Do window air conditioners draw air in from outside?
Question:I have a small 5050 BTU AC window ac unit. The room i am cooling is really a small shed only 4'x10'. Is the ac unit pulling in some air from the outside or is it just recirculating the inside air?
Answers:
all window units just recirculate the air inside your room unless it has a vent that can manually opened or closed by a knob on your ac...if it has this it will be able to either pull air inside or push air outside depending on the way you set it...not all air conditioners have this feature...
Window units do not have a direct opening to the outside air.
They simply blow the inside air across a small coil to remove the heat from the air. The heat is transferred to the outside coil through freon to the outside coil where another fan blows across it and removes the heat to the outside air.
sorry jimmie is not correct. window units can indeed draw outside air...depends on if you have your vent open or not, but normallly the unit does draw it from the inside air
Some older window units do have a vent that you can open and allow outside air to introduced to the room, however I have never found it to be cost effective to run it like that. Most of the newer units do not have this feature anymore.
The answer above (Jimmie)however explains the way A/C's work, and that's about it
that size unit probably doesn't have the ability to pull outside air in. I think its mostly on the large a/c units that usually aren't taken out each season so you can use it like a window fan when it starts getting cooler out and the need for conditioning isn't need but still provides air flow. either way u would see a dampener pull lever that would control that flow. all else fails look your a/c up on web and find a owner's manual for more info.
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