ARC-1230WN 14000BTU NEX Inverter Air Conditioner Dehumidifier and Fan

This portable air conditioner has been the best investment I’ve made in a while. It’s super easy to set up, get connected to the WiFi, and set up schedules or use the app to control it! And by far cools SO WELL!!! The wife and I have been using it to cool our bedroom at night because this summer has been CRAZY hot, and yet this thing cools down to the temperature we set it and keeps the bedroom nice and cold through the night. It’s been incredibly reliable, not having any issue with it not cooling or anything. It hasn’t leaked and the condensation evaporation technology works wonders for allowing us to not have to drain the tank. Of course, depending on your environment and the humidity that may be different for others, but overall this air conditioner has been AMAZING! Would HIGHLY recommend for others.

Did some research on different devices to cool a room down and found out about portable AC units. Found a spreadsheet online with the cost and performance metrics of many different brands and this one is said to be one of the top performing units out there. Amazing performance and runs pretty quiet. I actually am able to fall asleep while it’s running at night like it’s a white noise machine. My room does run pretty hot after a while when I’m gaming on my PC, and I like how fast it can suck out all the hot air and cool everything down. The app that you can use for it is great, especially the function to have it run however long and whatever temperature you’d like while sleeping.

Arrived in secured packaging, on time, by custom Amazon delivery. It weighs a lot. Out of box experience was easy by following the instruction book. The A/C box is a single unit. The reasonably easy set up is mainly with the accordion dual hose sleeve and for my horizontal sliding window config. I followed the instructions for the sliding panel and insulation strips around the window opening. The seal is good. The whole setup is Not too hard going solo, much easier with two people. Once the window attachment and hose sleeve were connected, the unit easily turned on, cool air blew within a few seconds, the louvre moves up and down to direct air flow, and voila! It works without even reading the control panel instructions. I like the timer setting to shutoff in half hour increments. Works flawlessly. The unit has been operational daily for hours at a time over the past month. It is compatible for my master bedroom size and personal need for cool air. Given another product brand I previously owned had failed to perform more than three months, I believe this Whynter model is a great value for the cost.

I bought the 14,000BTU (12,000 SACC) model and I've had this for a few months from March-August 2025. It's worked very well so far for my 5th floor, 600sqft apartment. I'm in Seattle where the hottest outdoor temperatures have been 85-90 degrees and very sunny. Pros - It works extremely well, and I immediately feel a difference when I turn it on! - Thankful that this has wheels (see cons) - Good instruction booklet - No smell - Washable filter - Controls are easy to use - Good features: schedule on/off with buttons, swing mode, sleep mode, fan mode, dehumidifier, remembers temperature you set it to when you turn it on/off, comes with a remote if you need it, accurate temperature display & sensor, wifi connectivity if you need it (but I don't use that and don't plan to because the buttons work fine!) - Fairly quiet! You definitely hear it on high like a loud box fan, but it's constant white noise. Med/low seem pretty quiet. - Having the vents on top vs in the front is great because the airflow goes over my couch arm and I don't need quite as much space for it. - Relatively sleek / not an eyesore, as far as AC's go. Hose-in-hose is visually nicer than two separate hoses, imo. This also looks prettier than the Midea Duo. Seattle is not very humid, so I haven't needed to use the dehumidifier or empty the tray yet. Cons so far: - It does quietly screech a bit when the cooling kicks in, kinda like a car revving, but it only lasts a few seconds. - Large and heavy, like a small refrigerator. I had to buy a dolly specifically to get this package up to my apartment on my own, but I managed! However, I'm 5'1" and could not lift the 85lb thing out of the Styrofoam base on my own to unpack it. Was afraid to put it horizontally on my couch to try it since they say to keep it upright as much as possible. Best to ask a friend for help and get a really good dolly. - I'm keeping the box and ugly Styrofoam (which is disintegrating a bit) because IF it ever needs repairing, I believe you have to mail it back, which is quite cumbersome. - Expensive, but that's the case for "better" dual hose models. Wait for a good sale! Also comes with added costs if you have a weird (awning) window, which is the case in many Seattle/PNW apartments. See below. - Longevity is still TBD. Who knows how long this thing will last. I'll update this review if it starts having issues. - Window kit doesn't work for casement or awning windows. You can certainly buy the janky zippered fabric window attachments on Amazon, but I bought a custom plexiglass kit from Martinson Manufacturing and paired it with removable window tape from Atack. The plexiglass kit is very expensive but is much sturdier than fabric covers which leak heat all over. If you're extra crafty, you can try to cut it yourself, but you'd want to use a thin plexiglass. Another clever alternative (thanks to Reddit) is to use flexible marine vinyl that you can cut it more easily yourself, if you can find marine vinyl. - No screens/filters for the hose, but that's the case for Midea Duo as well. If you buy a Martinson Manufacturing window kit, it comes with a bug screen! You can also buy a bug screen separately. (It fits perfectly but won't keep out tiny bugs.) Overall, unless this breaks in the next few years, I recommend this if you can afford it! I got this model on sale at $500. Not sure if this or Midea Duo are better, but if you are shopping for AC units, always compare effectiveness against the more reliable SACC values. Look it up on ConsumerAnalysis for details if you want to learn more. Also, make sure to get the right unit for the space you want to cool. Hope my review helps you, and good luck on your search!

