hello I am Wanderer001 and this is my review of the Friedrich
probably saying that wrong cool K u HL q kc 8 0 8 a 1 0 a and I do understand
that that is a bit of a mouthful so what I will say is this is a Friedrich air
conditioning unit that is labeled as being either a in wall as I have here or
window unit now I picked this particular unit because well one moved new house
had Friedrich air conditioning units and I wanted something that fit in the
cutout I didn't want to have to make the cutout any bigger so I went to the store
found out well they air conditioner people because I don't want to keep
saying that name wrong have not really changed the size of their air
conditioning units since inception so this unit would fit in here now I was
given two options there was this unit and another unit which is billed as
cheaper not made in America this is made in America and the cheaper unit was same
company but built elsewhere however the reason I went with this particular model
instead of that model is the other model in question the vent was over here on
the side and could oscillate like this but because these are in wall under
window and the one in my master bedroom because I have to I have this one in a
secondary bedroom and the master I needed it to be able to get up and over
my bed so I needed the vents up here not on the side sadly that also costs $300
more this unit cost $300 more than that cheaper unit so if you were going out
hunting and you can live with that side vent and not made America save $300 if
not and you're in the same boat that I am where you want the vents up here and
you need something that fits then we're going to talk about this model because
while it was more expensive it has more goodies in my opinion and is a good air
conditioner now this is the 115 volt model this particular model can come in
either eight thousand BTUs 12,000 BTUs and up to I believe 24 thousand BTUs for
this I ended up going with the 8,000 BTU models because again the air conditioner
that was referencing before was a earlier model like 20 plus years older
than this model and it was only a 5000 BTU unit and it was not cutting it
I mean it was it was bad my it was just it was bad
so the first actually the first thing that we did when we moved here was get
new air conditioners even though the garage door opener video over there says
I did otherwise this was the first thing we did because we needed this and let me
tell you eight thousand and eight thousand so sixteen thousand BTUs on my
second floor awesome helps cool greatly now as we talked about this particular
unit is an 8000 BTU unit it has a single vent across the top here with adjuster
so you cannot adjust these out here the fins can move from left to right and up
and down but using this only now this unit does come with its own wall sleeve
so if the wall sleeve that you have previously is a little banged up they
will have a replacement wall sleeve here and you'll be good to go now it also
does come with a remote we'll try and bring that into focus there we go which
controls power mode fan speed and then up and down now it is just kind of a
rubberized texture it does come with batteries the batteries are junk and
this one died within a week the one weird thing I will say with Friedrich is
the display over there but we'll get to that in a minute because one if you've
never seen it an air conditioner like this there's no grill up front so one
they can be stylized so you can pick a color to your choosing which includes
the top and the front obviously this is the basic white however you might be
asking well where's the vent how does air get in here well there's actually
side vents and this front cover pops down so in here one my video now looks
horribly crooked apparently and two this is how you access your filters now this
particular model comes with an extra charcoal filter here that's supposed to
add extra Dustin filtering protections this pops
off and then there's your normal filter behind that both can be accessed just by
lifting up on a little tab here and then pulled off this one you can vacuum the
other one says you should wash it but just like my other one you vacuumed it
you're good to go you put it back in now the reason that I pop this down aside
from just talking about the filters is that there are extra buttons in here a
menu and a back button this is where things get a little weird for me because
one when you're trying to navigate certain menus you actually need these
buttons as opposed to up here the buttons up here are kind of limited in
what they can do and in my opinion a little too sensitive so make sure you
get new remote batteries and use the remote instead now while there is no
Energy Star stamp on this it is supposed to be Energy Star approved as proven by
this sheet that comes with it saying that it is Energy Star and you know
sixty-five dollars a year to run also if you're in Canada there's your twelve
point Oh qualification so this is Energy Star and just to test it I ran some
tests obviously I've just plugged in and idling this unit will use point oh eight
watts of power if you have the fan in the low setting it uses three point five
if you have it in the high setting it uses ninety two point two now for the
compressor using air conditioning obviously that's why you get this not
just for a fan so fan in high and compressor running it is seven hundred
and eleven watts so yes that is a lot but it is actually less than my eight
thousand BTU unit comfort air which I had in my condo so same BTU same output
less power now before I actually start talking about the air conditioner itself
and the dial over there I'm gonna talk about some of the buzz words that came
with this air conditioner never having had one like this there was a lot that I
was learning because they have like pretty much talking points where it's
quiet master technology so that includes sound blocking installation steel inner
walls enclosed fan motor solid steel blower wheelhouse
and more so what I can say about that aside from all of the sell you the air
conditioner talk it is actually a fairly quiet air conditioner it does not rattle
my wall like my comfort air did the compressor with the fan on high
I really don't hear the air compressor to turn on the air conditioning portion
on and off I don't really hear that and with my old air conditioner you knew
when the air conditioner was kicking on because you heard it and you felt it so
