Honeywell - 3.5 kW Portable Air Conditioner - Cooling Only - MN12CES

Some condensation on humid days but much quieter than another model we own.

Love it,although a little noisy it does the job of cooling the room fast during heat waves.
The power cord could be a little longer as well but overall a pretty good product.

It works better in smaller rooms of course, cools down well after a while but ends up with a lot of condensation on the actual vent, not sure if it’s the best brand or not but I do think it’s over priced for not much kw’s etc when there are others who can provide more kw’s with their aircons for less the price, it was the only one available at the time, not too disappointed but not too overly impressed either, mainly with the price and no oscillation which would cool the room down better, you think that would be a thing with them but it’s not.

The unit itself seems reasonably built etc, it just does not have the capacity to cool in an Australian summer. I have it in a 3x3m room on the southern side of my house and it will not cool any more than 5-6 degrees below ambient temperature (which on a 40 degree day just isn't that helpful). I left it on in this room overnight and by morning it had only made it down to 23 degrees (with no people or other appliances/devices or heat generating sources in the room). The spec of 12000 BTU's cooling capacity is supposed to be sufficient for a larger room than mine even taking into account 'very high ambient temp', but this is either not a 12000 BTU capacity machine or those recommendations are incorrect.
If you just want to sit in a room within 1.2m of the air con unit and have it blow a cool breeze on you, this will do, but do not expect it to cool down a room when it is hot.

Comparing split systems 2 of which we have in our home with 3.5 KW each, they cool very well. The whole house cools to the required temperature using only the two. On the other hand the Honeywell 3.5 KW cannot cool a tiny room, 3.0 Mtr X 3.3 Mtr. That's incredible. When the outside temperature reaches 35 degrees, the Honeywell air conditioner brings the temperature down to 25 degrees not below. In a tiny room such as mine, it should make it feel like I am in a refrigerator. Its terrible.