Midea Inverter Portable AC

I've had this unit for only 3 weeks now and so far so good. I will try and write another one after a few months. What's good about it is the vents that blow out the cold air are a wide output and plus it has a swivel that blows the air up and down so it makes the air go in all directions and if you don't like that you can just set it on One Direction. All the other units that I looked at only had it blowing up from the top of the AC unit which to me defeats the whole purpose of getting to lower levels of the room where you will be sitting or lying down. The compressor is very quiet and so is the fan. It has a sleep mode that a lot of units do not have and it saves on electricity. The new design of a dual hose unit that is two hoses in one is genius! It comes with an adapter that snaps right in and you can keep the hose straight and not have to twist it. Now everybody complains about the window assembly kit and what a pain in the butt it is but that is like that on any portable AC unit you buy. The plastic screw posts don't push in all the way but just enough for you to push in for it to stop the panels from sliding and I recommend you put those plastic babies on both sides of the sliding panel. You will also need to use tape like clear packing tape or duct tape to the back side of the panel to keep it from loosening or sliding down. I have a Long window height and there was extra extended panels that made it go all the way to the top so that was great. You will notice a tiny bit of some air gaps around the adapter clamps and the hose but it's negligible. When I did research there were only two models out there that were dual hose in hose units, the Midea and the Dreo. They both look very similar except for one important factor is that the Dreo blows cold air from the top and doesn't have a big vent that swivels like the Midea, and I liked it because it was black and modern looking I used to have a white one and it eventually turned an ugly yellow color. The one thing I can say that can use Improvement are that the LED panel is hard to read on the unit itself at night time. It should have had much more backlight and the letters are hard to read and I fear as the unit gets older that the display is going to be harder to see the white letters. Also the remote control back light so you can see the display on the remote control longer is always turning off after just a few seconds and doesn't give you enough time to see the letters or numbers. But I do keep it near my bed on the table so that the AC unit can get the proper temperature of the room from the remote control. I almost always use the Midea app to control the AC unit from my living room so I don't have to get up. This unit has great blowing distance and I can feel the air blowing from all the way across the room and it also cools off my kitchen as well as my living room. I usually keep it on 77 and it quietly goes low when it reaches that temperature and then turns off and then automatically turns on when it needs to and it doesn't make a loud sound when it turns on it's a very nice gradual sound. I haven't gotten my electric bill yet but I am expecting it to be lower than it was with a single hose unit that I had. When you get the unit shipped make sure to have paid for the $10 charge for them to deliver it into your home as it is 72 lb. To open the box cut off the straps and then open the top and take out the attachments and then lift the Box straight up and it will separate the bottom part and you can lift the whole box above and out of the unit. It caught me by surprise because I was wondering how in the world am I going to lift a 72 lb unit all the way up from a tall box. The units specs are excellent it has 12,000 BTU and SACC of 10,000 which is more energy efficient. I also bought the 4-year Asurion protection plan which gives me great piece of mind. I hope this helps you all that are considering this great portable AC unit. And please reply if you have any questions or comments about my review:-)

