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Tarfumes.com - Sharp CVP12LX Portable Air Conditioner
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List Price: $715.58
Our Price: Too low to display
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Sharp
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Brand: Sharp
EAN: 0074000662063
Feature: Color: White
Label: Sharp
Manufacturer: Sharp
Publisher: Sharp
Studio: Sharp
Warranty: 1 year parts and labor
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Features
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Color: White
Size: 18.5"H x 32.3"W x 15.1"D
11,500 BTU
Library quiet
LCD remote
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Editorial Reviews:
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11500 BTU / Plasma cluster ion technology / Library quiet / Remote with LCD Display / Slide out Filter / Dehumidify function
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: too noisy and Sharp customer services bites
Comment: This unit is advertised as being very quiet, however they neglect to mention one thing: when it starts up and shuts down it's VERY LOUD. What's the point of having a unit run quietly when it makes an unacceptably loud noise every few minutes as the compressor kicks in? Yeah, once the compressor's running it's fairly quiet -- but it's loud enough to wake me up from across the room (and I am NOT a light sleeper).
Because I didn't want the hassle of returning it, I kept the unit, and it broke down after 2 months of moderate use.
So, yes, it cools as advertised - but who cares when it breaks down and is do loud in spurts?
And good luck trying to get service from Sharp...I am still waiting for service to get the damned thing fixed.
Don't buy this unit unless you want problems!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely quiet, excellent cooling, easy to use
Comment: After reading reviews here and other online sites, I chose this Sharp portable AC over Soleus or Delonghi. I brought it home the first day of a 100 degree heat wave (in CA) and got it set up in 15 minutes. It is heavy so I required help to get it into and out of the car, but the crate was easy to unpack because once the plastic ties are removed, the top of the box slides off and you simply roll the unit off the box bottom. The casters roll easily even over the threshold, I had no problems positioning it where I wanted it. The unit looks very sleek and blends into the room.
Getting the window frame adapter installed took about 10 minutes. After that, it was simply snap on the hose on both ends, plug in and turn on! The store advised we wait 1-2 hours after transporting to start the unit, since tilting it could disturb the coolant.
Our little house is a cottage and very poorly insulated, single pane windows and probably just newspaper in the walls. With this unit running, our 500 square foot house dropped from 90 degrees to 75 degrees in a few hours on mega cool. The unit pumps out a lot of air when the fan is on high, and it is VERY quiet! You can hear swishing air, but the compresser is unbelievably quiet. Compared to our old in window AC we were not even sure if this thing was running at first (other than the fan).
We've had it going for 4 days now and it is keeping even our poorly-insulated house pleasantly cool with external temps above 95 degrees. We installed the unit on the sunny side of the house but since this unit exhausts hot air but pulls the intake air from your house it doesn't seem to affect performance if it is installed on the sunny side of the house. I also consider this a more efficient design, since the air inside the house will be cooler after some time running, so you are recycling the cooled air rather than drawing in hotter air from outside.
We plan to wrap the hose with insulation (sold for air ducts) to make the unit even more efficient. The hose is long enough that we have the unit about 3' to the right of our window and the hose reaches fine. If you needed to place it further away, you could easily extend the hose with a dryer exhaust hose sold at hardware stores. The hose rises straight up out the back of the unit so it can be pushed back right up to the wall.
The remote is easy to use.
Overall, this is an excellent if expensive unit, and quiet enough to leave running while we sleep.
Editing to add: We've had the unit about a month now and we're very pleased, it not only kept us cool during the extreme heat wave, but with all the forest fires burning in California this summer our air was very bad and my allergies were awful. We kept this unit running with the air cleaner even when it was not cooling and it kept our indoor air healthy and clean. My allergies from the smoke went away after running this for a couple of days. Now that the heat wave has passed we have used it as an air filter on windy days when my allergies cat up, and I suspect it will be very useful as a dehumidifier in our damp rainy winter season, too.
This unit is very quiet on cool and fan settings, the air filter makes a low whooshing noise which I actually like for sleeping.
Customer Rating:
Summary: EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT!
Comment: Sharp, indeed.
This thing is elegantly designed chilling machine. The picture doesn't do it justice. Sleek. I have never seen a window unit that I would call "sleek".
I bought this for use in an almost 600sq ft apartment. After surviving my last apartment's window unit, I didn't expect much, but I figured it's portable so I could set it right next to my desk or my bed or maybe even bungy it to my belt and tow it around if I had to avoid another 98F degree day in my new non air conditioned apartment.
No drastic measures needed. None at all. I unboxed it and was up and running in about 25 minutes and put it right to the test at the hottest point of the day.
It dropped my ambient temperature from 87F to 77F in about 2 hours using the "MEGA COOL" setting which I thought was fairly impressive.
Over the last week, I've had to keep adjusting the temperature incrementally upward to keep from freezing.
I keep it set on about 77F and it is more than enough to keep my entire apartment cool with no need for directed air flow.
This baby gives you the option of a frigid air conditioner, it can dehumidify, it can even pump in fresh air if you live somewhere that still has fresh air.
I love this thing. I've had a lot of terrible window units and tepid nasty central air through filthy ducts and I would take this unit over any of them. I may adopt this as my official air conditioner and never stray.
You really have to look hard to find something to complain about this product as I see some people have done, but if you want cool filtered ionized fresh air this will do that trick and if Amazon doesn't have it in stock you can buy it from qualitymatters.com like I did for a great price w/ free shipping.
Did I mention I love this thing?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Easy to set up
Comment: OK so I decided to unpack bulky box and install it this morning. It is heavy and big and the reviewer had me worried that it would be cumbersome to install. Imagine my surprise - I found it to be a breeze. The hardest part was getting it out of the box and down the hall into the office.
My office has 2 of everything - computers, printers, etc, and has a very large full sun facing Southern California window; so it has been unbearably hot for years.
I fidgeted getting a good seal in my large vertical sliding window but the moment I turned on the unit I was in heaven. I set up the timer to turn off in 12 hours and sat down to write this review. I can only report on setup and initial operation, both of which I found to be incredibly easy. The unit is quiet and blessedly cool - my office has never been this comfortable. I am cool as a cucumber and loving my new purchase.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent AC
Comment: Quite quiet, cools well, good looking design. The louvers move well,
overall an excellent unit. My only suggestion would be to make the window
fitting parts a bit less flimsy. Nevermind all the complains about
controls on the unit, and so on -- it has just what it needs. An
overall excellent unit.
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