Review of Friedrich CP08G10 7800 btu - 115 volt - 10.8 EER Chill series room

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I originally wrote a very positive review of this unit. I researched and debated everything and purchased this a my primary unit in bedroom and a cheaper LG "throw away unit" for living room. I was considering the Khul unit but truth is no unit is perfect and you should not have to spend $700 for a good bedroom AC. I have to be honest this unit worked great the first week then just started to make noise and rattle. I like to keep the unit on low when I sleep and when the compressor kicks this thing makes all sorts of noises and no one noise is identical and I have not slept well. I have shimmed, put padding etc on all sorts of parts and it still just keeps making noise. The noises are more prevalent on low and not on high and is only when the cover is on take the cover off and it is generally fine. The unit does cool well and quickly and have a great feature set.

POSITIVE/CONCLUSION: The throw away LG unit is purchased for almost $150 less that is also 8000 btu is a rock star. The thing does everything I ask it to do and does it well. It does not make noises when the compressor kicks you just here a slight uptick in the unit. I would rather buy a new unit every 3 years then have a unit for 6 or 7 that is only going to ultimately frustrate the crap out of me. LG Energy Star 8,000 BTU Window-Mounted Air Conditioner with Remote Control (115 volts) LW8012ER

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I was really hesitant to buy this AC. Originally the AC was made by Panasonic. When Panasonic made it, it was a terrific AC and very quiet. I had to replace my 10,000 BTU Panasonic AC with the Friedrich version of the same AC two years ago. That 10,000 Friedrich version sounds like a truck. Watching TV is usually a real problem. Cool the room, turn off the AC, listen to TV and repeat.

When my 7800 Panasonic from 2005 hit the dust this year, I deliberated. I heard the Friedrich CP08G10 in the store and it seemed quiet enough. I seem to have gotten lucky. The new Friedrich is pretty quiet. Maybe it is not as great as the original Panasonic version, but it is definitely quiet enough so that I can sleep. I don't guarantee you will have the same experience since I think quality control is poor at Friedrich. Also, I am writing this review after only two nights of use. But, I am feeling positive. Suggest you try to buy an AC in an undamaged box. I have a feeling these ACs can't take the rough and tumble of shipping.

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When the machine turns on and off (cycles), it makes a fairly loud noise. For power save mode, it turns on for about a minute (presumably checking room temp) then turns back off, in order to then turn back on to actually start cooling the room. The noise is enough to startle me. It means I don't use the power save mode anywhere near as much as I did with an older unit I had before.

It is also not that quiet overall. It's not loud per se but it's not unnoticeable. I'm surprised this is the one AC I was told is "the quietest". If that's the case, AC makers have gone backwards in the past decade. My 12yr old unit before then (by Panasonic, no longer made) was far quieter even in its old age, and had the same efficiency rating.

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I bought this unit to replace an old Qstar through the wall unit. I wanted to find a unit that would fit into the existing hole in the wall without having to make the hole larger. Friedrich makes a Kuhl unit that will do that nicely but $699 was more than I was willing to spend right now. So to install this unit as a replacement for the old Qstar you have to remove the old sleeve and install a spacer to the right or left of the sleeve to make up for this units smaller width. I used a pressure treated 2"x6" which worked great* ( you may have to shave a 16th off the thickness for best fit). Install the Chill sleeve , chaulk/insulate where necessary and slip the unit into the sleeve. As for the Chill unit itself...seems to be working fine the unit noise seem to vary from very quiet to a mild rumbling for time to time. Not sure if this normal or not (while the compressor is cycling) but hopefully the unit will be durable. I have been running it on and off now for 3 weeks. I hope this helps someone out there who might be looking to replace an older unit without major reconstruction of a preexisting install.

P.S...I do agree with other reviews stating that Money Saver mode is noisy. I question how it could actually save any money since it seems to cycle constantly. Very annoying, often it just kicks on for 2-3 seconds shut off and 30secs later do it again. This mode will keep you awake at night. I suggest you just leave it in cool mode and set a temperature.

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I purchased it 1 month ago, so it is still relatively untested. It cools our large studio room quickly, it is relatively quiet, it does not wake me at night and it was recommended by Consumers Report.

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This electric fireplace media center is beautiful . I could not believe the price for solid wood . It is very heavy and arrived in two boxes on a palet. I had my brother help me carry this in and my daughter helped me put it together . I have had so many people compliment me on it , they all think that I got a new tv because it makes the tv look so much better. The fireplace is beautiful also the flame looks real and it throws heat out . It was well worth the money and I highly reccomend .

