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Portable Air Conditioners Buying Guide

Our buying guide will explain which type of portable air conditioner would suit you most, how much you can expect to pay for one, and which features are worth looking out for.

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Breezy1

Breezy1Camberwell

  • 4 reviews
  • 4 likes

Saved my sanity over summer!

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This is one excellent little portable air conditioner! It is reasonably portable (its heavy but on wheels) and comes with a window tube kit which you need to vent outside. Thats means you have to set it up near a window to use it. The hot air goes outside and the cool air comes out the front. It really is cool too! Not lukewarm like those evaporative coolers. It was easily able to bring my hot bedroom down to bearable levels and saved my sanity over summer. I could sleep as I found the noise relaxing but it bothered my wife a bit. Good machine!

Date PurchasedOct 2017
Chockies

ChockiesHawthorn

  • 4 reviews
  • 4 likes

Top level portable cooling

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We knew exactly which model to but due to extensive research - the Piu 16. This is one of a few portables that can actually cool a normal sized room on a hot day - most of them claim to but fall short. The Piu met our expectations head on and did excellent service. It comes with a little remote but we didn't bother with that. Just used the switch on the machine. Powerful solid cooling - really really good and relatively quiet too. They are all noisy but this one isnt too bad. Overall I recommend this if you must have a portable.. its very good.



Date PurchasedNov 2017
Hollowman

Hollowmanmelbourne

  • 4 reviews
  • 1 like

Portable Air-Con In Our Bedroom

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We used this most of the time in our bedroom and it did an admiral job. You just hook the window pipes up and away you go! It even come with a simple remote control so I can turn it off and on without getting out of bed. It put out more cold air than I expected from such a neat little machine and was not too noisy - I could sleep with it on just fine. Good unit!

Date PurchasedOct 2017
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Carlton65

Carlton65Melbourne

  • 4 reviews
  • 1 like

Does A Great Job In Larger Sapces

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We got this after careful research as we have a lounge room that just heats up. It handles a larger space no problem at all and was a pleasure to sit in front of during the summer. It has innovative technology that means instead of having to empty the tank it mists the water into the window hot air pipe. It comes with a not bad remote and a window kit. Overall its expensive but is does a good job

Date PurchasedNov 2017
AVD

AVD

  • 6 reviews

Survived the summer

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Date PurchasedJan 2017
Drewster69

Drewster69Hillman

  • 13 reviews
  • 4 likes

Great for bedroom

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As we have no internal cooling system at home I bought one of these units to cool the bedroom to make sleeping easier during the very hot Perth summer nights, and what a great unit it is. I put it on an hour or so before going to bed and come into a nice cool room prime for sleeping. Highly recommended :)

Date PurchasedNov 2017
William H

William HNew South Wales, 2161

  • 2 reviews
  • 1 like

Great system for a studio apartment

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Great little unit for smallish rooms or studio apartments.
Keeps my bedroom at around 20c in summer.
Easy to set up.
Just a bit confusing when a F l error message for filter cleaning pops up even when the filter is clean
This is a must product for them steamy summer days

Date PurchasedSep 2017
S1mmo

S1mmomelbourne

  • 4 reviews
  • 1 like

So Good This Summer

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My wife was bugging me to get one of these and I didn't realise just how effective these refrigerated models are. Wow, its really excellent. This transformed our bedroom from a summer hot box to pleasant and cool. Its well constructed, quite heavy for its size, easy to operate and comes with a remote control. You turn it on and within minutes you have lots of cool air. There are simple filters to clean and that's it for maintenance - no tanks to empty. A really great machine that is a lot better than I realised.

Date PurchasedDec 2017
Bingo

Bingomelbourne

  • 4 reviews

Wonderful Machine Works Very Well

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This was recommended by a friend and it really is a great machine.
There are lots of portable air conditioners on the market and its hard to know which one to choose and which ones to avoid. Well, i can certainly say that the Olimpia Piu 16 is one of the good ones.
It produces buckets of freezing cold air and is just the antidote to a heatwave. You would not think something so small could be so effective. Its quite heavy for its size but its on wheels so moving it about is not too bad. You do need to get close to window as the hot air pipe is rather short. It's easy to clean and the filters just pop out. You wash them down and you are ready to ge. Very quick and easy.
I think this is a great little machine.

