Midea MAP12S1TBL Air Conditioner, 12,000 BTU-dual hose, Black

This air conditioner kept my large master bedroom cool the past year with no issues whatsoever. I loved how it has a variable speed compressor, which allows it to run quiet and efficient once a room gets to temperature, but on those days when you want to cool the place down quickly, you can let it rip and cool the room down quickly.I live in California, so humidity isn't an issue here and I've never had to deal with any leakage issues.The portability aspect wasn't important to me since it stayed in place the entire time, but it does have caster wheels if you wanted to roll it around from room to room. That said, the thing is HEAVY and the exhaust kit would need to be reinstalled in each window and that is the only downside of this unit. It feels like very cheap plastic and I could see it breaking easily. I used aluminum foil tape to hold the outlet duct into the window exhaust piece and then tape the plastic piece into the window frame itself. This kept it all attached together and I never had any issues with it breaking. Don't plug on moving this up and downstairs regularly or you're going to hurt yourself or the unit.I particularly liked the scheduling smart features and the bedtime mode. I like falling asleep in a chilly room but I don't want to wake up in a cold room. This allows for you to have precise control over the temperature while you're sleeping.My only other gripe with the unit is the unit makes a rather loud high pitched noise when turning on the compressor and thumps rather loudly. I got used to it, but I could imagine a sensitive sleeper would be woken up.

This review is for the Midea Duo. I bought this because I needed a portable AC for one of the bedrooms in my condo because the central air is inadequate. I especially wanted a smart AC so that I could use it with my Alexa ecosystem. Unfortunately, despite the good looks, quiet operation and good build quality, this thing has some major shortcomings that make it unusable and a complete waste of money.For starters, I received it with one of the tabs used to hold the hose in place on the window slider broken. Therefore, I needed a replacement part but Amazon doesn’t carry parts, so they had to send me a while new unit so that I could return the unit with the broken part. This delayed its use. Amazon was good about it so I don’t have any complaints there.The first major issue I have is with the window slider itself, a part that must be used in order to use the AC. For starters, you’d expect a $600 AC to come with high quality accessories but this part is cheaply made, flimsy and thin with absolutely no insulation properties at all. Furthermore, once assembled the sides are not flat, so you are left with gaps between the flat surfaces of the window and the sliders. They give you foam tape to adhere to the edges but this is inadequate. You’re left with a window insert that not only gets hot, but also lets bugs in and sound/ outside noise. The other issue with the slider is that for some stupid reason, they placed the hole for the exhaust hose very close to one edge. Its so close that when you use the sliding window adapter, it hits the sill and cannot snap into place. You have to build it out on that sure to get it to work. Why wouldn’t they just have centered it!? Furthermore, the hose is huge, probably twice the width of standard units and it’s unwieldy, so as gentle as I was being with this thing, one of the tabs broke (again!) and now it won’t connect properly … I had to glue it on with ABS cement so it doesn’t pull out. Unfortunately, due to the uncommon shape of the hose, you cannot upgrade to something else and you are left trying to modify it. Fine, I took two 1x2” wooden rails and created a box to support the sliders and added styrofoam to insulate it.Unfortunately, the second major problem is that this unit does nothing for the humidity while in AC mode because it reuses the condensation to make it more efficient… but, even though I have this thing keeping the room at 68 degrees, it jacked the humidity up to 84%! So the air is really dense and because of this it’s uncomfortable and useless! Unfortunately because of all the time it took to get this thing situated, Ive missed the return window by several days and now I’m out $600!I highly recommend staying away from this product. I really wanted to love it but instead I loathe it!Pros: good build quality of the AC unit itself, wifi and smart app enabled, quiet, blows a good amount of air.Cons: huge unwieldy exhaust hose, cheaply made and poorly designed hose adapter, cheaply made and poorly designed window sliders.

I sleep hot regardless of the season. My options were to buy a huge fan and place it on me at all times during the night with a sheet as a blanket or just suffer through it. It took my bed being soaked with my sweat several summers in a row for me to give up and look into an air conditioner. I didn't want anything super amazing as the room I sleep in is fairly small. I did want a dual hose design since I've heard they're better at removing water from the system but it wasn't a deal breaker if I didn't get that.After much looking I came upon this unit. It has a remote, it works with Alexa, I can control the unit with my smartphone, it has the dual hose system but most importantly it's energy efficient. You see I used to have a hotel grade air conditioner and it ran most of the time due to the room it was in having no air flow. That unit was a champ as it kept that large room chilly all the time. Though it used a lot of power. It added over a hundred dollars to our power bill every month and I just couldn't deal with that again. Now this unit is much better but it only runs when I sleep and I clean the filter on the regular to keep it from using too much power. It hasn't broke my bank yet so that's always a plus. Oh, and did I mention this unit is a beast at cooling? I know I said the room is small but I'd never expect this unit to cool my bedroom in less than a couple of minutes like this unit does. Most of the time I forget to turn it on via my phone and it doesn't really matter. I enter my room, hit the on button and get into bed and within minutes I'm nice and chilly for a good nights sleep.I have very little to complain about with this air conditioner. It checks off a lot of boxes I had for what I wanted and then some. The only thing I can say is that it's a bit noisy. I don't see that as a bad thing cause most units are loud. Actually I don't know if I could sleep without the noise now. But if you have to have silence in order to drift off to dreamland then maybe find something else. The amount of features this unit has at a fairly decent price accompanied with it being energy efficient should be a top contender for most. Highly recommend.Whoops, almost forgot. My unit was missing the adapter that hooks to the plastic hose so to have water drawn away from the unit and into a better place. I contacted Midea for a replacement part and was told they don't carry certain parts and my only option was to send the entire unit back for a replacement. This was well after I had installed the unit. I, like the adult I am, called them stupid and argued their flawed logic. Sending a heavy piece of tech back because they forgot to add a small and almost weightless piece of plastic was asinine. Why put me and the poor delivery people through something so frustrating over something so simple. That conversation went on for too long and got me nowhere. In the end I didn't need the part but I highly suggest anyone buying this to check every part to make sure it's all there cause from what I can tell they don't carry parts that a normal company would.