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I have theory that America’s satellite commuter cities will turn into ghost towns when their lack of convenient mass transportation collides with full onset of Peak Oil.

I predict you’ll be knocked over at the magnitude of this, when it happens.

I acknowledge it could easily take 10 years, but could happen as sooner, say in five to seven years. I do NOT believe it will happen in the next five years (due to deflationary forces in effect through major portion of that five-year period)

However, long-term think of gas costing not $5 or $10, but $20 or more per gallon, measured in today’s dollars – but against a backdrop of a much lower American standard of living.

Average Americans will not be able to afford to drive gasoline cars

Cities like Temecula will end up with vast areas of abandoned homes.

I have a lot of theories, blah blah blah. Here’s another theory: it (economic depression) will end with riots in the streets of most large cities, and huge increases in crime, frightening increases particularly in cities like San Diego (proximity to Mexico, large poor illegal immigrant population). This has implications for housing prices.

It implies there IS a specialty sector of housing that will appreciate significantly more than most: homes buried deep inside the (presently) safest areas plus residing within WALLED zones that you can only enter at single gate manned with armed security guards.

You may think there are too few such areas currently available with all those features; however, you should search for sites that can be quickly UPGRADED to have these features. For example, wealthier subdivisions that are already completely surrounded now by some form of perimeter fence and only have one or two entrances. Ten years on and those residents will have demanded that it be converted to say a 10 ft tall concrete wall (maybe with barbed wire on top), and the subdivision will have one gated entrance with armed guards where your ID has to match to resident name list to gain entry.

The dynamic is that the rich will get scared. Then they will flock to highly secure housing areas. That will drive the price way up.

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I have theory that America’s satellite commuter cities will turn into ghost towns when their lack of convenient mass transportation collides with full onset of Peak Oil.

I predict you’ll be knocked over at the magnitude of this, when it happens.

I acknowledge it could easily take 10 years, but could happen as sooner, say in five to seven years. I do NOT believe it will happen in the next five years (due to deflationary forces in effect through major portion of that five-year period)

However, long-term think of gas costing not $5 or $10, but $20 or more per gallon, measured in today’s dollars – but against a backdrop of a much lower American standard of living.

Average Americans will not be able to afford to drive gasoline cars

Cities like Temecula will end up with vast areas of abandoned homes.

I have a lot of theories, blah blah blah. Here’s another theory: it (economic depression) will end with riots in the streets of most large cities, and huge increases in crime, frightening increases particularly in cities like San Diego (proximity to Mexico, large poor illegal immigrant population). This has implications for housing prices.

It implies there IS a specialty sector of housing that will appreciate significantly more than most: homes buried deep inside the (presently) safest areas plus residing within WALLED zones that you can only enter at single gate manned with armed security guards.

You may think there are too few such areas currently available with all those features; however, you should search for sites that can be quickly UPGRADED to have these features. For example, wealthier subdivisions that are already completely surrounded now by some form of perimeter fence and only have one or two entrances. Ten years on and those residents will have demanded that it be converted to say a 10 ft tall concrete wall (maybe with barbed wire on top), and the subdivision will have one gated entrance with armed guards where your ID has to match to resident name list to gain entry.

The dynamic is that the rich will get scared. Then they will flock to highly secure housing areas. That will drive the price way up.

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I have theory that America’s satellite commuter cities will turn into ghost towns when their lack of convenient mass transportation collides with full onset of Peak Oil.

I predict you’ll be knocked over at the magnitude of this, when it happens.

I acknowledge it could easily take 10 years, but could happen as sooner, say in five to seven years. I do NOT believe it will happen in the next five years (due to deflationary forces in effect through major portion of that five-year period)

However, long-term think of gas costing not $5 or $10, but $20 or more per gallon, measured in today’s dollars – but against a backdrop of a much lower American standard of living.

Average Americans will not be able to afford to drive gasoline cars

Cities like Temecula will end up with vast areas of abandoned homes.