Date PurchasedJan 2018
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GTHO

GTHOMelbourne

  • 4 reviews

Great Machine Cools Our Lounge

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We were recommended this Pui 16 after frustration with another brand of portable air conditioner. I must say its true! The Pui 16 really can cool the lounge room even on a 40+ day. The machine itself is very well built although the remote is a bit on the cheap side. It's pretty quiet for a portable too. One thing that we found was wrapping the hot exhaust tube with foil helped keep heat from bleeding back into the room.
There is no tank to empty as this very clever machine mists the water and send it outside with the hot air.
Overall this is one portable that actually works. Make sure you get the 16 model though. It's the most powerful one. Very happy with it,

Date PurchasedNov 2017
ish mul

ish mulsydney

  • 8 reviews

average product

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Very nice to sit in front of but didn't cool the room. Might be okay if you only want to cool the house at night when it's cool outside anyway, but too noisy to use in a bedroom. The window kit was a bit useless but we have improvised. Average buy.

Date PurchasedJan 2018
hs60

hs60

  • 6 reviews
  • 1 like

Good

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Very good air conditioning, it cools the room pretty quickly on hot days, it is also not a big aircon so it does not take alot of space in the house. Highly recommend this aircon for everyone. Very easy to use and move around the house. Love this air con.

Date PurchasedNov 2010
ishtahd

ishtahdsydney

  • 4 reviews
  • 1 like

average product

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This is a good portable air conditioner for small small apartments. Although it does a good job at cooling down the room it’s in, the air fails to travel as far as it is advertised on the website. Additionally, the unit sometimes becomes get quite loud due to the compression of air.

Date PurchasedJan 2018
Noorhan

Noorhan

  • 5 reviews

So good product

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I would truly recommend that product for everyone wants to buy this Olimpis Splendid Piu mechine.
You can use this machine in summer and winter. Makes your living room or bedroom cooler in summer and warmer in winter.
It is the best. Choose it please.
Thank you so much for your time!

Date PurchasedDec 2017
Pickleslips

PickleslipsMelbourne

  • 3 reviews

This thing leaks more than a drunk at Christmas

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The amount of water that comes out of this thing is insane. 2 litres a night at least when being used a fair bit. If you have a plug in, it won't make it through a night of operation. Does an ok job cooling, has defninitely saved us on some hot nights.
We can sleep with it on, so it's not too loud.
Not being able to direct the air is some crap.

Date PurchasedDec 2017
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Okan

OkanMelbourne

  • 2 reviews
  • 1 like

Great for small apartments

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This is a great portable air conditioner for rooms and small apartments. Although it does an excellent job at cooling down the room it’s in, the air fails to travel as far as advertised. Additionally, the unit can get quite loud at times due to the compression of air. The portability and easy installation make up for these issues however.

Date PurchasedApr 2017
Jenny

JennyPerth, WA

  • 14 reviews

Works well and keeps me cool!!!

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Date PurchasedDec 2017
melanie

melanieNewcastle

  • 8 reviews

Excellent for small rooms

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I purchased this for my daughters bedroom as our main airconditioner didnt reach her room.
It is an excellent unit. Keeps the room lovely and cold.
The unit itself is portable although i find it quite heavy myself to move to other bedrooms if needed so i keep ot in the one room.
It is a bit baulky so not really good for smaller rooms with not much floor space. Needs to be placed near a window for the hose to be placed out of.
I would say its a medium noise level. Its not quiet.
I am very happy with my purchase.
It wad quite expensive ( $899) but i did take into consideration that it was portable when i made the decision to purchase.

Date PurchasedDec 2016
kay T.

kay T.Greater Melbourne (Outer), VIC

  • 5 reviews

good very good

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this thing is very very good. like when im home after a long day and working very hard this thing is always in my home to provide me some fresh air and give me some great as s wind so that i can very much hang with my wife, thanks olympia

Date PurchasedOct 2014
IAAM

IAAMParramatta

  • 4 reviews

Below average

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I bought this item one month back and i am not at all satisfied with it. The cooling is really bad, even if i keep the temperature at 18 degrees, the room does not cool. Plus its too noisy as well. Only plus side is i avoid the installation cost and mess.

Date PurchasedJan 2018
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Olimpia Splendid Piu Eco 12

What is F1 code means? And how to resolve it? Thanks for the response

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Hi. How do I clean the filter. I can open the back grill and don’t know what to do next? Thanks

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