Where this leaves you The only unit on this shelf that publishes both of its cooling ratings — 14,000 BTU ASHRAE and 10,200 BTU SACC — which is the honest way to describe a portable. It is also a portable, not a window unit.
What the maker puts in writing
14,000 BTU ASHRAE · 10,200 BTU SACC
Up to 700 sq ft · 16.5 × 14.06 × 27.09 in
3 in 1: cool, dehumidify, fan
Wi-Fi app, Alexa and Google Assistant, Follow Me remote
The two numbers, and why only one maker prints both
14,000 BTU ASHRAE (10,200 BTU SACC).
A portable air conditioner sits inside the room it is cooling and pushes its heat out through a hose. Some of that heat comes straight back, and SACC is the rating that accounts for it.
Twenty-seven per cent of the headline figure disappears in that one parenthesis. The other portable on this shelf claims the same 14,000 and the same 700 square feet, and publishes no SACC at all.
It is not a window unit
At least six of the ten products here mount in the window. Two stand on the floor with a hose, and the hose still goes out of a window.
That is the right choice for a casement or a window that cannot take weight, and the wrong one for quiet: the two U-shaped window units on this shelf publish 32 dBA, and this one publishes nothing.
Availability
Read on the day this page was built: $610 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-04. The live price is at the top of the page.
Where this one sits on its shelf
At $610, it is the 9 cheapest of the 9 models in this category published here.
Lowest price on the shelf$140
Median$290
Highest price on the shelf$610
The good and the less good
Strengths
The only listing on this shelf to publish a SACC figure alongside the ASHRAE one, which is the rating that makes a portable comparable to a window unit
A Follow Me remote that measures the temperature where you are sitting rather than at the machine
Wi-Fi with both Alexa and Google Assistant, which only three units on this shelf offer
Compromises
The most expensive thing on this shelf, and it is a portable — the hose and the window kit take the window anyway
No noise figure at all, where five units here publish one and two of those publish 32 dBA
A portable rejects heat through a hose that sits in the room, which is why the SACC figure is 27% below the ASHRAE one
Specifications
Type
Portable, floor standing with an exhaust hose and window kit
Cooling
14,000 BTU ASHRAE; 10,200 BTU SACC
Room size
Up to 700 sq ft
Modes
3 in 1: air conditioner, dehumidifier, fan
Size
16.5 × 14.06 × 27.09 in
Control
Top panel with LED display, full-function remote, Wi-Fi app, Alexa and Google Assistant
Remote
Follow Me — the remote acts as the thermostat
Noise
Not stated by the maker
Power
Not stated by the maker
Amazon reference
B01DLPUWHQ
EAN
0819813013189
The questions that keep coming up
What is the difference between ASHRAE and SACC?
ASHRAE measures the cooling the machine produces; SACC accounts for the heat the hose and the infiltrating air put back into the room. For portables, SACC is the figure that compares with a window unit. This listing publishes both — 14,000 and 10,200 — and the other portable on this shelf publishes only the larger kind of number.
Will it cool 700 square feet?
That is the maker’s stated room size, and it rests on the 14,000 figure. Read against the 10,200 SACC the same listing publishes, treat 700 square feet as the optimistic end. A window unit on this shelf claims 550 square feet from 12,000 BTU.
How loud is it?
Not published. Portables put the compressor inside the room, so they are inherently louder than a window unit and far louder than the two U-shaped units on this shelf, which publish 32 dBA. The absence of a figure here is worth weighing.
Set beside the neighboring home comfort appliances
home comfort appliances from the same category, at nearby prices. Only what all of them publish is shown: a column with holes compares nothing.
Where the models are not equal, in home comfort appliances
If price decides: Vtronix Classic America TWC-08CRD1-L0U-CA, at $295.
Who this one is for, among home comfort appliances
A room where a window unit cannot be mounted but a hose can reach a window
Price and availability, for home comfort appliances
Details checked on October 4, 2026.
What buyers actually choose
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 2,000.
The figure is a floor, rounded by Amazon, and read through Keepa — it says what buyers picked, not what a maker claims.
Sources
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for home climate appliances and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
A basic mechanical window unit rated at 5,000 BTU/h for rooms up to about 14 m (46 ft)². Seven dial-set temperatures, three fan speeds, cool/dehumidify/fan modes, a 24-hour timer and auto-restart, with no app or WiFi. Built to a North American 115 V/60 Hz electrical spec, which matters more than the price tag for anyone ordering it into a European home.
Best for: A reader who wants the cheapest possible entry point into a window unit and is prepared to sort out a step-down transformer or import wiring themselves — not a plug-and-play pick for a European socket.
An 8,000 BTU/h window unit with WiFi and Alexa control alongside the physical remote, an eco mode, and a programmable timer, rated for rooms up to about 32 m (105 ft)². Energy Star-listed at 10.9 CEER. Like every window air conditioner we checked in this family, it is built to a North American 120 VAC electrical spec, not the 230 V mains used across the EU and UK.
Best for: A reader who specifically wants app or voice control on a window unit and is willing to pay a substantial European import markup for a North American product, and to handle the voltage conversion themselves.
