[Electronics-Talk] Accessible Portable Air Conditioners

[Tracy Carcione]

I have a Honeywell portable air conditioner.  I think it's either 5000 BTU
or 7500.  It has a touch panel on top, but the buttons are hard to feel.
However, it also has a remote with real buttons.  I used AIRA to find out
which button did what, then put one-letter braille labels on it so I
wouldn't forget.  Fan, air, and humidifier are all on the same button, but
fan turns off the compressor, so I know when I'm on fan, and I know where
fan is in the sequence, so I can get to the others from there.  I've also
used AIRA to look at the panel and tell me which icon is showing, when I've
gotten really confused, usually at the start of the hot season.
I really like the portable.  Much easier to deal with than the old window
unit.
Tracy


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Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2021 7:38 PM
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Usually, if you listen, you should be able to hear whether the compressor is

running, or only the fan.  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Peter via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2021 2:28 PM
To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
Cc: Peter
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Accessible Portable Air Conditioners

Good afternoon everyone,



This morning a maintenance worker came to work on our air conditioning
systems. He recharged the central unit with freon and cleaned the outside
component. It seems to have taken the edge off of the heat in our apartment.
Time will tell.



                He told me that the reason why the portable air conditioner
wasn't putting out cold air was due to the unit having been switched into
fan mode. This was most likely caused by one of us bumping the mode control
which is inaccessible to touch. I plan to have one of our caregivers look at
the unit tomorrow to see if we can mark that control some way so we can fix
it if it happens again until the new window unit for our master bedroom is
installed.



                Should we ever need to buy a portable air conditioner I'd
like to know of models that can be used independently by a blind person.
Hopefully someone has a smart unit that can be integrated with a home
automation platform like the window units we bought last week. All the best.



Peter Donahue





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