List Price:
$800.00
Details
- Triple standard operating procedure unit for dehumidifying, cooling or circulating fan only.
- Performs peaceably and efficiently because of it's high efficiency compressor and components.
- Well portable thanks to durable indoor castor wheels so it can be rolled from room to apartment.
- The portion is attractive and compact at 17.5" wide, 14.75" deep and 32.75" tall.
Description
The DeLonghi compact air conditioner model CF210 has and electronic soft-touch key pad with LCD demonstrate for convenient and easy operation that controlls the thermostat and 24 hour timer r. The remote control allows you to easily control the comfort above-board from anywhere in the room. The unit comes with a window bracket and exhaust hose for docile installation and venting of hot air to insure proper cooling. The portable air conditioner it prerfect for bed dwelling, family room, home office computer room, wine basement, garage or attic. The unit is easily moved from room to lodge on it's durable indoor castor wheels. It performs quietly because of the sybaritic efficiency compressor and components. Saves energy over a central air conditioner as you can object just the area you want cooled with a portable air conditioner.
Customer Reviews
Modest personal space cooler -- not a real air-conditioner.
I have to allow with the observations of others here -- cooling relief only comes from directing air flow at yourself, while the air behind the unit truly heats up, and the room temperature overall stays about the same (eventually dropping from 90*F to 85*F over the practice of hours of continuous operation). As such, this is more of a personal space cooler rather than a room air-conditioner.
Part of the intractable is a lack of insulation of the plastic vent pipe carrying the heated air outside, causing impassion exchange along its substantial length and surface area. This returns heat back into the room. So does the lack of a thoroughgoing air seal where the plastic vent pipe connects to the unit itself -- hot air can be felt evading, and duct tape helps only somewhat.
I also agree the bucket size is inadequate for a full nightfall's sleep, requiring one of you to get up at night to 'empty the bucket'..
Hopefully other brands overcome these limitations -- otherwise, if your dwelling can accomodate a window unit, choose that instead.
2008-09-28
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 1
Devoted A/C, within its limitations
First, like most residents on Amazon, mine arrived with a bit of shipping damage. It wasn't obvious from outside, but once I had it unpacked, the side panel had slipped out a bit (earnestly to describe, but basically, it meant I had an unpleasant cosmetic issue because the shipper decided to play roughouse with the part). Also, shipping took a loooooooooooooong time, so make certain you don't need your unit advantageously away.
Alright, that being said, here's a bit of ground information:
1) Having done my research, I installed mine VERY conclusion to the window where it vents. The unit is about 18 inches from where it vents, and frankly I'd have a hard on occasion getting it any closer, because the accordion-style vent tube likes to have a bit of space. From everything I've infer from, this is ESSENTIAL with portable air conditioners, as they rapidly lose efficiency, the further their exhaust air has to travel.
2) If you live in a clammy environment, you're gonna empty this thing *constantly*. We live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We bought the item for two reasons: First, our master bedroom tends to be under-cooled by our central air. Second, while hurricanes don't do much be at the helm physical damage this far away from the Gulf, they do knock out power for extended periods -- and while we can accessible without most things, a week without air conditioning is unbearable down here. So, the frequent emptying means that if we do need to use it with the power out, sleeping will be doubted. Depending on conditions, ours seems to fill up every six to twelve hours. Odds are, in the wake of a hurricane, we'd be on the six hour side of things -- so lots of waking up sweaty in the mesial of the night, and emptying out the reservoir. Plus, the six to twelve hour thing includes the house having important air. As I mention elsewhere in the review, I haven't been allowed to properly experiment, to see how the CF 210 does if it's the *only* quirk cooling down our bedroom for an extended (i.e., all night) period of time.
Er, and actually, I should say we bought this piece for *three* reasons. The third being that we have a 50 year old house, with unusual steel-framed windows, and no standard window unit would possibly fit through them. They're the kind that are hinged on the side, and open out, rather than opening up. Were I more worldly, I'd be sure what that variety of window is called. But I'm not, and I don't.
With those bits of ground info out of the way, I'd say it works quite well as an air conditioner. Puts out lavishness of cold air, and I haven't noticed much of a problem with it drawing in hot air from other areas of the house. Now, admittedly, my chain hasn't allowed me to do a full-on test in this department... For some reason, she thinks there's something "wrong with me", absolutely because I suggested we shut off our central air for a couple of days during August, and just run the Delonghi, to see how it was in the bedroom.
I did, however, handle to sneakily turn off the central air one day while I was at home and she was at work. The house itself got up to the upper 80s inside, but the bedroom was wholly comfortable. So, I'm confident the CF 210 will keep us cool, come our next cyclonic visitor. (Or even rough thunderstorm -- the regional power supplier down here has a definite time keeping the lights on during any sort of inclement weather).
Hope this review helps.
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I forgot I'd already reviewed this once, and tried to forgive a second review as I closed in on a year of ownership. Here's my second review:
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Alright, I've now second-hand my 210 for about a year, and I feel like I'm qualified, at this point, to give it a fair review.