UPDATE: It was about a week after I posted this review with a video of the unit running and suddenly it started leaking water-rain water-out of the bottom of the unit. Customer service agreed with me that it is possible for the rain to go through the hose that goes through the window kit and then through the air conditioner and onto the floor. So I need to be home and able to remove the hose from the window every time it rains. Great solution. Nice for almost $600 and I found out a little more than a year later. ————————————————————— Bought this a year ago when there were hardly any reviews here on Amazon but I read some elsewhere and together with the description it convinced me that this would be the best one to cool off my 1 bedroom apartment. I didn’t want to have to keep using 2 air conditioners and I had developed a ton of dirt and mold within a year with the last 2 bedroom air conditioners I had bought. So I decided that I needed something that I could take out of the window in the winter months to reduce the dirt and mold collection inside my air conditioners. I had a portable previously before the BCU rating system was changed for portable air conditioners to more accurately reflect how well they performed. My old one was also a single hose setup. It actually made the apartment hotter because it produced more heat with the hose itself than it generated cool air. I had read that dual hoses were better. So this one satisfies that requirement. I don’t know if there’s mold inside obviously but I sniffed at the vents where the air comes out of and didn’t smell anything like in the first portable air conditioner I still have sitting in my living room. This is the first time since moving in 9 years ago that I’ve been without a second air conditioner, so it is definitely doing what I wanted it to do and more. Only issue is that this year I can’t get Alexa to turn the unit back on, though she can turn it off. But there’s enough other ways to turn it on and off, including an app on my Apple Watch. The air conditioner has an app and the remote is also especially useful for the feature called iSense. I highly recommend using this. It acts as a separate, remote thermostat to assist the air conditioner in knowing when to turn the air down. I use it on Auto as well to keep it silent at most times. The air conditioner is very silent after it reaches the temperature you set it at. Apparently my air conditioner is much more powerful than it needs to be for this apartment (I was told my apartment was about 650 square feet, but that was an estimate and this unit is telling me that it’s way off). But I just set the temperature much higher than I actually want it and it really does seem to work well for keeping the whole apartment cool, which I haven’t been able to do all these years with 2 air conditioners that weren’t all that powerful. I feel like having an air conditioner keep working for a year, just as well as the day I got it is a win. I am glad I didn’t listen to my cousin who tried to tell me that a portable probably wasn’t the answer. It was. This unit seems like it will be more reliable than the others I’ve had since moving in to this apartment. I have no complaints, just wish Alexa could turn it on but I think it might just need to be relinked.