This review is for the Midea Duo. I bought this because I needed a portable AC for one of the bedrooms in my condo because the central air is inadequate. I especially wanted a smart AC so that I could use it with my Alexa ecosystem. Unfortunately, despite the good looks, quiet operation and good build quality, this thing has some major shortcomings that make it unusable and a complete waste of money. For starters, I received it with one of the tabs used to hold the hose in place on the window slider broken. Therefore, I needed a replacement part but Amazon doesn’t carry parts, so they had to send me a while new unit so that I could return the unit with the broken part. This delayed its use. Amazon was good about it so I don’t have any complaints there. The first major issue I have is with the window slider itself, a part that must be used in order to use the AC. For starters, you’d expect a $600 AC to come with high quality accessories but this part is cheaply made, flimsy and thin with absolutely no insulation properties at all. Furthermore, once assembled the sides are not flat, so you are left with gaps between the flat surfaces of the window and the sliders. They give you foam tape to adhere to the edges but this is inadequate. You’re left with a window insert that not only gets hot, but also lets bugs in and sound/ outside noise. The other issue with the slider is that for some stupid reason, they placed the hole for the exhaust hose very close to one edge. Its so close that when you use the sliding window adapter, it hits the sill and cannot snap into place. You have to build it out on that sure to get it to work. Why wouldn’t they just have centered it!? Furthermore, the hose is huge, probably twice the width of standard units and it’s unwieldy, so as gentle as I was being with this thing, one of the tabs broke (again!) and now it won’t connect properly … I had to glue it on with ABS cement so it doesn’t pull out. Unfortunately, due to the uncommon shape of the hose, you cannot upgrade to something else and you are left trying to modify it. Fine, I took two 1x2” wooden rails and created a box to support the sliders and added styrofoam to insulate it. Unfortunately, the second major problem is that this unit does nothing for the humidity while in AC mode because it reuses the condensation to make it more efficient… but, even though I have this thing keeping the room at 68 degrees, it jacked the humidity up to 84%! So the air is really dense and because of this it’s uncomfortable and useless! Unfortunately because of all the time it took to get this thing situated, Ive missed the return window by several days and now I’m out $600! I highly recommend staying away from this product. I really wanted to love it but instead I loathe it! Pros: good build quality of the AC unit itself, wifi and smart app enabled, quiet, blows a good amount of air. Cons: huge unwieldy exhaust hose, cheaply made and poorly designed hose adapter, cheaply made and poorly designed window sliders.

This air conditioner kept my large master bedroom cool the past year with no issues whatsoever. I loved how it has a variable speed compressor, which allows it to run quiet and efficient once a room gets to temperature, but on those days when you want to cool the place down quickly, you can let it rip and cool the room down quickly. I live in California, so humidity isn't an issue here and I've never had to deal with any leakage issues. The portability aspect wasn't important to me since it stayed in place the entire time, but it does have caster wheels if you wanted to roll it around from room to room. That said, the thing is HEAVY and the exhaust kit would need to be reinstalled in each window and that is the only downside of this unit. It feels like very cheap plastic and I could see it breaking easily. I used aluminum foil tape to hold the outlet duct into the window exhaust piece and then tape the plastic piece into the window frame itself. This kept it all attached together and I never had any issues with it breaking. Don't plug on moving this up and downstairs regularly or you're going to hurt yourself or the unit. I particularly liked the scheduling smart features and the bedtime mode. I like falling asleep in a chilly room but I don't want to wake up in a cold room. This allows for you to have precise control over the temperature while you're sleeping. My only other gripe with the unit is the unit makes a rather loud high pitched noise when turning on the compressor and thumps rather loudly. I got used to it, but I could imagine a sensitive sleeper would be woken up.

This is a really nice product. I’ve never had anything positive to say about portable air conditioners. They have always been extremely noisy and inefficient. This one however is different. It has two hoses so it does a better job of cooling quickly, and it has this thing called an inverter motor which makes it more quiet than what I’ve experienced in the past from portable air conditioners. Basically, if you set the room to a reasonable temperature and let it do its thing, the inverter motor can shift into low and maintain a pleasant temperature without loud or high pitched sounds coming from the unit. The smart home app uses Matter and Wi-Fi and lets you set things like an on off schedule which also works very well. A couple areas for improvement: the built-in temperature gauge is not accurate, but the remote control can act as a temperature gauge instead, which mostly addresses that issue. The documentation is hard to follow, but the manufacturer has a video on YouTube of how to install. It has sleep mode, but I haven’t figured out how to effectively use it yet. It seems to force the temperature down to 70°, which is colder than I want and requires the machine to run louder. I typically chill the room in the hours leading up to bedtime so it’s cold when I go to bed and can turn the machine off. Works pretty well. The dual hose and inverter make this a good portable air conditioner that I would like to also put in other rooms however, some of those rooms are smaller, so would appreciate seeing a smaller sized unit with the same features too.

