this thing can cool a 550 sq ft room. It just can't keep up. You'd need, mathematically, at least an 11000-12000 BTU SACC rating. I should have done more homework before purchasing. But if you're reading this, at least now you won't have to repeat my mistake. Overstating the coverage area by roughly 37% is inexcusable. Now I have to Tetris this thing back into the packaging and lug it down to whole foods to return it. Just an absolute pain in the neck. Or I guess more of a pain in the back, because this thing isn't exactly light. Update: Well I've had it for one full day, and the unit simply displays 81. I believe this is an error code for a faulty indoor temp sensor. What a piece of garbage this unit has turned out to be. Read more