GE Window Air Conditioner Unit, 5,000 BTU for Small Rooms up to 150 sq ft. with Manual Adjustable Fan and Cooling Settings, Perfect for Small Bedroom or Living Room, Easy…

4 reviews for GE Window Air Conditioner Unit, 5,000 BTU for Small Rooms up to 150 sq ft. with Manual Adjustable Fan and Cooling Settings, Perfect for Small Bedroom or Living Room, Easy…

1. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Destiny – August 13, 2024

   This ac was bought for the purpose of cooling my room enough that I can be in there and sleep in there without it feeling suffocating and it did just that. My room and hallway are so much cooler now and it’s bearable. Granted it not freezing it still is so much better than it was. I’m currently in the midst of a heatwave and this air conditioner helped immensely. I currently have it set to cool on high and it’s working well. It is a bit noisy but it’s so much better than the ac I had. My old ac was a lot bigger and couldn’t be put upstairs it was also so much louder. But my old ac was a lot colder. Even though the old ac was colder it didn’t help much because upstairs would still be hot as heat rises. This ac was also a lot cheaper than the one I gave away and this one has a remote. It also is more appealing to look at compared to the old one. It works well but don’t go into it expecting extremely cold ac. It does get really cold but it takes time. It took about 30-45 minutes to properly cool my room which is fairly small. I am excited to test out the modes and see how well it does shutting off when the room reaches the proper temperature. I didn’t just buy the ac for me but for my animals too. I work a lot and I want to make sure they are okay. I will update my review in about a month and see how well it does going into the hottest months. The lowest the ac will go is 64 so do keep that in mind.

2. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Homer M – August 14, 2024

   Trying to review 6000 btu unit and Amazon keeps redirecting me to the older 5000BTU unit I bought previously to edit it. Why? they are not the same? I bought the “used/return” version of the 6000 btu electronic control unit for $70 off the new price. One star to Amazon for sending me an “acceptable” unit and it’s not acceptable. Shipped it in a plain box with no packing so arrived with dents. Also came with no intallation kit, no remote or instructions. Not acceptable guys. Since I needed an air conditioner and since I didn’t feel like hauling it back to UPS and since I don’t like the fan fold side extensions, I kept it though I wish now I had sent it back and made them eat the freight both ways. As for the unit itself it”s pretty good. Keeps the bedroom at 68 degrees and the rest of the 1400sf house at 75 to 76 degrees. Runs at around 505 to 514 watts putting out 42 to 48 degree air. Dislikes: the ECO mode shuts off the unit when it reaches 68 degree set point and then doesn’t restart even though the temp gets above 73 or higher. Starts immediately when switched to Cool mode. On low speed the fan is sort of loud and high pitched like its running on high when it’s not. I would probably buy it again at the discounted price.
   As for the 5100 btu model– I bought it to put in our bedroom as my girlfriend likes it 70 degrees while I am comfortable in 78 degrees. It’s too small for the job. I have to shut the bedroom door to keep it at 70 degrees which means the central unit still comes on to keep the rest of the house at 76. I bought a “used” unit for $117. It appears to have come in original box unopened, but there was a hole punched in one side of the box and the rear coil had a flattened area on the fins about 1″ x 4″. I straighted the fins with a pocket knife (never had much luck with fin combs) and installed the unit with no problems. The unit runs at 390 to 460 watts which is less than previous similar units which usually run at 460 and up. It runs very quietly on low. The main beef with this one is the outlet vent doesn’t have up and down vane adjustment–just side to side. Also, the new 6000 btu unit seems to put out a lot more cold air for another 60 watts or so I would probable go the the 6000btu minimum in the future. I may swap the units out to see if the smaller unit will do better in the smaller bedroom/house.

3. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Destiny – August 26, 2024

   This is a bare-bones small window-mount air conditioner unit. Not fancy, but it works reasonably well. At 6000 BTU, it is rated for rooms around 200 to 250 ft.². I have mine in an 11 x 18‘ room (200 ft.²), and it will cool that room to a comfortable temperature within about an hour, and keep it there.

