Midea Inverter Portable AC

I live in Sw Florida and have a 24 ft cargo trailer that i converted the front half into an RV for a business i started and needed a portable a/c to make it livable when in use. I first went with the Shinco 10k BTU portable a/c because of the price, i bought here on Amazon for only $230 lol, i got it, cut out a circular hole out of the floor and used a marine "porthole" with a cap that unscrews to vent the exhaust pipe throught the floor, and the cap screws back on when not in use. The machine was nice and quiet when running and blew cold air out but simply could NOT cool that little space (12x8 area), even with it being an insulated cargo trailer that i paid extra for. I was extremely disappointed and gave it a few days running and even at night it would barely be comfotable in there. I boxed it back up in disgust and sent it back! I started researching portable a/c's and quickly dicovered that it couldnt cool because of it's poor design (you get what you pay for!), it used the interior air for the heat exchange and dumped out enough hot air underneath the trailer to rival a clothes dryer which meant every bit of air that was sucked out and exhausted from the interior meant the interior needed to "make up" that amount of air on drawing in new hot moist air from the exterior through the cracks, it shot itself in the foot, extremely POOR DESIGN! On top of this, the exhaust hose created an enormous amount of heat itself, what a nightmare! This Midea unit uses a "dual hose design" 2 in 1 and it takes the outside air for the heat exchange then blows it back out through the same hose (there's actually 2 hoses inside the main hose, 1 for intake, 1 for exhaust) and no heat from the exhaust hose. This Midea unit with the dual hose design is amazing, it instantly starts cooling and within 15 min started up at MID DAY its already comfortable, in an hour its as cool as your home a/c in the 70's and living in South Florida is brutal in August, it's been 98 degrees here with near 100% humidity. This unit EASILY makes cool air to spare, i highly recommend it!

If anyone is buying this Midea Duo large portable AC please note the covers of hose outlets are completely open and all types of bugs and critters can get inside. So unless you have a fitted screen on the window you will have to rig something up. I called Midea support but they were not so helpful suggesting rectangular air vent filters which would not work. My solution was to cut up an old portable sliding window screen and use the mesh which is flexible enough to clamp on outside of vent hose. I have attached photos of before and after. Seems to be doing its job. The window attachment clips on the hose are not that tight and also there are a few gaps around edges of clips and on one corner of hose so some duct tape to secure it is also advisable. The provided insulation tape and window foam are not the best quality and the window foam is much too thin so be prepared to buy some better alternatives. The good news is it seems to be cooling well. It was 90 deg yesterday and I set the AC to 72 and it is set up by open door and made 2 rooms comfortable within an hour. No issues with any leaking on dry setting. For the cost I think quality control could be a bit better and better grade materials provided in box. Also be aware box has to be upright and watch the bottom corners for impact as not so much padding at bottom of box and wheels can get damaged easily. Initially pleased with the purchase in 2023. I would advise taking Amazons additional warranty though Asurian for peace of mind for 3 or 4 years as only 1 year provided by Midea. Update July 2025…..compressor no longer comes on and have only used for 2 seasons July August September so about 6 months total usage and cleaned and covered when stored. Today after setting up for summer compressor would not come on and tried all troubleshooting and calling Midea but no solution and as I paid over $600 for this not a very reliable product. Luckily I purchased the Amazon Assurion extended warranty and I was fully refunded within 15 minutes of calling. Downgrade my review and would advise to look elsewhere

I wish I had bought this unit seasons before I did. It is superior to a one hose unit in every way possible. 1. It doesn't create an air pressure vacuum in the room. I can shut the door with ease. I don't feel air being sucked in through every crack, crevice and window. 2. The hoses are housed in a covering that doesn't get hot. 3. The ease and speed with which it is able to cool the room is incredible. 4. Using the app to control it is suuuper easy and much better than looking around for a remote (though it does come with one). 5. The vent / swing is designed in a way that it puts out way more air than past units I've had. 6. The parts used to create the window covering around the two hoses is all superior to past units I've had. It's a strong metal instead of plastic and I feel that helps a lot with preventing air leakage. I love how it slowly ramps up from start to fully blasting instead of abruptly slamming on. There is a slight buzzing sound at times- but I've gotten used to it and to be honest if that's the only con for all of the pros I'm getting...I'm okay with that. I overheat VERY easily and I've never had my bedroom be this cool without having to seal it up like a biodome...and even then the units I had were working 24/7 to keep it cool whereas the Midea dual hose seems to be able to do it fairly quickly and then turn off. Also my electric bill is still low / reasonable. So yes, the hype about a dual hose is real. They are superior in every way and this unit in particular is obviously well designed and made with high quality materials. I spent a lot of time researching portable AC's and sat on the fence for too long over whether to go with a dual hose. I had probably been using the unit for less than ten minutes before I knew I had made the right decision to invest in this unit.