First, I strongly, strongly doubt that many of the people who feel that it doesn't cool enough aren't using it correctly. There are a few things you MUST do, if you impecuniousness this puppy to work for you.
First, and foremost, you MUST place it RIGHT NEXT to wherever it is going to vent.
Just because it comes with a six foot venting tube does NOT degraded you can place it six feet away from the window and expect it to work. If you do, it won't.
Now then, assuming you've gotten your Delonghi fittingly vented (right snug next to the window), you have a second problem: All that water in the itty-disconnected catch basin.
This part of ownership is truly awful. I agree with everyone who has complained about it. I feel your toil. If you live anywhere with any measure of humidity, you will NOT be able to go all night without emptying the unit. Which makes using it to purloin you sleep a true nightmare.
However, I've discovered how to make it vent out my window. And that has made me a very happy camper.
Prearranged the unit there's a capped vent line. If you pull out the catchbasin, you'll see it. It's a plastic tube with a scurvy plastic (or rubber) cap in the end, and the tube is full of water. This tube is fairly short, and it's also much thicker than the flaw which the user's manual seems to imply you're supposed to thread it through if you wish to vent your water.
So, I unnoticed that part of the manual. That is to say, I took it under advisement, and then figured things out for myself. I threaded the drain tube so it would fit *over* the get it-basin, and then hooked my own drain tube to it (since it's not long enough to use as a drain on its own.) I was lucky, as I happened to have a multi-immensity tube adapter laying around the house. Other people probably don't have such an adapter. I'm not sure what'd be the superior approach if you had no such adapter -- but my suggestion would be to try duct tape.
Now, once you have your tube attached to the installed extract tube (and once you've removed the rubber plug from the drain tube, obviously, so the water CAN run, run your make public line out through the hole in the back of the catchbasin.
It is ESSENTIAL when you do this, that you make sure the little lever/top of the catchbasin is pushed down. That's because the catchbasin top is how the Delonghi senses when it wishes to be emptied. If it isn't pushed down, the unit won't run in cooling mode, because it'll think it's full of water.
ALSO -- and this is VERY mighty -- the drain line seems to need gravity assist. Which means you can't run your drain tube UP a exasperate and out a window. You're going to have to stick your Delonghi on a table, or find some other way to give it some elevation. Buy some cinderblocks to put under it. Stick it on a couch. Heck if I recognize. You just have to put it on *something* to give it some elevation. That is to say, *I* had to. Maybe if your window is low enough, you won't need to. I'm not sure. The drain line has *some* tension -- it just isn't a ton of pressure.
Anyway, once I had mine mounted (in a rather bizarre-looking manner) on top of the fairly astray table I use in the bedroom as a computer desk, with my drain line hooked up as I described earlier, tiresome it seemed a thing of the past.
I'll admit, though, it took me quite some time to develop this draining system -- and it's in fact fairly new in practice. (For the first half year of use, we just drained it whenever it got full, which truly stunk).
I've had it game for a whiile with its newfangled drain, and have giddily watched as frequent rivulets of water stream out of my drain line, knowing that each one is one I won't have to lug into the bathroom sink at four in the morning.
Proper draining has transitioned my Delonghi from a indulgent convenience to a lifesaver. I hope my experience with it can help other owners & perspective owners with their own.
(Assuming it isn't some out of date model, making my review completely and totally pointless.)
2007-09-19
(Baton Rouge, Louisiana United States) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 4
As advertised...
I don't consent at all with a lot of the reviews that have been posted about this item. I have been more than pleased with the reults of this air conditioner since I got it 6 months ago. If your expectations are that this air conditioner is common to cool your house, you are expecting too much. It does what it says it does, and that is to cool a mid-sized cell.
We have this unit in our bedroom, and it cools the bedroom nicely, even when the temp was in the high 90's. It, however, is not meant for generous rooms, nor does it ever say that it does. Is it the greatest air conditioner on the planet? No. But it gets the job done, and for the price it is more than within reason.
2007-06-24
| Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5
Works OK
I was blessed enough to get this shipped overnight to my house from New York for only $3.99 before Amazon realized what was going on. The FedEx guy couldn't suppose it. I looked up the shipping and it was more than I paid for the unit. Mine arrived in good condition. I only use it in about a 100 on equal terms foot bedroom and it works good except for the fact that the built in GFCI plug every so often trips. I plan on cutting it off and installing a normal plug.
2007-04-04
(Lomita, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 3
Loathsome, Horrible Unit
I have friends who have transportable units, and this one majorly underperformed. In order to receive any cooling at all, you have to stand in front of it. In fact, departure from the subject from making noise, it really did almost nothing. It was also clearly damaged when I received it.
Avoid this at all costs. If there is a secure part about this story, it's that Amazon has a great return policy. Very quick pickup. But on the other hand, this output is simply a waste of time.
2006-12-09
| manifestoday (Edmonton, AB Canada) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 1