Hands down a great purchase. I’ve had this unit for over 2 years now and it’s been rock solid. The unit has strong output and is reliable. It came with standard adjustable window fitment brackets and an extra vertical attachment if you need the bracket to be vertical. The unit looks premium but is made externally entirely of plastic. Cooling performance is strong even in the midst of record heat waves. It’s a very efficient unit and can be quiet enough to use in a bedroom especially with the sleep mode set. Drainage has been a non-issue for me even in rainy, humid, New England climates.

I sleep hot regardless of the season. My options were to buy a huge fan and place it on me at all times during the night with a sheet as a blanket or just suffer through it. It took my bed being soaked with my sweat several summers in a row for me to give up and look into an air conditioner. I didn't want anything super amazing as the room I sleep in is fairly small. I did want a dual hose design since I've heard they're better at removing water from the system but it wasn't a deal breaker if I didn't get that. After much looking I came upon this unit. It has a remote, it works with Alexa, I can control the unit with my smartphone, it has the dual hose system but most importantly it's energy efficient. You see I used to have a hotel grade air conditioner and it ran most of the time due to the room it was in having no air flow. That unit was a champ as it kept that large room chilly all the time. Though it used a lot of power. It added over a hundred dollars to our power bill every month and I just couldn't deal with that again. Now this unit is much better but it only runs when I sleep and I clean the filter on the regular to keep it from using too much power. It hasn't broke my bank yet so that's always a plus. Oh, and did I mention this unit is a beast at cooling? I know I said the room is small but I'd never expect this unit to cool my bedroom in less than a couple of minutes like this unit does. Most of the time I forget to turn it on via my phone and it doesn't really matter. I enter my room, hit the on button and get into bed and within minutes I'm nice and chilly for a good nights sleep. I have very little to complain about with this air conditioner. It checks off a lot of boxes I had for what I wanted and then some. The only thing I can say is that it's a bit noisy. I don't see that as a bad thing cause most units are loud. Actually I don't know if I could sleep without the noise now. But if you have to have silence in order to drift off to dreamland then maybe find something else. The amount of features this unit has at a fairly decent price accompanied with it being energy efficient should be a top contender for most. Highly recommend. Whoops, almost forgot. My unit was missing the adapter that hooks to the plastic hose so to have water drawn away from the unit and into a better place. I contacted Midea for a replacement part and was told they don't carry certain parts and my only option was to send the entire unit back for a replacement. This was well after I had installed the unit. I, like the adult I am, called them stupid and argued their flawed logic. Sending a heavy piece of tech back because they forgot to add a small and almost weightless piece of plastic was asinine. Why put me and the poor delivery people through something so frustrating over something so simple. That conversation went on for too long and got me nowhere. In the end I didn't need the part but I highly suggest anyone buying this to check every part to make sure it's all there cause from what I can tell they don't carry parts that a normal company would.

Well, for quietness, definitely one star. This ac has inverter combined with fan system, when you change the fan speed you are actually change the compressor with the inverter. This function is fine. I got a Gasbye inverter portable ac, that one has a seperately inverter function which work independently from the fan system. So for media one, the combined system greatly decrease the noise from the compressor, compared to those single hose ac without inverter, this one can even reach the noise of a fan since you can switch the fan speed to extremely low with the compressor. In this case, it will be fantastic. However, the inverter really make high pitched frequency noise, that's the main issue prevent you from sleeping. Every inverter ac has inverter noise like this, but this one makes it to be much more obvious since the compressor noise is much lower. In most cases, with the compressor noise I can asleep but not with inverter noise since it's high pitched frequency noise, keep tortune my ear and brain. By the way, stupid hose design, stupid panel. Media should learn from other ac company, just give more stable panel with real screws and split the hoses to 2 not this big fat one. When install in vertical windows, if your window is a bit deep in the window frame, the frame will block this big fat hose since it only give a conversion head but not install the hose in vertical way directly. In this case, you need to stick a vertical gap between the panel and the window frame, that's stupid. So in general, cooling system for this 12000 dual hose inverter is fine, noise of inverter is way too bad, product is too expensive, not worth. Maybe really no portable ac is able to put in a small bedroom for sleeping at night, if your window is horizontal and get no Anti-theft pole outside, try to get that media U shape window ac, a window ac will be much stronger and the U shape will really make it to be quiet, also much cheaper.