I have a lot of theories, blah blah blah. Here’s another theory: it (economic depression) will end with riots in the streets of most large cities, and huge increases in crime, frightening increases particularly in cities like San Diego (proximity to Mexico, large poor illegal immigrant population). This has implications for housing prices.

It implies there IS a specialty sector of housing that will appreciate significantly more than most: homes buried deep inside the (presently) safest areas plus residing within WALLED zones that you can only enter at single gate manned with armed security guards.

You may think there are too few such areas currently available with all those features; however, you should search for sites that can be quickly UPGRADED to have these features. For example, wealthier subdivisions that are already completely surrounded now by some form of perimeter fence and only have one or two entrances. Ten years on and those residents will have demanded that it be converted to say a 10 ft tall concrete wall (maybe with barbed wire on top), and the subdivision will have one gated entrance with armed guards where your ID has to match to resident name list to gain entry.

The dynamic is that the rich will get scared. Then they will flock to highly secure housing areas. That will drive the price way up.

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You wouldn’t believe it if I told you all the stories of strange food I’ve personally eaten (or saw co-workers eat) in Asia.

Here are a couple true stories:

We frequently travel to Guangdong / Shenzhen area. There is restaurant called “1 + 1”

They serve bugs, everything from field maggots and grub worms to cockroaches. Everything is LIVE and then stir-fried.

They literally dump several mounds of different stir-fried bugs onto your plate. Then you eat it. Then you pay for it. You obviously drink major amounts of alcohol ahead of the first bite, and with each bite; otherwise, you wouldn’t do it.

My joke is that name of restaurant “1 + 1” meaning is if you eat ONE serving fried cockroach PLUS ONE serving fried grub worm, you’ll THROW UP at least TWO TIMES! (maybe more)

Should I post upload some real photos of the “entrees” served by the “1 + 1” restaurant?

Another story is I have many times eaten dog when visiting Korea. No joking. Those nice Korean co-workers later told me, “Eat dog, give you dog energy, you make a lotta bang bang with your wife, good for marriage!”

They they asked me, “So, friend, you get some good dog energy from the dog meat meals?”

I told them I did find myself other day trying to dry hump the leg of some nice looking Korean college girls I saw on the street, but that is no cause for alarm ’cause that’s my normal behavior whatever is my diet.

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You wouldn’t believe it if I told you all the stories of strange food I’ve personally eaten (or saw co-workers eat) in Asia.

Here are a couple true stories:

We frequently travel to Guangdong / Shenzhen area. There is restaurant called “1 + 1”

They serve bugs, everything from field maggots and grub worms to cockroaches. Everything is LIVE and then stir-fried.

They literally dump several mounds of different stir-fried bugs onto your plate. Then you eat it. Then you pay for it. You obviously drink major amounts of alcohol ahead of the first bite, and with each bite; otherwise, you wouldn’t do it.

My joke is that name of restaurant “1 + 1” meaning is if you eat ONE serving fried cockroach PLUS ONE serving fried grub worm, you’ll THROW UP at least TWO TIMES! (maybe more)

Should I post upload some real photos of the “entrees” served by the “1 + 1” restaurant?

Another story is I have many times eaten dog when visiting Korea. No joking. Those nice Korean co-workers later told me, “Eat dog, give you dog energy, you make a lotta bang bang with your wife, good for marriage!”

They they asked me, “So, friend, you get some good dog energy from the dog meat meals?”

I told them I did find myself other day trying to dry hump the leg of some nice looking Korean college girls I saw on the street, but that is no cause for alarm ’cause that’s my normal behavior whatever is my diet.

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You wouldn’t believe it if I told you all the stories of strange food I’ve personally eaten (or saw co-workers eat) in Asia.

Here are a couple true stories:

We frequently travel to Guangdong / Shenzhen area. There is restaurant called “1 + 1”

They serve bugs, everything from field maggots and grub worms to cockroaches. Everything is LIVE and then stir-fried.