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Cheap Great Northern Popcorn 6010 Roosevelt Antique Popcorn Maker

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I ordered the Red Bar Style "Roosevelt" 8 ounce popcorn machine for our soccer league concession stand this past August. I had done a lot of searching to try & find something that would fit in to our budget but was still of a commercial grade. What a GREAT find this was! The machine is great, pops the corn quickly, cleans up very easily & the drawer in the bottom for the unpopped kernels is wonderful! I also ordered the popcorn portion packs from Discount Tommys (several times now) as I didn't want to mess with measuring oil, popcorn etc. I was a little skeptical at how it would taste but I can honestly tell you popcorn became our biggest seller this fall at our concession stand. Customer Service is great! They shipped everything quickly & the packing was superb! I wold definitely recommend this popcorn machine for home use & concessions/church events etc!

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I have owned this popcorn machine for a few months now and it has performed good. But if you are like me, you always get a little "smarter" after the purchase. For the price this machine is probably good as it gets, add a little more money and you have better made machines to choose from. It works for me right now but I would not expect it to last very long if it was used heavily in a commercial type setting. After I purchased it, I found a popcorn machine dealer here and looked at some other machines including a Paragon machine that was only a little bit more money than this one. The fit and finish and materials on the Paragon was much better and appeared built to handle heavy usage. This one is 860 watts which is good and only requires about 5 or 6 minutes to heat up. One issue I noticed is the 8oz kettle on this machine is not very deep. I saw another 8oz machine with a kettle nearly 1 inch deeper. I think the shallow kettle helps too many kernels to go flying about unpopped and end up in the old maid tray. I watched a commercial popper do its thing and there were hardly any unpopped kernels left. There are a bunch with this machine even with using the pre-portion packs. I even added weight to the flip up kettle doors and that has helped but once the popcorn gets popping good and the doors fly open, the uncooked kernels come a flyin. One other issue I see is how the power cord is attached to the kettle. This one is attached via a magnet and seems to easily pop loose when you turn the kettle up to shake the remainder out. I think there could be a better means of attaching the cord to the kettle. Again some of the other types I have seen have a heavy duty flexible cord permanently attached. My unit was made in China according to the box it came in and I think it is good for the Home Theater and occasional use. My next machine will probably be a different brand from this one. Again it has performed good in my home theater with occasional use, but I have doubts about taking it to a function and cooking popcorn for 200 people.

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I bought this popcorn popper about 3 months ago and we have enjoyed it very much. It is very well made and the price from Discount Tommy was great. We have ordered popcorn from Discount Tommy along with other items and we have always had great response. I would recommend this item for anyone who wants a great popcorn popper for a good price. It makes the best popcorn and everyone in our family loves it. It really made a great addition to our movie watching. It has all the features that you need and it also is very easy to clean and take care of.

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First of all I've been shopping around for one of these machines for months. I've looked at the restaurant supply houses (TOO expensive), visited other websites (same too much plastic and too expensive), then stumbled onto "Discount Tommy" items here on Amazon. OK. I first had to get over making a purchase from a seller by the name of "Discount Tommy". Being cautious, I read reviews, both here on Amazon, and their eBay listings! NOT BAD! OK The Roosevelt 8 ounce machine with cart was just what I was looking for for my office staff and training sessions we host throughout the month of March. And the specs looked impressive. I even checked out the Great American Popcorn site the firm that actually manufacturers these machines. Solid data!

The unit arrived actually a day ahead of their delivery estimate, after literally being shipped on the same day I ordered it here! I thought that was a good start!

I lost office productivity from everyone for about a hour while we fiddled with a simply assembly, then, yep, fired it up with our first batch of GAP "pre-packs" also purchased from DT. Yahoo. That yumo popcorn aroma was everywhere.

Thanks. Good job. I am an office hero!

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Received the poppcorn machine and it had one flaw. Spoke with owner and all was taken care of immediately. Actually I was taken care of more than I had anticipated. Excellent customer service and quick response time. The popper machine itself was the best buy for the buck. I have recommended this unit to several friends and relatives. I used to work at a movie theatre where we popped are own popcorn and one thing I know from experience is to get the oil hot, then pour in the popcorn and salt mix while the bar in the kettle is moving. This will increase your popcorn rate and not have to worry about unit jamming or having burnt popcorn.

Watch the sweep bar as it moves. If moved out of alignment with the bottom of the kettle when cleaning, readjust to leave about 1/15 to 1/8 clearance for best results.

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When I first saw this maker I was intrigued by it's sleek Euro-cool style. I was slightly dismayed by the fact that there is no timer, clock, or auto shutoff; however, those were properties I knew going in didn't exist.

After I started using the Villaware, I liked it ok. It made coffee in a standard way, no better or worse than any other pot I've used in the past.

I had it for six months and then the spring broke that lets you use the 'sneak-a-cup' feature. This is after completely normal use. Not too long after that, the pot's burner plate has burned itself off and it leaks from underneath.