I received my unit from Amazon on 7/15 and have run it for the last couple of days. As is seemingly usual for portable AC units, the box came in a somewhat-distressed state (one corner completely bashed in) but did not seem to impact the functionality of the unit, so I'll consider myself fortunate. Impressions thus far: - Unit cools down my 450sq ft south-facing room without a problem. This room has insulation issues so I won't bother quoting cooldown times. - Runs fairly quiet - I guess as an inverter system the compressor sound isn't prominent but it's still there. On low speeds it comes across as slight "chirping" noises - not sure if that's the inverter board power or the compressor itself but it isn't offensive. On hotter days the condenser fan will occasionally go full beans and causes the unit to make even more noises but that's momentary and I'm not bothered by it. - At higher speeds, I can point the vents upward toward my vaulted ceiling and can feel air come down along walls in different parts of the room - pretty neat. - The oblong dual hose-in-hose design is interesting. I initially thought I could only point the AC unit "straight into the room" with the AC unit directly below the vent hole on my window but turns out if you extend out the hose long enough, say 4ft, there is some play in the hose to bend it horizontally such that the AC unit can be turned somewhat to a more desirable location of the room. This, of course, comes at the expense of having the unit placed further into the room it's what I prefer anyway. The hose is quite stiff though so side-to-side action is a bit difficult. - I love the Auto Fan mode - when it gets closer to my cooling set-point it'll slowly ramp down the fans as well as the compressor speeds. - Unit does 2.4Ghz WiFi and can be controlled via Midea's app. App generally works ok for basic functions (for what I briefly tested) but I haven't tried the Alexa integration. - Remote works well - I found you don't have to point it directly to the unit: point up, down, off to the side away from the unit, whatever - it seems the AC unit receives remote commands no matter what. Almost seems it's not IR-based. What I don't like or improvements: - Glossy black. With the exception of the faceplate (matte black) the whole unit is gloss black. After two days, the unit picks up fingerprints, lots dust, and is easily scratched by an accidental scrape of the fingernail and is easily seen during the daytime. Ironically, the color choice for the remote and power cord? White. - Though the louvers have a decent up-down range of blowing air, there are no adjustments for side-to-side so the only option is to point the whole unit toward the part of the room you need the direct air flow. - A bit on the pricey side. I guess if you want the inverter system, you'll have to pay more. In all, decent unit. Will get to play with it through summer but so far I like the unit.

Better than I expected. I’m using it for a living room of about 300 sq ft. When I setup it up, the temperature in the living room was 94 degrees Fahrenheit. The outside temperature was 92. Three hours later the living room temperature is 80. I suspect it will drop lower. I put the unit in the balcony door. Just followed the casement instructions and added corrugated cardboard, which is an insulator, to fill in the door space. That door gets direct sunlight from about 1pm to dusk. So it really gets hot at those hours. The sliding door is 6’ x 7’. Thats a lot of sunlight and glass The only downside side is the plastic clamps. They take some work to get them to hold. Will eventually use some insulation tape. To hold the exhaust fixture in place. That’s a small price to pay for a fabulous unit. Because the unit was not designed for a balcony door, I’m using my 3D printer to make clamps and door guides for a better fit. Now that the room is cooling off, the fan speed has dropped and it is much quieter than I expected. I can’t say enough about this. Granted, it’s only the first day. I will update it again. So far, it’s handling Savannah, Georgia’s debilitating summer heat and humidity. Right now, my central air has succumbed to Savannah’s heat, and it may be weeks before it’s rehabilitated. This has been an absolute life saver. I’m now contemplating getting a second unit for the bedroom. The unit there, out of respect I will not mention the name, is not up to the task. When the central AC is restored, I will keep these and move them to my workshop in the garage.

