If you are looking for a super quiet air conditioner for the extra noise sensitive, particularly at night time, then this air cooler should be your choice. The PAC S1000 air conditioner will cool a large room without cluttering your space, is very small and light and can be wall mounted if required. Conveniently, the air conditioner is operated via remote control, and its intelligent electronic controls monitor the room temperature and automatically select the ideal function to maintain the desired room temperature. The S1000 split air cooler can also be operated as a fan only, for air circulation when desired, or as a dehumidifier only, removing up to an impressive 35 litres per day.The ever popular PAC S1000 is the neatest split system air conditioner from Delonghi, offering up to the minute styling and technology. Split air conditioning units achieve a high cooling rate by venting the air through the separate condenser unit which is located outside, so the air is circulated more efficiently and cools more effectively. It offers 10000 btu/h, has an advanced auto mode to maximise its cooling efficiency and comes with all accessories for quick and simple installation.

NEW EUROPEAN STANDARD EN14511 FOR MEASURING COOLING CAPACITY: Please note, that other websites may show higher BTU ratings for this appliance. This is because there are 2 methods for measuring BTU's. We have chosen to publish the European Standard BTU ratings, as this gives a fairer comparison between units from different countries and allows you to assess your BTU requirements more accurately.

Download the Delonghi S1000 instruction manual.

Air Conditioners: Air Conditioners: With the higher temperatures that we are experiencing in the last few years, air conditioning is becoming a summertime essential, not just for holidays abroad. The range of portable air conditioners that we have selected are the best performing and most reliable of the products currently available. They offer an easy, quick and affordable way to create a cool and refreshing environment for the home, office and commercial premises. Look out for extra useful features such as high performance filters, quiet night time mode or separate dehumidifying function; they can help your air quality in more ways than one.

All of these products are highly efficient, economical to run, elegantly designed and quiet in use. The single unit portables require no installation, you simply plug them in and you are ready to go. They offer the flexibility to be moved from room to room, so that you can cool where you want, when you want.. They are also practical when a fixed unit is not possible to install.

We advise our customers if they need to buy a portable air conditioner, to buy the maximum BTU rated machine available, and to buy the highest quality they can afford for superior cooling performance.

Delonghi: The De'Longhi Group operates in two areas that are linked by the concept of well-being: air treatment products, which bring fresh, pure, and dehumidified air into the home and, and products for the home to make domestic chores more easy.

A recognised leader for performance, efficiency and high quality, the philosophy of the De'Longhi Group is to become a creator of ideas through research into increasingly sophisticated technologies, care in the design, and respect for the highest qualitative standards.

Founded one hundred years ago as a craftsman's workshop, it became a small company in the 1950's. Now it is a global company at the forefront of the air conditioning market.

All De'Longhi mobile air conditioners use a unique environmentally friendly refrigerant that is completely CFC/HCFC and HFC free.

An Introduction to Air Conditioning

Air conditioning units are designed to cool your room to your preferred temperature. As well as controlling the temperature, many units also allow you to control the humidity and some have special filters to remove small particles, such as allergens, from the air, so are of particular benefit for those with allergies or asthma.

Portable air conditioners are the easiest and quickest way to improve your comfort in the summer months, having all the advantages of fixed systems but ready to use immediately. You just plug the unit in and set your perfect temperature. They are ideal when different rooms need to be cooled at different times as the units can be moved from room to room. They work by simply taking hot damp air from a room and expelling it to the outside while the air inside the room is chilled and re-circulated.

Portable Air Conditioners are ideal for someone who:

• Suffers from hay fever so is unable to open windows in summer for fresh air
• Has central air conditioning which is unable to cope in very hot days, so needs extra cooling.
• Wants to avoid the trouble and expense of fully installed air conditioning.
• Has a room or office that gets particularly hot, for example, upper floor rooms.
• Wants the flexibility to move the unit from room to room to cool different areas at different times of the day.

There are two types of portable air conditioners available, single units and split systems.

Single Units:
These are the easiest of units for immediate use. The appliance is simply plugged in, and the flexible hose, which is used to expel the hot and damp air, must be vented through an outside wall or window. A flattened adaptor at the end of the hose can be fitted through a partially opened window or door, or the hose can be fed through a hole, using the socket provided with the unit. You can have either air cooled units or air and water cooled units. Air plus water-cooled units give you a larger cooling power but you do need regular refilling of the water tank and the unit will require descaling in hard water areas.

Split System - Portable Air Conditioners:
For larger or hotter rooms split portable air conditioners are normally required. This consists of 2 units, a controlling unit inside the room and a condenser unit outside connected by refrigerant lines, which can be detached from the outside unit for installation. The indoor unit draws in the hot air to the outside condenser unit, and expels cold air into the room. The external condenser box can be placed either on the ground outside or hooked by straps over the edge of a window frame. S plit systems are usually quieter, as the noisier part is outside.

How it works
Air conditioners come in various sizes, cooling capacities and prices: portable air conditioners, split portables, window air conditioners, condensing units on the roofs, and fully integrated air conditioning systems, but they all work on the same principle. An air conditioner removes hot (and damp) air from indoors and transfers it outdoors via a hose. The tube, similar to a tumble dryer hose (around 1m long), has to be vented to the outside ideally through a small venting hole made in the wall or window. For a quick fix (temporary solution) you can, with the use of a flattened oval adaptor supplied, put the hose out of a partially opened window or door. In the more powerful split system mobile type, the heat, along with excess humidity is discharged by the external (condenser) unit.