This is the worst coffee maker I have ever used. Do yourself a favor and pass this one up. As for me, I'm going back to my handy standby--the Black and Decker SmartBrew Plus. Consumer Reports has this coffee maker listed as 'CR Best Buy', and I've never had a problem with it.

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I purchased this coffeemaker and it has performed perfectly for about three years. I friend noticed it and was impressed with its style, so we purchased them one as a gift. The gift had flaws which made it unusable. The spring was installed improperly and the valve to shut off the flow was so low that the carafe could not be removed. We're not talking hard to remove, we're talking impossible to remove. Villawares customer service was a joke,..."Sorry we no longer service that model, it's discontinued."

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Interesting and attractive design but very poorly made. The spring in the "Sneak a cup" valve broke in just a few weeks. Avoid the hassle and get a more reliable design

Discount SPT WA-1230E 12,000-BTU Portable Air Conditioner with Remote Control

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I bought this AC unit during the excess heat wave this summer. The unit, (once properly vented) works really well for cooling my bed room but it shuts off when the water needs drained. Durning these hot temperatures this is after only 2-2.5 hrs. Draining the water is not an easy task because the drain is only 1 inch from the floor so you can only use a really really shallow dish. It does come with a hose to connect to a drain for continous drainage but the drain must be below or at the same level as the AC unit.

This drainage problem makes the unit NOT useful for long term cooling (you can't run it all night or use it to cool while at work)

As a long term solution I am working on buidling a stand to set the unit on for continous drainage into a bucket but it is heavey and vibration makes noise a problem. Other portable AC unit have a collecting bottle which is easy to revome for drainage.

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I bought my Sunpentown in May of 2005. When it arrived the LED display was broken and the 12,000 BTU air conditioner was not capable of cooling my 150 square foot room. I called Sunpentown and explained the situation. They said that as long as the output temperature was 20% cooler than the input temperature the unit was considered to be functioning properly.

Do the math. If your room is 95 degrees, a 20% reduction means that the air coming out of the AC is still a sweltering 78 degrees! A 12,000 BTU air conditioner should turn my tiny room into a meat locker, even on the hottest days. The Sunpentown struggled to make the room comfortable anytime the temperature exceeded 80 degrees. Since the LCD was broken I decided to have them replace my unit hoping that I might get a better one. The second unit worked as poorly as the first, but at least the LCD was visible.

As others have noted, drainage is a constant issue with these units. Mine would only run for 3-4 hours before drainage was required so I wound up putting it on a stand and running a hose from the discharge area to a 5 gallon bucket. There is simply too much water produced for it to successfully blow out the exhaust hose. It should be noted that my unit only had 1.5 feet of exhaust hose with no bends so it was an ideal installation. If you have any bends in the hose it will only make matters worse.

In August 2006 the unit quit cooling the air. The compressor would kick on, but no cooling occurred. I called Sunpentown but since my unit was 3 months over the 1 year warranty they wouldn't do anything. My only option was to ship the unit to their facility at my cost, have them diagnose and repair the unit at "flat rate" (but they wouldn't discuss specific prices) and ship it back to me at my expense.

Not wanting to incur $175 in shipping charges PLUS the unspecified repair fees just to return my Sunpentown Portable Air Conditioner to its unacceptably poor level of functionality I sent my unit to a place it truly belongs THE LANDFILL.

If a normal window unit won't work for you, save yourself a lot of money/time/aggravation and buy a giant industrial size fan. Sunpentown builds lousy products and provides lousy service when those products fail.

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My experience with a Supentown Portable AC Unit is very similar to what 'Thorion (Rome, NY)' reported. I purchased a WA-1200E in June 2006 and it died last week (end of June 2007). This unit was lightly used (less than 10 hours per week during warm months only) . I contacted their support staff and, although they were prompt to reply, they indicated that the unit was out of warranty and that nothing was covered. They gave me the option of shipping the unit (85 lbs) at my own expense back to their warehouse in CA. They would then determine what part(s) failed and charge me for the replacement parts, labor and return shipping. Their other suggestion / advice was to take it to a local repair shop of my choice and have them find out the problem...then order the replacement parts from them. Either way....TERRIBLE! For a costly unit like this it should last way longer than 12 1/2 months. DO NOT BUY!!!

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I was shocked at how useless this thing was. I would turn this unit on immediately when I come home from work. The initial reading on the unit would say something like 95% (house was all closed up). The unit could not even drop the room temperature below 90%. After about 1hr the exhaust hose would radiate so much heat into the room that the unit made a better heater than air conditioner. The vents blow upwards as if to cool the ceiling. You cannot adjust them vertically. The unit is also very loud.

I returned the unit after giving it a try for about 3 weeks. The other pain is returning this. You have to put it back in the box it came in with all the paper work and then carry this 85 pound box to a fedex place to have it shipped back to the manufacturer. You have to pay shipping to send it back and you are not refunded that amount. Plus there is a 6% restocking fee.