Very nice unit, came well packed and with two manuals, one for setup and operation, the other for wireless and online app functionality. Once I got it unpacked and the basic setup done, I plugged it in and heard a power-on beep and initialization whir. Then just pushed the power button and it started right up, set at 72° and pushing cold air right away. Quick setup instructions could definitely be more prominently placed and clarified; I didn't find them until I was into the middle of the manual, and then they were small pictures with small print and not sequential, instead focusing on various setup configurations with the included adapters and window slides. In our case, here in the southwest, we have large picture windows with high transom windows for ventilation. To reach one of those windows, I had to set the unit up on a chest, then build a riser base with a lip to raise it a bit more and keep it from rolling off and radically adapt the 'inverter hose' mounting plate and exhaust flanges! It would be great if Whynter would offer a longer intake/exhaust hose option for higher windows such as this. In any event, the unit is very well made, works well and cools to the desired (set) temperature, verified with standalone temp/humidity devices we have.

I’ve had this for just over one year now and I felt the sudden urge to write a review. This portable A/C has been worth every penny for me. I moved into an apartment in LA without any air conditioning and I have a senior dog with health issues, so I needed to ensure my apartment was always cool and comfortable for her. For reference, my apartment is a studio with a small bonus room and I use the A/C in the main room where I sleep. It is fantastic at cooling my main room down. If I close my bathroom door and the door to the bonus room it gets sooo dang cold. I also use blackout curtains for even more heat reduction. I would recommend this for anyone who has a large room or small studio they want to keep cool. Anything larger than that you would need more than one unit. Today it’s 98 degrees outside and running it on the coldest setting my main room is 61 degrees with the doors closed!

I like a nice cold bedroom to fall asleep in, but didn't want to cool my entire house to 68 degrees - that would be too cold, and on a 95 degree day, cost a small fortune and probably wear out my central air unit a lot faster. Going on my 3rd summer with this unit in my master bedroom and it still works great - Whynter has solved a lot of the issues these floor standing units used to have such as: It never needs emptied - it evaporates all of the condensed water back outside. I've unplugged it to empty whatever water was left at the end of each season, and there's not a drop to drain out. It has also never accumulated any ice inside as a result, even on really humid days. Intake and exhaust - doesn't suck in cold air and exhaust it outside, which makes it more efficient and faster to cool a room down. Inverter technology - regardless of what temperature you set them, traditional AC's have only two modes of operation. OFF and ON. These new inverter units can run at many stages of being on, from 0% to 100% and in between, making it more efficient, and less stressful on the internal parts - aka it saves money and prolongs durability (in theory, at least). I find it also makes it quite a bit quieter since it can just throttle on a little bit as needed to keep a room once at set temp. Bonus - it's smart. The app works well although it takes a little getting used to. Using the app, I set it to run on a smart curve cycle. At 8pm it turns on and starts cooling the room and stays cold through the night. In the early morning, it starts to step up a couple degrees every hour, then turns off until the following evening. Every day, all by itself. Cons The bracket is pretty minimalistic and you will probably have to cut it if you have a window opening less than 3 feet wide or so. It does look more attractive than a big AC sticking out of your window, it mounts into the track your window rides in - so you can still close the screen and keep bugs from getting in. It has wheels but it is heavy. Have fun getting it up the stairs, lol

Es buen producto (vivo en Pachuca, México). En estas olas de calor consecutivas me ha funcionado muy bien. Símplemente el precio es un poco alto, pero a cambio casi no hace ruido y tampoco ha aumentado demaciado mi consumo de electricidad.

This thing is a beast - great for condo use, relatively easy to set up, easy to set and use. I have it in my bedroom and provided I leave the bedroom door open before bedtime it makes a decent attempt on taking the worst edge off the rest of the condo as well. With the door shut it brings the room to a comfortable level quickly and keeps it there easily. Livable but less positive - sleep mode doesn't just reduce the throughput, it appears to switch it off completely. The noise of operation is easy to sleep through, but it does have an unfortunate habit of beeping when it changes mode, and those are not easy to sleep through.