GOAT Hotel AC unit
GOAT Hotel AC unit
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If only they weren’t so goddamn noisy.
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Nah the noise is perfect to drown out every single noise in the hallway because the doors aren't soundproof at all.
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So true. Hotels, you have one job: provide somewhere for me to sleep. That means make an attempt at soundproofing. Ah well.
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They're noisy because they are inefficient. But still more efficient than any ceiling fan
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They're noisy because they are inefficient.
It's probably both noisy and inefficient if it's made really cheap, but is that causation true?
But still more efficient than any ceiling fan
Not really comparable since ACs change the air temperature, while fans just move air.
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I don't know how you measure efficiency but if you measure the amount of energy required for each degree of apparent temperature dropped then a fan is way way more efficient.
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And so energy inefficient.
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On Hoth, you philistine.
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Eh.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Echo_Base
The Echo Base was the facility established by the Rebel Alliance on the frigid planet of Hoth
The interior of Echo Base extended seven levels below the surface, with the lower levels for barracks, rec rooms, maintenance hangars and fuel stores.
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Not if they mean inside the Wampa cave
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Fuck those A/C units that require leaving a card in them to work
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I haven't seen that but I believe you. Can you not just get an extra card from the front desk, or do they have it further enshittified in some way?
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Eh, if you're leaving your ac on all day when you're out, that's quite a waste. Card operation helps avoid accidentally leaving ac and lights on.
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Any card works though, you can probably buy blank ones for this purpose.
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A library/gym membership card or supermarket points card will work nicely. I’ve yet to find a hotel that takes electricity conservation so seriously to install card switches with RFID readers.
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Newer versions of these can have par levels set for the temps and I don’t know who thinks 74f is a comfortable room temp, but no… it is not.
Fortunately, internet legends went on to explain how to put these into service mode, thereby defeating their laughable levels. Just gotta remember to put it back to their mode when you’re checking out.
But, yeah, these things fkn crank coldness. And the electric bill. And the environment.
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I think if a hotel billed me for resetting their AC I would throw the bill away and see if they really want to waste their time with collections and court.
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My take was to not let them in on the secret.
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and see if they really want to waste their time with collections
It would be the collections agency who's time would be spent in court, not the hotel's. And collection agencies are in the business of collecting debt, so I don't think they would see it as a waste of time.
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Yeah seriously, that's a comfortable sleeping temp when you can snuggle under the blankets to stay warm, but way too cold for daytime use. I'd be pissed if my hotel kept turning down the temperature for no good reason.
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I once considered moving from Seattoe to Bremerton, WA to take advantage of the much cheaper real estate. In attempt to get a feel for the daily commute, I decided to stay at a Super 8 in Bremerton for a week. 5 minutes into that experiment, I flicked on the AC unit that looks just like this one and it reeked of cat pee.
I did not move to Bremerton.
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In that Super 8s probably rarely see cats who enjoy urinating on electrical equipment (although I'm sure that's happened nonzero number of times), it's probably a ton of condensed meth. When it's in secondhand form, exhaled or wasted, it's hydroscopic and instantly mixes with the room humidity, which is then processed by the A/C coils, where it accumulates.
Possibly the room was actually used to manufacture meth. I mean, I used to manage REO properties on Bremerton, and I definitely cleaned up the remains of a few meth labs.
But maybe Mr Fluffy did go to urinetown on it, who knows. Bremerton.
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It was Bremerton, it was most likely meth.
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You just vastly improved a family story that we've told numerous times over the years. Thank you for sharing your meth-related knowledge.
Also, I think this hotel was across the street from a house that exploded the previous year, so yeah. Bremerton.
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Cold rooms have improved my sleep and made my life better.
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Spike?
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I haven't gone on a vaction where I needed a hotel in a LONG time, but yes. the Ac units in every hotel room I've ever been in are pretty baws
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I hope you'll think about not using vacation rentals like airbnb. I obviously have no clue what you actually do on vacation.
They're so destructive to local communities. Homes are for living, not some
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This is true but I think it's worth noting that the most impactful and worst aspects of AirBnB and its ilk are from investors buying old apartment buildings and renting them out like hotels, while dodging all the living standards and financial regulations of actual hotels. If they get away with this it absolutely wrecks the local low-income housing market.
Private homeowners renting out rooms in their houses, or even renting out their whole house, for vacationers are not really the problem.
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I live in Hawai’i and I approve this message
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Couch surfing and hostels for the win.
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I hope you’ll think about not using vacation rentals like airbnb.
I'll never use Airbnb or anything like it.
I obviously have no clue what you actually do on vacation.
Camping, sometimes I pull my 5th wheel with my truck, but usually when I go on vacation I camp in my huge tents
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Second time I've seen this meme... Never experienced it. They always sucked compared to even cheap window units. Half the time barely able to push below 22*. Granted I spent a lot of time as a kid on summer break locked up in a room with an 80s high end window unit that could get the room to 10* on a 25+* day.