   Operation is very simple: you can use the remote or front panel buttons to set a target temperature (which is not entirely accurate because the room tends to be cooler right near the AC, but you can adjust the temp up or down until the room finally stabilizes at a point you’re comfortable with, regardless of the number on the display). It will remember the temp setting after you turn it off, and retain that setting the next time you turn it on. There is a “Delay“ button which allows you to input a number of hours (push “Delay,” then use the “+” and “-“ buttons to set the number of hours on the display). If the unit is off when you set the delay, it will stay off for that length of time and then turn on automatically, so you can have it go on, say, one or two hours before you expect to come home from work, and get the room cool before you get back; if the unit is on, setting the delay will turn it off after the set number of hours, so you can leave it running to keep the room cool for that length of time and then turn itself off (useful in a bedroom at night). It has settings to adjust the fan speed, to set it for fan only (no cooling), and “Eco” (energy saving). The remote is simple and kind of chintzy feeling, but controls all the functions. All these basic functions do just what you expect.

   The unit has louvers to direct the air output left or right, but not up or down. They don’t work very well; the air just mostly blows straight out.

   My major issue is with the window mount system. Like most similar units, this is designed to fit in the bottom half of a double-hung window, with the sliding window frame pulled down on top of it to hold it in place. It is very important that it be mounted correctly and securely, so it doesn’t fall out of the window. The problem is that the mounting instructions seem to assume a particular kind of window frame design, but there are many different kinds of double-hung windows with different architecture. There is a top bar that you attach to the top of the AC case with some supplied screws. After you balance the unit on the bottom edge of the window frame, you pull the sliding window section down on top of it so that the top bar is inside the lower edge of the sliding window frame. You then have to securely fix that frame so it never opens again; if anybody raises that window frame, or it just gets loose somehow, there will be nothing holding the AC in place and it will fall straight out. They supply a couple of flimsy metal brackets that you are expected to screw into the fixed window frame above the top edge of the sliding portion, to block it from sliding up after you have mounted the AC. This assumes that there is a flat surface that you can easily drill into along the edge of the window frame. Not all window frames are like that. There is also a flimsy metal clip supposed to be mounted to a screw at the bottom of the AC case, and screwed down into the bottom of the window frame for a little bit of extra security. That assumes that your window frame is designed so that there is a flat surface right below the case of the AC when you balance it on the bottom edge of the open frame; again, not all windows are like that. In my case, I couldn’t mount any of those little clips the way they were intended, and there is no other way to mount the unit with the supplied hardware. I finally drilled right through the top bar, in front of the sliding window frame where it comes down to hold the AC in place, and drove a sheet metal screw through the bar and into the window frame, locking the two securely together; then I cut two wooden dowels to exact length and fixed them in place between the top of the sliding window section and the very top of the fixed frame so they prevent the sliding section from being pushed up. Now the sliding window is blocked from going above the top bar on the AC, and it is screwed into the top bar where it touches it down below, so nothing is going to shift, but I had to do all that myself. The mounting hardware supplied with the unit is very light, and doesn’t match my window architecture at all. Be prepared to figure out a solution for yourself if necessary.

   All in all, this is a typical small window AC unit that does what it is expected to do. It is not fancy, and you may have to adjust or replace the mounting hardware to get it to fit in your window, but once it’s installed it works OK.

   IMPORTANT: Mounting an AC unit like this solely on the edge of the window frame is possible but not the best solution. It is safer and more secure to mount a bracket sticking out from the window frame to provide a solid surface for the AC unit to rest on and support the weight, then secure the window frame as described above to keep the unit from moving, but without putting the full weight of the unit on the window frame. There are many AC mounting brackets designed specifically for this purpose. My ridiculous window architecture did not allow the use of such a bracket, so I had to just lock the window frame down on it and hope for the best. I would strongly recommend adding a mounting bracket if you can fit one on your window.

4. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Kevin T. Keith – August 26, 2024

   Bought this for a friend of mine that doesn’t have a swamp cooler or central air. We live in Las Vegas so temperatures get pretty hot during the summer she lives in a side by side trailer home and this defiantly helped her summer off 2024. I do plan on getting a couple more. No remote control though good quality. Doesn’t weight to much and can take the heat.