We live in a Craftsman style house built in 1900 and heated by a boiler with cast iron radiators. As such there are no conduits for central air conditioning. To cool the rooms we spend the most time in we have two portable air conditioners. We had an 8,000 BTU unit in the downstairs living room that just was not doing the job. Midea is unique with their design because the machine pulls air from the outside and then exhausts back outside. This makes the room air pressure even. The 8,000 BTU unit we had pulled the air from inside the house and then exhausted to the outside. This created negative air pressure in the house. Because of the negative air pressure the air conditioner pulled replacement air from the fireplace chimney, making the room smell like burnt wood. Our new 14,000 BTU Midea unit cools the room much better and we no longer have the burnt wood smell in the room.

This is what a $649 air conditioner looks like! The unit itself is really nice but what’s the point if the entire product doesn’t meet high quality standards? Midea dropped the ball when finishing this design and quality is very poor. Very cheap plastic parts & do not stay together. As you can see in the pictures, I am using duct tape to hold it together & is unacceptable. Also, the venting hose is a monster and should allow for five more feet so people can move the unit & accommodate more consumers. Overall, the unit is quiet and cold. They should have SELF EVAPORATING TECHNOLOGY because having to move this and empty is going to be a huge pain. In fact, their customer service rep explained only having to empty the bucket and made it sound like it was a removable piece. Instead, this will have to be lifted to allow for a hose to drain out. Unbelievable! I wish the other manufacturer didn’t ruin their design by not offering black, they also made a couple other changes but on the whole, their unit is better and worth having self evaporating technology. I am so frustrated with the attachment parts and took hours to put in & could only get this to stay together with tape! Stupid

Unit was absolutely great, got me through one of the hottest summers in 2023. But.... About a month after the warranty was up, I started getting P1 error codes every 6 hours. P1 error code means the drip tray is full with water. Okay, fine, I just need to empty it more often. Then, it started every hour. That isn't great - it has a top hole to empty overflow, but to fully empty, you need the bottom plug; it's is about half an inch from the ground. Meaning it can't gravity feed into a bucket unless you put it on a table/shelf. So I bought a cheap'ish end table to perch this thing on and tried to gravity feed it into a bucket. That worked. Kinda. During the following week, it didn't quite push air like it used to. About a week later, another error code came up. When I looked it up, I found a myriad of different reasons that could point to the problem - dirty filter, damaged coils, leaking coolant, etc. The first step was to remove the air filter (which I have cleaned bi-monthly). I did and found ice on the upper air intake. The Midea support said this happens when the air filter is dirty and won't allow air-flow (it wasn't), the coils are damaged (I don't think so? This thing has been sitting there for a year and I don't touch it), the drip tray is full (covered previously), or there is a coolant leak (which is unfixable). It feels like the last one.

Après une utilisation intensive pendant les fortes chaleurs, je peux confirmer que le Midea Duo 14 000 BTU est de loin le meilleur climatiseur portatif que j'ai eu l'occasion de tester. 1. Gestion de la température & Adaptabilité (Inverter) Le système à double tuyau (Duo Hose) associé au compresseur Inverter fait toute la différence. Contrairement aux appareils traditionnels qui fonctionnent en "tout ou rien", la technologie Inverter adapte sa puissance en continu. L'appareil réagit extrêmement bien aux variations de la température extérieure et ajuste son effort pour maintenir exactement la température désirée à l'intérieur. 2. Fiabilité de la domotique & Application La partie connectée est irréprochable. L'application mobile est très stable, la connexion Wi-Fi ne décroche pas et l'intégration avec les assistants vocaux (Alexa) fonctionne à la perfection. Pouvoir programmer des routines ou démarrer la climatisation à distance quelques minutes avant d'arriver chez soi est un réel confort. 3. Fiabilité globale & Silence La construction est solide et bien pensée. Une fois la pièce rafraîchie, le compresseur réduit son régime et le niveau sonore devient très bas (un simple bruit de fond continu). Le système d'évaporation d'eau fonctionne également très bien, évitant de devoir vider un réservoir constamment en mode clim. Les points forts : - Refroidissement rapide grâce au double tuyau (pas de dépression d'air chaud). - Thermostat ultra-précis qui s'adapte en temps réel à la température extérieure. - Application mobile et domotique ultra-stables. - Silencieux et économe grâce au compresseur Inverter. En résumé : un investissement amplement rentabilisé. Puissant, intelligent et fiable. Je le recommande les yeux fermés !

