Why can't window AC's hang BELOW the ledge?

[harpon]

Wouldn't that be great?

Window air conditioners that hung below the window, so that more of the noise stayed outside like a central unit?

There could be a duct end, grill and sensor remote and control units on the end, for normal operation, but the whole thing would require the window to be less open- probably at least half of the standard window AC opening-

because most of the unit hangs outside.

I wonder why there's none, or even more portable "one duct" Outside AC units similar to central air.

I'm getting old and too many projects around the home, but still hoping I can build a shallow "bay window" and extended wall of sorts- the outer windows perhaps just extended storm windows- so I can leave the unit in the window through the winter- and still close the original window in front of it.

here in Jacksonville- it's in and out almost exactly 1/2 year apiece-
and getting heavier all the time!

or I'm just going to have to get a good cover-

the trouble is that there's a garbage truck maintenance and parking facility down the street and diesel truck noise sometimes 22 hours a day.

It might be nice to close a window over it occasionally.

 

[norgeway]

WESTINGHOUSES!

DID in the 60s! they hung down at least a foot or so, and you couldnt hardly hear them run...My neighbor had one when I was a kid..It was wonderful!

 

[alr2903]

It was a great idea.   Especially in humid areas with high humidity.  Even with yearly removal and cleaning the drain system can get clogged up with mold  midseason, maybe the water would drip outside with this design until you could tend to it.

 

[whirlcool]

In the 60's & 70's most room air conditioners only had about six inches protruding into the room. Norge made a rather strange model, there was a split right down the center of the machine from left to right. The idea was that you had the indoor part in the house and then you closed the window. The window would slide into the gap on the a/c unit all the way to about three inches from the sill. The idea was to keep the noisy part of the a/c unit outside and only the quiet part indoors.

I saw quite a number of these on my paper route around 1963-4 or so. They were quite small units maybe in the 6-8,000 BTU range. You usually saw them in either bedroom or kitchen windows. Does anyone have a photo of one of these? I can't for the life of me find one.

 

[norgeway]

I cant find a picture of.

The Westinghouse either..

 

[washer111]

In Australia, we had the "old fashioned" Email-LTD "Weather-Wall" units. 

 

Inside, you had a small profusion, where the system had an intake and an outlet vent, along with some concealed controls. 

Outside, the system was probably about the height of the average person, and included all the handling equipment, with the compressor down near the ground (along with its condenser). 

 

See attached photo

 

[neptunebob]

Popular in our area

Because a lot of people worked for Westinghouse but for some reason, White-Westinghouse never picked up on the design. Soon they went away when people got central air conditioning. I think such an air conditioner has been replaced by the mini-split units like Mitsubishi. But I don't think Westinghouse was anywhere near as expensive as a mini-split is.

 

[yogitunes]

wasn't there one by Whirlpool I think, about 10 years ago, it only required the window to be open 6 inches, where the controls and vents were shown.....more of an "L" shape, the bigger part hung outside and down the side of the house....

 

[petek]

I had one of those split window units, they were made by Heat Controller in Jackson Mich and sold under that name as well as rebranded. Eatons in Canada sold them as well. Phil posted a brochure of them a few months ago on here.

 

[countryguy]

You can get a split duct system where the compressor is outside and only a fan unit hangs on the wall inside connected by tubing running through a small hole through the wall completely unseen from inside. This system works well and is very quiet.

Gary

 

[davey7]

I've seen the ads

I've seen the ads for those, they were always in National Geographic. I imagine they were expensive and hard to maneuver in and out of the window, plus I'd imagine they could be unsteady or unsafe in taller buildings - I would think that AC companies wouldn't want either the liability or the complexity of manufacturing a model for first floors and a model for higher floors.

Someone around the corner from me used to have a set up where they'd disassembled a window/through-wall unit and had the condenser permanently mounted outside on a rack and (I assume, I never went inside) the blower and guts of the inside coils somewhere inside. I assume they had two fans and fan motors.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Hotpoint made a similar unit with a track for the window to close in the middle. With Hotpoint, you needed it. They made some noisy air conditioners in the late 50s-early 60s.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I've seen wall-mounted A/C's turn to holes that they made, having to be bricked over if the unit were moved or more likely if the home up-graded to central A/C...

Under or even over windows, too!

-- Dave

 

[joe_in_philly]

Frigidaire makes a low-profile unit.

http://www.rakuten.com/prod/6-000-btu-low-profile-window-a-c-w-ionizer/220187920.html?listingId=320852072&scid=pla_google_DependableResource&adid=18172&gclid=CMiqhrOopL0CFYyhOgodwQYAiA