They literally dump several mounds of different stir-fried bugs onto your plate. Then you eat it. Then you pay for it. You obviously drink major amounts of alcohol ahead of the first bite, and with each bite; otherwise, you wouldn’t do it.

My joke is that name of restaurant “1 + 1” meaning is if you eat ONE serving fried cockroach PLUS ONE serving fried grub worm, you’ll THROW UP at least TWO TIMES! (maybe more)

Should I post upload some real photos of the “entrees” served by the “1 + 1” restaurant?

Another story is I have many times eaten dog when visiting Korea. No joking. Those nice Korean co-workers later told me, “Eat dog, give you dog energy, you make a lotta bang bang with your wife, good for marriage!”

They they asked me, “So, friend, you get some good dog energy from the dog meat meals?”

I told them I did find myself other day trying to dry hump the leg of some nice looking Korean college girls I saw on the street, but that is no cause for alarm ’cause that’s my normal behavior whatever is my diet.

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You wouldn’t believe it if I told you all the stories of strange food I’ve personally eaten (or saw co-workers eat) in Asia.

Here are a couple true stories:

We frequently travel to Guangdong / Shenzhen area. There is restaurant called “1 + 1”

They serve bugs, everything from field maggots and grub worms to cockroaches. Everything is LIVE and then stir-fried.

They literally dump several mounds of different stir-fried bugs onto your plate. Then you eat it. Then you pay for it. You obviously drink major amounts of alcohol ahead of the first bite, and with each bite; otherwise, you wouldn’t do it.

My joke is that name of restaurant “1 + 1” meaning is if you eat ONE serving fried cockroach PLUS ONE serving fried grub worm, you’ll THROW UP at least TWO TIMES! (maybe more)

Should I post upload some real photos of the “entrees” served by the “1 + 1” restaurant?

Another story is I have many times eaten dog when visiting Korea. No joking. Those nice Korean co-workers later told me, “Eat dog, give you dog energy, you make a lotta bang bang with your wife, good for marriage!”

They they asked me, “So, friend, you get some good dog energy from the dog meat meals?”

I told them I did find myself other day trying to dry hump the leg of some nice looking Korean college girls I saw on the street, but that is no cause for alarm ’cause that’s my normal behavior whatever is my diet.

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You wouldn’t believe it if I told you all the stories of strange food I’ve personally eaten (or saw co-workers eat) in Asia.

Here are a couple true stories:

We frequently travel to Guangdong / Shenzhen area. There is restaurant called “1 + 1”

They serve bugs, everything from field maggots and grub worms to cockroaches. Everything is LIVE and then stir-fried.

They literally dump several mounds of different stir-fried bugs onto your plate. Then you eat it. Then you pay for it. You obviously drink major amounts of alcohol ahead of the first bite, and with each bite; otherwise, you wouldn’t do it.

My joke is that name of restaurant “1 + 1” meaning is if you eat ONE serving fried cockroach PLUS ONE serving fried grub worm, you’ll THROW UP at least TWO TIMES! (maybe more)

Should I post upload some real photos of the “entrees” served by the “1 + 1” restaurant?

Another story is I have many times eaten dog when visiting Korea. No joking. Those nice Korean co-workers later told me, “Eat dog, give you dog energy, you make a lotta bang bang with your wife, good for marriage!”

They they asked me, “So, friend, you get some good dog energy from the dog meat meals?”

I told them I did find myself other day trying to dry hump the leg of some nice looking Korean college girls I saw on the street, but that is no cause for alarm ’cause that’s my normal behavior whatever is my diet.

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For those (including Steve Jobs) who say iphone 4 and AT&T are both great, here’s my story of buying the iPhone 4.

Explanation: as part of my job I do product “tear down” analysis reports. So I’m ordering this product to cancel the contract, keep the product then disassemble it.