This was a great air conditioner for the 15 minutes it ran. That's right, 15 minutes. After spending a few hours jury-rigging a vent setup in my bedroom, I was quite pleased with myself for my hard work. After 10 minutes the AC started making a somewhere unusual, rhythmic thumping noise -- uh-oh -- so I sat down and started google: "Midea Duo loud," "portable AC louder than expected," "AC unit fan loud" -- BANG! BANG! BANG! Holy cow, I nearly fall out of my seat. It was like a mini explosion went off inside the unit, but even with how it jerked about like it was fighting an alien in its chest it kept on running, each jerk getting more violent than the last until I tore the plug out of the wall. It's pretty clear from peering down the hose what happened. The fan blower must have had pre-existing damage, because it is DESTROYED. Blown to smithereens. I can see bits of it all over the place as shattered plastic. The unit must not have any features to detect this sort of damage, because it kept running (and shaking violently) even after the blower had been badly damaged. Here is the first thing you'll learn about Midea's warranty system if you have to make a claim: (1) they have bank hours, Mon-Fri, so if you're setting this up before a long weekend you're out of luck until after the heatwave to put in your ticket. Hope you don't mind calling during your work hours because of their shoddy work! (2) If you happen to find a form to submit a message instead, good luck filing it. The webform was broken and I could not submit the model number clearly marked on the side of the unit, even though I had no problem registering the unit in my name before I tried to make the ticket. About this model itself and ease of installation: I bought this model because it has an impressive hose-in-hose design (making it more efficient than other portable AC units in a similar price range), but this same design makes it much more difficult to install in a non-standard windows (any non-sliding window). To be fair, Midea is very clear in the listing and manual about this unit being for a sliding window, so please keep in mind that from their perspective your use of this unit is not their problem (fair enough). If you are using a canvas window seal kit you will want to avoid the ones with a standard duct size (get one that has a zipper instead) or else you will need to cut a hole to make this AC's non-standard sized hose fit the kit. Again, to be fair, I bet you installation is VERY easy in a sliding window as this AC unit is shipped with a variety of hardware to make it easy to install. About PRICING: at the time I made my order three weeks ago, I paid a little under $800. The current listed price is over $1200 only three weeks later (a $400 increase). I don't know about you, but to me this looks like there is some price gauging going on here as we head into the hotter months. Good to know Midea is a company which engages in this anti-consumer practice.

This air conditioner is one of the best we've had. We bought one to replace our aging ac in the bedroom and it works great. It's so much more quiet than the old one too. It works so well we thought we would try one in our open concept kitchen-living room and it works great there too. It keeps the temperature at 20 - 21°C even when it's 30° outside. So glad we found these.

I own an office building. It was run by 3 separate A/C central units. To replace JUST ONE A/C roof unit with central air would have cost me $37,000 to supply just 2 tenants.with 2700 sq. ft. One of my tenants did not even want any A/C. So the space to cool became 2300 sq. ft covered by 4 A/C units. Yet it could cover 3,000 sq.ft. I was sure it would be more than enough. I ordered one unit to test it out. The hottest offices are the window offices. AT first one tenant complained but later came around. Each window office had it's owe unit. With a central unit, it would have taken modifications to please the tenant that refused A/C.. Instead I bought 1 unit less. The front window offices run them at night so on a sunny morning they are at a comfortable 21 C when they arrive at 8:00 am. BY 12:00 PM the sun is overhead and no-longer coming into their windows. On the side of the building they run them as they need to. In 10 minutes their offices are cold. They are smaller in size about 150 sq. Ft. so the unit is super strong. The trick is to run them at night so your tenants can not complain about the noise. Once the unit hits 21 C it stops or the noise level drops dramatically. It turns on and off by itself. Therefore it is not running constantly in the morning. At night it sometimes brings in all the cool night air so the compressor works less. Instead of costing me $37,000 to cool it cost me $3,700. I replaced most of my windows with the difference. They were due to be changed and they are now energy savers. I have a big building so $37,000 to replace all my windows was reasonably cheap. The best part , taking the worst case scenario. If the A/C breaks not everyone is effected. It is cheaper to just order another one or keep one as a back-up. By next year I will order a spare. Unless they give me one for writing such a wonderful report. I could have bought a cheaper A/C unit, but I wanted the best . I think now, I got the best.

Very sleek machine. Quite powerful for a portable. We are on season 2 with it and have had no issues thus far. Easy to install. It's no louder than a box fan set at a medium speed. It would cool a 500 square foot room in a matter of minutes on a 30C day. One star docked for the poor warranty. This is one of their most expensive products. If you don't stand behind it for more than a year (compressor is parts ONLY) then I'm automatically concerned.