The hot air from the room is drawn by a fan into the air conditioner, and passes over an evaporator coil, which contains refrigerant. The refrigerant is pushed around the air conditioner by the compressor. The refrigerant is very cold and absorbs the excess heat from the air. This cooled air is pushed out through the front air vents back into the room. The absorbed heat in the refrigerant is transferred to a condensing (hot) coil, which causes the refrigerant to release its heat. The heat is then discharged from the room, either to a second section (split units) or directly into the outside air (mono-block unit). The cycle then starts again, to keep the room at the required temperature. Some air conditioners automatically remove the excess moisture from the air and evaporate it away with the excess heat. This also improved the overall level of comfort, reducing that sticky high humidity. With this type, there is no drip tray or tank to empty, so the only maintenance required is to clean the filter to maintain the air conditioner's efficiency. Other units utilise the moisture that has condensed and uses it to boost the cooling efficiency, in a similar way to water cooling, this is called condensate cooling.

What is a BTU?

BTU stands for the British Thermal Unit. Is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 0.45g of water by 0.56 degrees Celsius. So in heating terms, 1BTU = 1055 joules. To give you an idea of what this means, t he typical heat gain added to a room by a person at rest is about 230 BTUs per hour. So, a 10,000 BTU window air conditioner is capable of removing 10,000 BTUs of heat per hour. The higher the BTU, the easier and faster it is to cool a room.

What does EER stand for?

Energy Efficiency Rating or EER is measured as its BTU rating over its wattage. For example, if a 10,000-BTU air conditioner consumes 1,200 watts, its EER is 8.3 (10,000 BTU/1,200 watts). A higher EER rating is preferable, but is normally found in more expensive units. So the more energy efficient the unit, the cheaper the long term running costs, so they can work out better in the long term.

First you will need to work out your rough BTU requirement for your room size. Room sizes for the units are calculated on the basis that 40 watts is needed to cool 1 cubic metre (4Btu/h per cubic foot). Here’s how:

1. Multiply length x width x height of the room to be cooled. This = the rooms cubic capacity.
2. If working in feet: Multiply cubic feet x 4. This =Btu/h.
3. If working in metres: Multiply cubic metres x 40. This = the number of watts required.
4. Select which model in the range is closest in cooling capacity to your requirements.

For example, if working in feet and BTU’s:

Room size of 12 x 15 x 10 feet =1800 cubic feet

Multiply by 4 = 7200

Therefore an air conditioner with 7200 btu/h or greater cooling capacity would be required.

Once you have done this you need to consider the following:

How many people are in the room. Each person will generate about 2000 BTU worth of heat. You will need to add about 600 BTU’s for each additional person using the room over 2 people.

• How many electrical goods such as computers are in the room
• How many windows are there, particularly facing the sun. You will need to add about 10% extra BTU’s for a sunny location.
• How hot is the climate where you live.
• Do you need it in the day, when it is hot, or at night time.
• Is the room on an upper storey floor, hot air travels up, so you will need to add about 10% extra BTU’s for this too.
• Is the room to be cooled a kitchen; you will need to add about 4000BTU’s for this.

All these factors will add more heat to the room, so a more powerful unit will be needed. If you buy a unit that is not powerful enough for your room, then it will not be able to cope on the hot days when you really need it. It will improve the air, but it will be acting as a comfort cooler, or spot cooler, taking heat out of the room but not actually reducing temperatures. To cool the room properly you may have to consider a second unit.

As a rough guideline,

• 5,000 to 6,000 Btu/hr. models cool rooms 100 to 300 square feet;
• 7,000 to 8,200 BTU should be able to cool rooms of 250 to 550 square feet.
• 9,800 to 12,500 BTU should be able to cool rooms from 350 - 950 square feet.

Maintenance: Clean it periodically. With any model, clean the filter as needed. Where possible, hose off the back of the unit if debris has clogged cooling coils.

Venting/exhaust: The truly portable or monoblock air conditioner has to get rid of the condensation created by cooling humid air and also has to vent out the heat. Some units have a drip tray or tank/bucket that the condensate runs in to and this has to be emptied fairly regularly, but many vent out the hot air and evaporate the condensed water through an exhaust hose. Alternatively, other units have a drainpipe, which can be drained through a nearby window or hole in the wall. If you don’t want to be emptying a bucket, check the specifications of the air conditioner unit that you are interested in before purchasing.

Running Costs: Most of the single units input power is less than 1000w (1kw) per hour. Therefore the average cost to run on full power would be about 5p/6p per hour. Split systems have inputs of around 1.3kW/hr, so would cost about 8p per hour to run on full power.

Location. Distance from vent location: Often we are asked if the hose can be extended to reach to a window or opening that is further from the unit than the hose will reach to. We would not recommend that you extend the hose provided in the single air conditioners, but if you have no other option it is important to vent into a much larger diameter vent pipe. If the air conditioners fan cannot expel heat fast enough, i.e. there is a back pressure or constriction to the air flow the unit will not work and could even be damaged.

Wherever possible avoid extending the hose length, so site the mobile next to an outside wall or window.

If you have difficulty in venting the hose to the outside you may find that you can vent into a room where the temperature doesn’t matter, for example, from an office to a warehouse.

On split systems the refrigerant lines cannot be extended.

Cooling ability: There are limits to how cold the room temperature can be made. When operating in a suitably sized room, most air conditioners will cool to around 21c. Mobile air conditioners are designed for peoples comfort. The ideal summer temperature for most people is around 21- 24c.

Troubleshooting: If the unit stops working:

• Check that the protection switch has not cut in, and that the plug fuse is rated at 13amp.
• Check that there is no condensation, or blockage, to either the exhaust hose or refrigerant lines.
• Drain any condensate that may have built up in particularly humid conditions.