I ordered the 16 GB thru Apple for $254.41, which includes signing up for the AT&T contract.

The contract STATES you can cancel (the contract) within three days of initial activation,then you don’t pay the $36 Activation Feefee, and you can do this with the option to keep the iPhone 4 but you must then pay an additional $325 contract cancellation fee.

(The phone retail without the contact is $599 plus about $60 in tax.) So per the AT&T contact buying the phone with the contract and canceling within 3 days, I’m saving roughly ($660 – $579.41) = $80.59 towards ending up with the phone without a contract.

Apparently too many people also figured that out. Here’s what happened next:

1) I used the iPhone 4 to call AT&T Customer Service, from our front yard in the middle of Sunnyvale. We live a mile away from Apple. I tried the front yard, after the POS phone could even place the call from any location inside our home.

Phones on any cell network have great Tx / Rx signal when calling within our home, from Verizon to T-Mobile to Sprint, etc. But with the Apple iPhone 4 on the AT&T network, you cannot even make a single call from within our home.

The stupid iPhone on AT&T network even kept dropping the call when I’m on the front lawn!

YES, I was being careful NOT to touch the stupid iPhone antenna “bad spot” when making these calls.

The thing doesn’t even have good enough signal in the middle of Silicon Valley where there are basically cell towers every few blocks. The AT&T customer service kept saying “You’re breaking up.” I said, “yeah, because I’m using an iPhone with antenna problem on your crappy network.”

So I had to use my T-mobile Blackberry to call AT&T to cancel the iPhone 4 contract.

2) AT&T customer service makes me wait THIRTY minutes to speak with someone.

Then they tell me the contract was a LIE and now they changed the terms, and I CANNOT cancel and pay a fee and keep the phone. OMG, what friggen liars. They reneged on the original contract terms.

They say now if I want to keep the product and cancel the contract I must: wait until day 31, pay the full 1st month’s bill, pay the $36 activation fee, and pay the $325 fee.

The only other option was for me to call Apple and return the product and pay no extra fees, which I did.

This is why people hate AT&T’s network and their customer service, and this is more proof the iPhone 4 has horrible cell signal Tx and Rx.

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For those (including Steve Jobs) who say iphone 4 and AT&T are both great, here’s my story of buying the iPhone 4.

Explanation: as part of my job I do product “tear down” analysis reports. So I’m ordering this product to cancel the contract, keep the product then disassemble it.

I ordered the 16 GB thru Apple for $254.41, which includes signing up for the AT&T contract.

The contract STATES you can cancel (the contract) within three days of initial activation,then you don’t pay the $36 Activation Feefee, and you can do this with the option to keep the iPhone 4 but you must then pay an additional $325 contract cancellation fee.

(The phone retail without the contact is $599 plus about $60 in tax.) So per the AT&T contact buying the phone with the contract and canceling within 3 days, I’m saving roughly ($660 – $579.41) = $80.59 towards ending up with the phone without a contract.

Apparently too many people also figured that out. Here’s what happened next:

1) I used the iPhone 4 to call AT&T Customer Service, from our front yard in the middle of Sunnyvale. We live a mile away from Apple. I tried the front yard, after the POS phone could even place the call from any location inside our home.

Phones on any cell network have great Tx / Rx signal when calling within our home, from Verizon to T-Mobile to Sprint, etc. But with the Apple iPhone 4 on the AT&T network, you cannot even make a single call from within our home.

The stupid iPhone on AT&T network even kept dropping the call when I’m on the front lawn!

YES, I was being careful NOT to touch the stupid iPhone antenna “bad spot” when making these calls.

The thing doesn’t even have good enough signal in the middle of Silicon Valley where there are basically cell towers every few blocks. The AT&T customer service kept saying “You’re breaking up.” I said, “yeah, because I’m using an iPhone with antenna problem on your crappy network.”

