tightgroup tiger
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Be careful of the free standing air conditioners that are sold for in homes. While they will cool the air, most of them cannot take water out of the air like the window units.
Even at 70 degrees the air will be clammy and you won't feel comfortable.
We put them in our laboratory at work and after we bought them, even though they are vented outside we found out that they will either work as a dehumidifier, or an air conditioner, but they will not do both.
There are two kinds of air conditioners, the kind that will cool the air and take a little water out, (the floor models) or the ones that will cool the air and condense a lot of water out so the air is comfortable even if it isn't as cool as you would like it to be (the window units). The floor models use the condensed water to blow on the coils to help the condenser get rid of its heat and condense the freon back into a liquid, so it doesn't go into hot gas fault, so it's moisture ends up going back into the room your trying to cool.
The floor models are expensive compaired to the window units also and the window units are readily available.
Do what you want but I would frame a hole in the garage wall and put in a window unit so I could use the garage when I wanted to, for anything. Just be careful with those floor models, most of them are not what you think they are.
Even at 70 degrees the air will be clammy and you won't feel comfortable.
We put them in our laboratory at work and after we bought them, even though they are vented outside we found out that they will either work as a dehumidifier, or an air conditioner, but they will not do both.
There are two kinds of air conditioners, the kind that will cool the air and take a little water out, (the floor models) or the ones that will cool the air and condense a lot of water out so the air is comfortable even if it isn't as cool as you would like it to be (the window units). The floor models use the condensed water to blow on the coils to help the condenser get rid of its heat and condense the freon back into a liquid, so it doesn't go into hot gas fault, so it's moisture ends up going back into the room your trying to cool.
The floor models are expensive compaired to the window units also and the window units are readily available.
Do what you want but I would frame a hole in the garage wall and put in a window unit so I could use the garage when I wanted to, for anything. Just be careful with those floor models, most of them are not what you think they are.