To be brief, I bought 3 of these at one time. For the first month, they worked perfectly. Then, in the middle of the night, one of then, like other reviewers stated, started beeping and flashing "P1" on the display screen. According to the manual, this indicates that the bottom condensate tray is full of water... So I emptied it. Two hours later, same thing happened. So I emptied it. Then, 1/2 hour later, same thing. In order for a portable AC to function without regular emptying, there is a part inside called a "slinger fan" that is designed to throw water from the condensate tray onto the condenser so it could be superheated and turned into steam and evacuated out of the exhaust hose. This stopped working. I called Midea support and they claimed that the AC is operating as it should and would require regular emptying on humid days. Keep in mind that I bought three of these units and they are all kept on the same level of the same house and set to the same temperature, yet have dry condenser trays, requiring no emptying. Midea told me that they would elevate my support request to another level and I would hear back by phone within 2 days. It's been a week and I've heard nothing. So, when they operate, they are so cold, so quiet, and so nice, but getting 2 good ones out of 3 is not good odds. They are ridiculously heavy (about 100 pounds), so keep that in mind if you have to return one.

Great for my condo, gets my room nice and cold fast and night mode is nice and quiet. Delivery sucked as usual though.

Useless. One word covers this item. It hardly cools, it is very very noisy. All the features work but you cannot be in the same room due to how loud this thing is. It "shakes, rattles and rolls" Do not buy this item.

This portable AC truly saved my summer. My old unit (borrowed from my MIL) constantly shut off whenever the bucket filled up, which meant waking up at night to empty it. This newer model is such an upgrade—it’s self-evaporating, so I don’t have to deal with the bucket at all. And controllable from an app! Beyond cooling, it also has 3 functions including heating, which makes it useful year-round. It’s quieter than other brands I’ve tried, and the included panels made it very simple to install and adapt to my window without hassle. Yes, it’s a bit pricey, but considering the convenience, lower noise, and the fact that I can use it in both summer and winter, I see it as a solid investment. Verdict: Efficient, practical, and easy to live with—highly recommended if you want a reliable all-in-one unit.

This was the life saver during last year's heat wave, the house' main AC took the retirement trip and we never heard from it again. Ordered this one and it just went to work right away, is a bit heavy to get up stairs, but once this is done you are set. The low power mode is incredible efficient, as it only draws about 300 watts, is cools slowly but is quiet, this is also useful in case you got one of those portable power stations, it can absolutely run this unit in the low power mode, so you can at least get a few hours of cooling in the event of a power outage(or do some peak shaving if you are up to it) . The high power mode is an entire different beast, the compressor goes into full drive, it gets loud and power draw gets to the 1000 watt range. The cooling is very aggressive, basically turns the immediate area into a fridge, not event the main house AC can get this cold. The duo hose setup is a mix bag, the good thing is that it uses the outside air to cool the condenser, and it balances the air pressure inside the room so the outside air is not been drawn inside the house. The down side and the worst part about this setup is the shear size of the duo hose, is bulky and very difficult to get into position, the window adapter cover is very thin and the hose connectors are flimsy, I already snapped about two of them because the hose refused to stay in place, and will come off at the slightest pull of the unit. The weather around the globe is cooked to say the least, but until the last frog goes belly up in this slow cooker we need to do what we can to stay cool.

I read all the reviews and did a lot of homework before making this purchase. Turns out best decision ever. Has 2 hoses therfore it works so much better fits in my window perfect and is as cold as the ac in my car. I needed something that works great as I live in an apartment building that can get up to 90° in doors with is hot. This did not disappoint and I recommended this to all my neighbour's and friends this is last year's model so what a great price. A friend of mine bought this model last year. And paid way more money for it at canadian tire. I'd also like to say the 2 gentleman that delivered it were very professional and cared about my package!!