So I had to use my T-mobile Blackberry to call AT&T to cancel the iPhone 4 contract.

2) AT&T customer service makes me wait THIRTY minutes to speak with someone.

Then they tell me the contract was a LIE and now they changed the terms, and I CANNOT cancel and pay a fee and keep the phone. OMG, what friggen liars. They reneged on the original contract terms.

They say now if I want to keep the product and cancel the contract I must: wait until day 31, pay the full 1st month’s bill, pay the $36 activation fee, and pay the $325 fee.

The only other option was for me to call Apple and return the product and pay no extra fees, which I did.

This is why people hate AT&T’s network and their customer service, and this is more proof the iPhone 4 has horrible cell signal Tx and Rx.

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For those (including Steve Jobs) who say iphone 4 and AT&T are both great, here’s my story of buying the iPhone 4.

Explanation: as part of my job I do product “tear down” analysis reports. So I’m ordering this product to cancel the contract, keep the product then disassemble it.

I ordered the 16 GB thru Apple for $254.41, which includes signing up for the AT&T contract.

The contract STATES you can cancel (the contract) within three days of initial activation,then you don’t pay the $36 Activation Feefee, and you can do this with the option to keep the iPhone 4 but you must then pay an additional $325 contract cancellation fee.

(The phone retail without the contact is $599 plus about $60 in tax.) So per the AT&T contact buying the phone with the contract and canceling within 3 days, I’m saving roughly ($660 – $579.41) = $80.59 towards ending up with the phone without a contract.

Apparently too many people also figured that out. Here’s what happened next:

1) I used the iPhone 4 to call AT&T Customer Service, from our front yard in the middle of Sunnyvale. We live a mile away from Apple. I tried the front yard, after the POS phone could even place the call from any location inside our home.

Phones on any cell network have great Tx / Rx signal when calling within our home, from Verizon to T-Mobile to Sprint, etc. But with the Apple iPhone 4 on the AT&T network, you cannot even make a single call from within our home.

The stupid iPhone on AT&T network even kept dropping the call when I’m on the front lawn!

YES, I was being careful NOT to touch the stupid iPhone antenna “bad spot” when making these calls.

The thing doesn’t even have good enough signal in the middle of Silicon Valley where there are basically cell towers every few blocks. The AT&T customer service kept saying “You’re breaking up.” I said, “yeah, because I’m using an iPhone with antenna problem on your crappy network.”

So I had to use my T-mobile Blackberry to call AT&T to cancel the iPhone 4 contract.

2) AT&T customer service makes me wait THIRTY minutes to speak with someone.

Then they tell me the contract was a LIE and now they changed the terms, and I CANNOT cancel and pay a fee and keep the phone. OMG, what friggen liars. They reneged on the original contract terms.

They say now if I want to keep the product and cancel the contract I must: wait until day 31, pay the full 1st month’s bill, pay the $36 activation fee, and pay the $325 fee.

The only other option was for me to call Apple and return the product and pay no extra fees, which I did.

This is why people hate AT&T’s network and their customer service, and this is more proof the iPhone 4 has horrible cell signal Tx and Rx.

[stockstradr]

For those (including Steve Jobs) who say iphone 4 and AT&T are both great, here’s my story of buying the iPhone 4.

Explanation: as part of my job I do product “tear down” analysis reports. So I’m ordering this product to cancel the contract, keep the product then disassemble it.

I ordered the 16 GB thru Apple for $254.41, which includes signing up for the AT&T contract.

The contract STATES you can cancel (the contract) within three days of initial activation,then you don’t pay the $36 Activation Feefee, and you can do this with the option to keep the iPhone 4 but you must then pay an additional $325 contract cancellation fee.

(The phone retail without the contact is $599 plus about $60 in tax.) So per the AT&T contact buying the phone with the contract and canceling within 3 days, I’m saving roughly ($660 – $579.41) = $80.59 towards ending up with the phone without a contract.

