Not so cool
dude.
A few years ago the missus & I bought a room aircon - you know the type on wheels where you hook up the back hose to an open window and get slightly cool. For a second or 2. Anyway alarm bells yada yada...
About 2 months later in mid-40C-summer this thing starts to sound like a rock tumbler or that washing machine with the brick in it you can see on youtube.
Suffice to say it made a noise it shouldn't have.

Off we trundle back to the store, explain what's gone on and then they plug it in turn it on and it hums quietly. "Fugguggery" thinks I. Hums beautifully. Then I spot the problem and turn it onto "Aircon". A noise akin to what I imagine aircraft wings being sheared off midflight might sound like erupts from the little cooling device filling the entire space of the warehouse sized showroom.
The assistants can't turn it off quickly enough and rush me thru to get a refund.
On a busy mid-summer Saturday with many potential customers now rapidly leaving the aircon sales section.
The solar panels helping to power the split system inverter helps keep the house cool these days. Not that we use it too much cause the insulation and whirlybirds in the roof do a pretty good job anyway.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 16 May 2012, 11:40, Reply)