whether all of the actual buzzy talking points are worth it I can't say for sure
but I can say it actually is a fairly quiet air conditioner for the BTU output
and its size so buzzwords aside reasonably quiet for me I don't need an
absolutely quiet air conditioning in fact I prefer it to be a little noisier
because I like to use it as a sound generator so just keep that in mind
you'll probably hear a little bit of the air conditioner I'm gonna try to get it
out of the way when we zoom in over here to show you the display so why don't we
zoom in now and talk about the actual functionality of the air conditioner all
right so hopefully the air blowing I'm actually gonna turn the vents so that
they hopefully don't blow on the mic while we're doing this so you've got
your power button here which has to be tapped twice on both the unit and the
remote itself in order to turn it on now tapping once will bring up the display
if the air conditioner was on there'd be information here now there is an LED
display here that will turn itself off after twenty seconds which I greatly
appreciate because I don't have to cover it with a sock in the middle of the
night like I did with my other air conditioner now we're not gonna wait the
20 seconds for that to power down there you go I will say the buttons on the
machine on the unit itself are rather mushy I don't particularly care for them
so that's why I said use the remote so we're gonna double tap to start and here
we go you will notice that it is on high fan
right now we can change the speed
and that's now turning to low now when you adjust the fan speed it's rather odd
it why it's not like Motors down and the motors back up I've never had an
air-conditioner do that before so you have fan here on or auto auto means it
will pick the correct speed for you and then you have cool or fan only and then
here you have temperature so right now it's trying to cool to 72 I want it to
cool lower than that and you can see I'm really kind of having to push that to
have it actually adjust anything now that's just an IR blaster for the remote
that comes with it but you will notice now well there's extra functionality
that this does you have to use those sub menus in that front panel to get to it
so let me open it up again and show you some of those options all right so we've
got the extra options open down here so first being menu this is limit what
limit will do is you can choose the lowest and the highest that you want
this to be and I do realize that that light on back there is kind of blocking
it that's 72 degrees and 66 being low so you can have it as high as 72 60 is the
lowest that it can go click the menu button again down here again menu so
we're back to limit using the directional buttons here we can navigate
to time pressing menu button will allow you to set the time as well as what
temperature you want it at that time so you can actually go through and program
this for several different times of day to kind of give yourself like an energy
star ish feel now you'll see since I set a time it tried to go back to what I had
it set for which is why now it says override we're gonna go back to time so
from time we are now going to move on to Fahrenheit or Celsius clicking menu will
allow you to switch between the two lock is if you wanted to lock this to prevent
anybody else from making changes to it so dad's out there who locked down their
thermostats this is how you lock down your air-conditioner
connect I have mixed feelings about connect in that I was hoping that this
is a Wi-Fi unit believe it or not this unit has Wi-Fi without having to have an
extra peripheral however in my attempts to connect this unit to Wi-Fi I spent 45
minutes trying to connect this to Wi-Fi now I will say I was able to actually
connect this to my Wi-Fi network I used the fing app over here which shows that
it was on my network however connecting it to the Friedrich
connect system was impossible i tried on my computer i tried on my cell phone i
tried this unit I tried the unit in my master bedroom I tried using a Wi-Fi
signal booster nothing I did would allow this unit to connect to Wi-Fi so
thankfully I was because over here there is an icon for Wi-Fi you can't see it
but when it was connected to the Wi-Fi it showed up there I tricked the unit
into jumping off my Wi-Fi cuz I don't want it sitting on my Wi-Fi if I can't
do anything with it by entering the wrong SSID and password so maybe by the
time you're looking at this they will have fix that issue but if they haven't
don't get this unit for Wi-Fi it's a good unit but the Wi-Fi is garbage
moving on from connect we have Diagnostics so you can run a diagnostic
if you ever run into a problem because this is pretty much a computer with an
air conditioner attached that's how I'm gonna describe it and then coming back
we come back to limit so those are all the those are all the submenus that you
can get to from the control panel here so all in all would I recommend the
Friedrich q kc 8:08 blah blah blah blah blah yes it is a good air conditioner
especially if you need one that fits in a specific size hole and it already
exists you might as well use something that fits and has good output which the
price was a little cheaper I wish that it actually did connect to Wi-Fi because
I would love to not have to use that submenu because that submenu is an
to navigate just keep that in mind use the remote that comes with it avoid the
submenu at all costs so just turn it on turn it off there doesn't seem to be any
energy saver mode which concerns me but normally I would just keep these on
anyway meaning so energy saver you turn that on
when it reaches a temperature it turns you in and off completely
the closest you can get is Auto which is changing the speed of the fans and
that's it it will remain on so keep that in mind when looking at this particular
unit and again that unit that had the side mounted there three hundred dollars
cheaper not a bad unit wish it was cheaper but for what you get I like it
and let me tell you it has been a godsend because as of today I'm of
course filming this in 90 degree weather on the second floor and can't have this
on for the entire time because you won't be able to hear me but recommend do your
shopping shop around we didn't shop around we probably could have gotten it
a little cheaper I have been Wanderer001 if you have any questions
or comments please leave them in the area below and as always thanks for
watching