Apparently too many people also figured that out. Here’s what happened next:

1) I used the iPhone 4 to call AT&T Customer Service, from our front yard in the middle of Sunnyvale. We live a mile away from Apple. I tried the front yard, after the POS phone could even place the call from any location inside our home.

Phones on any cell network have great Tx / Rx signal when calling within our home, from Verizon to T-Mobile to Sprint, etc. But with the Apple iPhone 4 on the AT&T network, you cannot even make a single call from within our home.

The stupid iPhone on AT&T network even kept dropping the call when I’m on the front lawn!

YES, I was being careful NOT to touch the stupid iPhone antenna “bad spot” when making these calls.

The thing doesn’t even have good enough signal in the middle of Silicon Valley where there are basically cell towers every few blocks. The AT&T customer service kept saying “You’re breaking up.” I said, “yeah, because I’m using an iPhone with antenna problem on your crappy network.”

So I had to use my T-mobile Blackberry to call AT&T to cancel the iPhone 4 contract.

2) AT&T customer service makes me wait THIRTY minutes to speak with someone.

Then they tell me the contract was a LIE and now they changed the terms, and I CANNOT cancel and pay a fee and keep the phone. OMG, what friggen liars. They reneged on the original contract terms.

They say now if I want to keep the product and cancel the contract I must: wait until day 31, pay the full 1st month’s bill, pay the $36 activation fee, and pay the $325 fee.

The only other option was for me to call Apple and return the product and pay no extra fees, which I did.

This is why people hate AT&T’s network and their customer service, and this is more proof the iPhone 4 has horrible cell signal Tx and Rx.

[stockstradr]

For those (including Steve Jobs) who say iphone 4 and AT&T are both great, here’s my story of buying the iPhone 4.

Explanation: as part of my job I do product “tear down” analysis reports. So I’m ordering this product to cancel the contract, keep the product then disassemble it.

I ordered the 16 GB thru Apple for $254.41, which includes signing up for the AT&T contract.

The contract STATES you can cancel (the contract) within three days of initial activation,then you don’t pay the $36 Activation Feefee, and you can do this with the option to keep the iPhone 4 but you must then pay an additional $325 contract cancellation fee.

(The phone retail without the contact is $599 plus about $60 in tax.) So per the AT&T contact buying the phone with the contract and canceling within 3 days, I’m saving roughly ($660 – $579.41) = $80.59 towards ending up with the phone without a contract.

Apparently too many people also figured that out. Here’s what happened next:

1) I used the iPhone 4 to call AT&T Customer Service, from our front yard in the middle of Sunnyvale. We live a mile away from Apple. I tried the front yard, after the POS phone could even place the call from any location inside our home.

Phones on any cell network have great Tx / Rx signal when calling within our home, from Verizon to T-Mobile to Sprint, etc. But with the Apple iPhone 4 on the AT&T network, you cannot even make a single call from within our home.

The stupid iPhone on AT&T network even kept dropping the call when I’m on the front lawn!

YES, I was being careful NOT to touch the stupid iPhone antenna “bad spot” when making these calls.

The thing doesn’t even have good enough signal in the middle of Silicon Valley where there are basically cell towers every few blocks. The AT&T customer service kept saying “You’re breaking up.” I said, “yeah, because I’m using an iPhone with antenna problem on your crappy network.”

So I had to use my T-mobile Blackberry to call AT&T to cancel the iPhone 4 contract.

2) AT&T customer service makes me wait THIRTY minutes to speak with someone.

Then they tell me the contract was a LIE and now they changed the terms, and I CANNOT cancel and pay a fee and keep the phone. OMG, what friggen liars. They reneged on the original contract terms.

They say now if I want to keep the product and cancel the contract I must: wait until day 31, pay the full 1st month’s bill, pay the $36 activation fee, and pay the $325 fee.

The only other option was for me to call Apple and return the product and pay no extra fees, which I did.

