Airconditioners Prices - Customer reviews - Frigidaire FAA065P7A 6,000 BTU MSII Air Conditioner with Electronic Controls

Manufacturer: Frigidaire

List Price: $199.99
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Name: Maria S. Blackburn
Location:
Date: 2008-05-31
Customer Rating: -

Summary: hard to install easy to use
Comment: air conditioner ws a little difficult to install; but easy to use. My daughter is sleeping so much better

Name: B
Location:
Date: 2009-06-30
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Good and Bad
Comment: Nice features, relatively compact, does the job. Delivery was horrible; the package was smashed up beyond belief. Good price/convenience of door delivery. Frigidaire mailings are somewhat annoying, spammy.

Name: Richard Kaszeta
Location: Grantham, NH USA
Date: 2008-07-01
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Decent efficient AC, but very loud without modifications
Comment: I bought one of these to replace an oversized 8000 btu/hr window unit that was almost a decade old.

What worked:

1. Much lighter and easier to install than most window ACs I've used.
2. Good cooling for the energy used.

What didn't:
1. This is not a quiet unit by any stretch.
2. As the other reviewers have mentioned, there's no drainage to the drip pan. This would probably be okay, but in mine the fan is mounted such that the tips of the fan can actually make contact with the water if the drip pan is full (and the unit is installed properly and level). This results in a constant "sloshing" sound when run on high humidity days. As a result, I ended up (carefully, you don't want to hit the coils!) drilling a small drainhole in the drip pan, carefully coating the hole edge with silicone to keep the exposed metal from rusting. The unit now runs with just fan noise.

Name: JB109
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2009-05-08
Customer Rating: -

Summary: No Drain!
Comment: I purchased this 6K BTU unit and a 12KBTU unit just like it about one month ago to go into my mothers house.
The units work very well as far as cooling capacity however the 6K BTU unit has NO DRAIN hole!
It has poured 10 inches of rain in TN over the past two weeks and the water pours into the unit through the vent holes on the top of the unit.
The pan then becomes full of water. This unit has one fan motor that turns the fan blades that push air across the condensor on the outside and a blower that pushes cooled air out into the room.
The blades on the fan that cools the condensor hits the water that is laying in the pan preventing it to spin properly.
Twice I have had to remove the unit and pour the water out. Its full again!
I dont want to drill a drain hole because I think it is designed to "sling" condensed water from the evaperator onto the hot condensor to aid in removing heat from it.
The goons in their R and D never thought about rain water getting in the unit I suppose.
Think Im going to go ahead and drill the hole and hope for the best.

Name: UFO6
Location: Los Angeles, CA USA
Date: 2009-05-08
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Quiet and Good Quality Overall, but Cooling is "Adequate" only.
Comment: I'm facing my second summer with this unit, and although it's been better than nothing and better than the clunker it replaced, I will have to replace it with something with significantly more power and better design.

The room I'm cooling is only 11' x 11', but this thing really struggles to stay ahead of the heat if the outside temperature gets anywhere above the mid-80s. I put up with the thing all last summer but...the temperature today in LA got into the mid-90s for the first time this spring and I'm just not going to deal with this limp cooling capacity another summer. 'An expense I didn't need at this point, plus the hassles of product comparison, pickup/delivery and installation. *And* I'll have to decide what to do with the old one.

Pros: Contrary to a couple of other reviews here this unit has a perfectly acceptable noise level. If your standard is complete silence, well yes, you're going to be disappointed with everything but an open window. There is no such thing as a "whisper-quiet" window air conditioner, sorry to say. This has a perfectly typical noise level for this size and type of AC unit - except for its insufferable beeping, which I'll get to in a minute.

The remote control is simple, functional, and something to appreciate deeply when you need to change something in the middle of the night. Now I wouldn't buy an AC unit without one, and this one works well, duplicating almost all of the controls on the unit's front panel.

The unit as a whole is of typical Frigidaire quality, which is to say very good, but with some significant caveats...

Cons: The air vent design is utterly worthless for any kind of directional capability, and that's maddening because air vent design is bonehead-simple, basically a matter of deciding on what shape to mold a little plastic(!) For all practical purposes this unit just blows air straight out the front. The up/down louvers are only a quarter-inch deep, which means they barely perturb the airflow, much less direct it anywhere, and in any case can only be moved a total of about *10 degrees* from fully up to fully down, I kid you not. And those disc-shaped side-to-side things? They're an annoying joke at best. They do absolutely *nothing* to alter airflow direction. I can't understand how those things got past the design review process. Someone at Frigidaire needs to completely rethink, or maybe just... think... the air vent design for this product line. I've worked around the nonexistent louver problem by building my own, cobbled together out of one of those furnace register deflector things made out of clear plastic and attached with clear duct tape, at a total cost of about $30 additional from the local Home Despot. Should this be necessary?

The dust filter too is incredibly flimsy - just a plastic mesh screen with a very flimsy plastic frame that sets loosely inside the flip-out front panel. The "Check Filter" light is on all the time, and I've had to clean the radiator fins with a toothbrush every couple of months because of the stuff that gets through the screen.

Another needless design flaw is that the unit beeps - loudly - every time you turn the unit on or off, and every time you change any setting. That's: Every. Single. Change. If you change the digital temperature or fan speed setting, it will beep once *for every single increment*: 65-BEEEEP!-64-BEEEEP!-63-BEEEEP!-62-BEEEEP!-61-BEEEEP! Is this really necessary? It reminds me of those insufferable beepers that every truck in America now is required by overweening law to have for the reverse gear. Unnecessary and deeply annoying, particularly if you're changing something or turning it off or on in the middle of the night. The neighbors just love it too.

Where the rubber really hits the road for an air conditioner, obviously, is the cooling ability, and this one can be classified as barely adequate at best. I have a wall-wart timer programmed to turn the unit on a couple hours before I normally get home from work, and though the room is typically cooler than the outside, it's only just, and you can almost sense this unit panting with exhaustion under the strain. In addition, the condensor kicks out (i.e., the unit goes into "Fan only" mode,) frequently and seemingly at random, even when the room is still lukewarm to stuffy. I assume the coils are freezing up with the effort or something.

Bottom line: this unit is just not up to the task of cooling a smallish (11' x 11') room on a 90-degree day, and at 6,000 BTUs that task should not be a problem. Or am I expecting too much here?

So no more messing around - if I can find a 10k BTU unit that fits, that's what will replace it. Again, 'not an expense I really want to make just now, but there's no other option but sweating, tossing and turning. What price sleep, and what price job performance the next day? Frigidaire should be better than this.

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