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Perhaps it's more of an American thing, these are super common in budget hotels and have the ability to freeze you to death
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I met one for the first time ever on a work trip to NC and can confim i nearly died overnight...
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I think it’s down to lack of maintenance. Either there’s a refrigerant leak, or the condenser side is clogged. Most budget hotels don’t have the best maintenance.
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I've worked at hotels. People still figure out how to complain about these things.
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Used to have an office that was an addition to the building, with no room to connect it to the main HVAC. I had one of these to myself. The window on my office door fogged up frequently because I set the thing to give-visitors-frostbite-cold.
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Amana Distinction PTAC Air Conditioner or something like it
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Holy crap I stayed at a place In Portland last year that had this exact model. Amazingly it worked.
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Amazingly it worked.
Are you doing a Yoda thing, or were you expecting it not to work?
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I got it once I looked up what a Hoth is.
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I am so fucking old.
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Harrow-on-the-Hill station?
Edit: Oh shit, I just now understood the name of BadLip's Hostiles on the Hill song
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District heating/cooling should be standard :)
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You will check out with pneumonia guaranteed or your money back!
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i have central cooling instead of this in my country ngl.
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I will never understand people who WANT to be cold. I'd rather be a sweatball than a little chilly. When I see one of these it usually get immediately turned off, because yeah, they do some fucking work.
edit: Apparently people who like to be cold are really sensitive about not being understood. 😂
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Because I can’t take off my skin but I can put on more clothes/blankets. As a human nuclear furnace, I sweat and get uncomfortable as rooms start going over 70f. It’s miserable.
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Trade ya. My feet and hands will start turning to ice in a room below 70F.
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Calculates weird units to celsius...
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Okay. I tend to, in winter, live in ~60f. When temperature hits and stays at 70, I am moving onto the floor (ground level so cellar cools down the floors a bit)
Edit: Although I just got reminded about a coworker I knew that in winter, where we had around 5f outside, cranked his home heat to 82f. Straight up horror story for me xD
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I don't want to be cold. I want to be comfortable. I want to not sweat. And for that to happen, I need the room to be cold.
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Warm hotel rooms always feel stuffy, no thank you
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...and smell. They're stuffy and they smell.
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iirc people believe that cold environment warm insulated blanket promotes better sleeping.
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Maybe it's Placebo but I definitely get much better quality of sleep in the winter time. I keep my room very cold and I have some nice big heavy blankets to keep me warm in the bed. And winter is by far the time of year that I regularly wake up feeling refreshed and not groggy
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Yeah but straight up I'm not getting out of bed in the morning in those temperatures
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because you are wrapped up burrito style like in the womb I guess. and most human heat exchange happens through the head (I read somewhere).
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Humid climates really necessitate it unless you want to swim in bed.
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Well I don’t want to be cold, but I crank the AC and snuggle up under the covers. It’s a treat somehow.
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Your opinion is wrong! Screw you for sharing it.
I'm going to make 10 new accounts just to downvote you, you heat lover.
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I don't get it myself. Anything under 75f for me and I'm breaking out the parka. Of course, where I live I'd ice up an ac trying to get my place too much under 80f over the summer.
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I'd rather the room be slightly colder than I want than warmer because I can put on a jumper, but the number of downvotes on you sharing your opinion is insane haha
Here's an updoot to even it out a little, even though YOU'RE SO WRONG
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"Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world, 'No, you move'."
You people who like the cold are WRONG and global warming is gonna take care of your bullshit in a couple hundred years! 😆
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Fuck PTACs, and the developers who install them.
All over NYC, Brooklyn, Queens, Jersey City, you see fucking 1.2 million dollar condos or $5000/mo "luxury apartments" with these fuckers in every room.
It's a giant hole in the wall, you literally can see outside if you take the plastic cover off to change/clean the filter.
They're window units that have a dedicated window.
They're also monstrously inefficient compared to mini splits even before you account for leaving a giant uninsulated hole in your wall with free movement of air between the inside and the outside.
I laugh every time I see one of these shoved in right below a brand new quadruple pane low-e argon filled latest ultra efficiency mega R value vinyl window. Yeah, the window is not where your air leak is, bro.
There shouldn't be free movement of air with one of these. That defeats the whole purpose of it. If there's actually airflow across, someone fucked up the installation.
Though, yeah, it's not the most efficient setup. The only thing worse is a portable ac with a single vent hose.
They also look huge, in Europe the standard is to have an outside unit and an inside unit.
That's the standard in North America as well for single family homes or even condo buildings where they might put the condenser on the balcony or use a heat pump with a central loop.
I would guess these are popular in New York because they have many many old buildings with central heat and it's easier to punch a hole in the wall then hang somethings off the building 8 floors up. Also easier to work on the unit.