This is why people hate AT&T’s network and their customer service, and this is more proof the iPhone 4 has horrible cell signal Tx and Rx.

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“The Korean made units seem to be the highest rated (Sunpentown, LG, etc)..”

I agree. We bought a Sears and then later realized Sears had re-branded the LG model. So we have a LG model sold through sears. We like this unit.

This is what we bought and is an example of one of the 15,000 BTU or larger window air conditioners that still have a current draw low enough it won’t trip the fuse on a 15 A dedicated circuit (circuit has no other additional current draw). I should explain that you cannot put a 15 A rated air conditioner on a 15 A circuit because it will typically trip the fuse. You need something that is about 12 A or less to ensure no problem on a dedicated 15 A house circuit.

LG LWHD1500ER (15,000 BTU)

This baby will cool down our entire 1200 sq ft vacation condo. And if you want to cool just one room, say 12 ft X 20 ft, this baby will cool that into a deep freeze condition in about 5 min flat. When you turn it on, it sounds like a medium sized diesel generator kicking in. The characters on “Home Improvement” would probably let out a few *argh* grunts if they heard it.

And this LG unit even delivers more (18,000 BTU) at lower current draw:

LWHD1800R

Now there ARE some drawbacks of buying such large window air conditioners:

1) so LOUD you never want them in a bedroom or living room. Put in a back room to hide the noise.

2) So heavy you need a couple guys to install. So heavy you better put strong wood or metal frame (as we did) under the portion that hangs out the window. (many of these have fallen out of windows without such a support!)

3) The only way a 15,000 BTU window AC unit can cool 1200 sq ft of space spread through multiple rooms is you must have massive air circulation spread the cool air out into all those rooms. I’m talking about three box fans or more.

A neat trick is to re-use the white Styrofoam pad sitting under the unit as it ships, and then install the air conditioner into your window sitting upon that same Styrofoam pad, where that pad rests upon a solid plywood base in the window. This pad attenuates the AC’s vibrations from reaching and resonating in the house structure.

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“The Korean made units seem to be the highest rated (Sunpentown, LG, etc)..”

I agree. We bought a Sears and then later realized Sears had re-branded the LG model. So we have a LG model sold through sears. We like this unit.

This is what we bought and is an example of one of the 15,000 BTU or larger window air conditioners that still have a current draw low enough it won’t trip the fuse on a 15 A dedicated circuit (circuit has no other additional current draw). I should explain that you cannot put a 15 A rated air conditioner on a 15 A circuit because it will typically trip the fuse. You need something that is about 12 A or less to ensure no problem on a dedicated 15 A house circuit.

LG LWHD1500ER (15,000 BTU)

This baby will cool down our entire 1200 sq ft vacation condo. And if you want to cool just one room, say 12 ft X 20 ft, this baby will cool that into a deep freeze condition in about 5 min flat. When you turn it on, it sounds like a medium sized diesel generator kicking in. The characters on “Home Improvement” would probably let out a few *argh* grunts if they heard it.

And this LG unit even delivers more (18,000 BTU) at lower current draw:

LWHD1800R

Now there ARE some drawbacks of buying such large window air conditioners:

1) so LOUD you never want them in a bedroom or living room. Put in a back room to hide the noise.

2) So heavy you need a couple guys to install. So heavy you better put strong wood or metal frame (as we did) under the portion that hangs out the window. (many of these have fallen out of windows without such a support!)

3) The only way a 15,000 BTU window AC unit can cool 1200 sq ft of space spread through multiple rooms is you must have massive air circulation spread the cool air out into all those rooms. I’m talking about three box fans or more.

A neat trick is to re-use the white Styrofoam pad sitting under the unit as it ships, and then install the air conditioner into your window sitting upon that same Styrofoam pad, where that pad rests upon a solid plywood base in the window. This pad attenuates the AC’s vibrations from reaching and resonating in the house structure.

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