How often, and how difficult is it to drain this unit? It seems one hose draws in outside air and the other exhausts warm room air. Is this the case?
1571985
I live in a dry area, CO, and have not had to drain it all summer. We do not use the humidifier part of the unit.
1571986
Yes, we do have intake and exhaust to the outside. The drain is a small outlet at the very bottom of the unit that is hard to get at. We currently have the unit up on a small bench with a dish pan underneath. The drain is left open and drips constantly while we are running the unit. The dish pan fills up after 4 hours of running it so we have to remember to shut it down and empty the pan from time to time.
1571987
One hose is air intake, other is warm air exhaust/some condensate. Havnt had to drain my unit in few days, it will shut off if needed. Make sure it is level, may run out of edge area of pan before it shuts off.. Great unit.
1571988
Unless you are using it as a dehumidifier, no drain is required. In A/C mode, it expels moisture through the exhaust hose, but it isn't droplets. More like a dryer vent. Yes, two hoses -- air in and out.
1571989
I have had it for 2 months and never had to drain it. It reuses the water it collects to cool the room. Not that it NEVER needs draining. But if it did, the drain is right at the bottom. You would have to slide a tray under it and use that to drain it.
502866
I unscrewed the plug in the back, lifted the air conditioner, and poured it into a container. Not very easy. It is quite heavy. I have read some reviews on amazon that say they attached a hose for draining. I am considering that, but I have only drained mine once in two years. It was sort of a nightmare situation, because the unit was actually leaking. My amazon review on May 15, 2014 explains that story.
229309
Hi,I use mine in a summer home. I plumbed it with stainless flex lines, they fit right on the unit's hot and cold connections. Come fall I shut the power off, shut water lines off and unscrew (hand tightened) the flex lines, lift the unit up off the hook bracket and tip it upside down to drain. Even with two and a half gallon (~20lbs) of water it's not hard. I tip it a couple of different ways and that's it until spring.I did plumb in a pressure sensor in the inlet line that controls the 110v to the unit to prevent the heater from burning out if there is a loss of water pressure.
2144519
You will need a place to exhaust the air that is used to cool the compressor. Oh, and this is IMPORTANT!!!!! When I got the unit set up and running in the bedroom I found that the unit was fighting itself on cooling because the exhaust hose used to cool the compressor etc. was hotter than heck. I talked to the Sylvane people and they said that was normal. What???? So, I have an AC working at the top and a room heater working in the back thru the exhaust hose, pretty much greatly reducing the cooling efficiency. I ended up buying a roll of 1/4 inch thick air cell insulation with the silver mylar face, front and back, and using ac/heating duct aluminum duct tape and wrapping strips around the exhaust hose triple thickness until I couldn't feel any difference between room temperature and the surface of the hose. I would think they would provide an insulated exhaust hose.
1794763
The hoses are used to vent the AC out the window. I'm not venting mine though. What good is a portable unit if it has to be by the window? I haven't had any problems by not venting it, so I don't plan on doing it in the future.
1513345
I've had this unit for over a year, and while the hose does get warm, it seems to cause no problems. The unit works very well for us.
279560
I don't use the hose drain feature, but ti is pretty obvious that there is a blockage... probably just general household dust debris blocking either the drian hole or the hose.
229310
I have installed 2 in the last few months. I plan on draining the tanks every year. I will remove the tank and flush outside since the tanks have no drain. While outside I plan on replacing the anode rod which is less than a $10.00 part. This will prevent the tank from rusting out. This is a little bit of work but for immediate hot water in the bathrooms it's well worth it. I also have the relief valve attached to the drain pipe just incase the valve opens. Pls let me know if you have any other questions
2198061
We've had our 2 heaters now for a year and I think they come out together. Keeping the air from getting dried out. Need to fill the water once a day.
1023179
I am not sure either. We ended up venting ours directly through the wall and running the drain directing out as well. When the drain tube was a bit curved up, it would shut down because it wasn't draining well. oh - we did have to reset the remote. it was stuck and not working. There is some way to re-set it. Maybe we took the batteries out and put them back in and then the remote seemed to work again. That's about all I know of this machine's quirks. Overall it does the job. Puts out cold air, but I wasn't sold on the dehumidifing. The room smelled awfully damp instead.
118291
We do have a window in the room where the warm air vents. From the outside of our house you really can't see the vent. Overall, I would not recommend this unit - it is big and clunky and difficult to drain the water from (which happens often) and for its large size it only cools the master bedroom and not even really the adjoining master bathroom.
1083643
I agree this is an issue. Sorry, I don't have the answer. Mine does drain but is much slower than when the disposer is running. It hasn't been enough to be an problem for me.
378991
read the instruction manual. there will be a section on this. i believe there's a "cap" that needs to be removed first. but it's likely you do not have the drain hose LOWER than the unit so it cannot flow correctly.
83091
Mary, when I first got my unit I had the same issue. But now it works much better once I removed a couple of the hoses. Instead of uses the full set of hose, I took two off. Try to remove one at a time until it performs better but make sure there's enough to reach the far side of the pool.
1571572
It does not have a drain on it like a typical water heater. So the only way to be able to winterized it, in my opinion, would be to disconnect the power and then disconnect the two hoses/pipes and turn the unit upside down to drain. In other words, you'd have to remove it to accomplish this.
155229
I live in Ohio where we have a good amount of humidity. I've had this unit for 2 summers and have never had to drain it.
1346675
I would make sure you have a vent on tank. I noticed on mine with a gravity feed it would drain very slow so I installed a breather. Worked great after that.