Good riddance.

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I bought this product in the summer of 07. I live in a room over the garage that gets the brunt of the sun and therefor reaches 78-80 degrees even with the AC on. At first the unit after running for a couple hours would drop the temp to 72 on a summer day but no lower. The first spring/summer I did not have to change the water at all. The next spring/summer it could only drop the temp down to 73-74 and I had to change the water 5-6 times. Now only less than 3 years later we are in the midst of our first 80 degree week. The unit is only dropping the temp to 75 and I've had to change the water twice in two days.

Please read everyone's review about how hard it is to change the water. I can confirm every complaint.

If I had to do it over I would have gone another route towards cooling my room.

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I've had one of these for several years and I've just ordered a second one for another room in our house. We live in northern California and use ours to keep our daughter's room a few degrees warmer than the rest of the house at night (71 or 72 instead of the 66 degrees we set our central heat for). Positives: cute, stays cool to the touch, doesn't heat up the cord or make worrying electrical noises or seem cheap and scary like other space heaters. Quiet fan operation doesn't disturb her if I turn it on or off at night, and the controls seem pretty simple to me. Negatives: I agree with the other reviewers that this is never going to help you heat an unheated workshop or in a very cold climate. It works great for a bathroom, bedroom or an office to supplement central heat when you don't need to keep the whole house as warm. For us the only real negative is that the thermostat could be a little more reliable mostly it seems to approximately work, but sometimes I'll notice that the heater runs the room up into the upper 70s and it doesn't shut off, even though when you test the thermostat setting by hand it should have. We use a Belkin outlet timer cutoff in the winter to plug this into so that it doesn't run more than 3 hrs at night and we don't have to remember to check.

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This unit has a cool design but does not put out any heat. Even on the high heat setting the heat this unit puts out feels like tepid water. I will be returning this for a refund.

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I have had this fan for more than 5 years, and don't understand the negative reviews here. It looks good, and puts out a lot of heat very quickly. It is a heater fan, so do expect a little noise from the fan blades.

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Nice design and function. Heats a room 11x13 very nicely. However, the heat coils makes a audibly annoying whirring sound when put to level 2 (max). Its still there on mode 1 but less bothersome. Still, wish the heat coils made no sound at all.

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This is a piece of junk. It doesn't put out much heat, and died after a couple years of minimal use. It probably would have died sooner if we had used it more, but since it was basically useless, we didn't use it much. Avoid, you can get a much better heater for half the cost.

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I've had this hot plate for a couple of weeks as of this writing. I use it mainly for cooking rice. Initially, I was bothered by its temperature-cycling (resulting from the heating element's high power and low mass, and the imprecise nature of the low-cost temperature control system), but once I found the right setting, I found that it does a good job on rice, and more quickly than my previous hot plate, which kept a more even temperature but took forever to get up to temperature and cool down.

When it came time to clean beneath the heating element, I realized that the element cannot be lifted, perhaps to prevent it from being damaged by flexing. I found that a flimsy bottle brush can reach most of the area underneath the burner, and that a toothbrush can reach the rest.

I opened it up, and found that it appears to be quite well made inside. The temperature control is mechanical in nature, and it controls the temperature by causing a mechanical change to a bimetalic strip. So, it wouldn't wear out like a potentiometer.

So, although cleaning it takes some effort, I consider it a small price to pay for the performance and quality. But only time will tell whether its apparent quality translates into longevity.

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My primary purpose for purchasing this item was to light hookah coals. The coils get hot very quickly and stay hot, since there is no auto shut-off feature like most other models. It has a plug to attach to the wall and has a red light when it is off (when the knob is at 0) and a green light when it is on (when the knob is at 1-5 or Max). I've lit coco nara's in about 5-10 minutes. This is insanely fast compared most methods of lighting coals in your own home.

I've not noticed the counter beneath the coils rising in temperature at all, but the white box is made of metal and does retain heat when the coils are on.

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I'm sure this could be used for a lot of reasons. I use it to heat up the coconut charcoals for my hookah, and it works great for that. This range has a variable temperature control and the hottest setting gets REALLY hot.

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Bought this for the sole purpose of using it to light natural coconut hookah charcoals. No Auto-OFF feature like other models. Turn this up and it keeps the heat as long as you need it to. Can't comment on using it to cook with, but I'm sure it serves well in that department. Don't waste your money on buying burners through Hookah/Shisha websites. Go the Amazon route and save...as always!

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I've postponed getting a portable electric plate for years because the reviews on them always complain that the plates can't boil water. I need it to make coffee, so it must boil and fairly quickly. Came across this one and was surprised by the good reviews. This Toastess isn't fancy, but it boils the water!