The Windmill Window Air Conditioner Full Setup and Testing

This is the 6000 BTU window windmill air conditioner and in this video I'm going to do a quick unboxing and installation and test a few things out

So let's start with the unboxing. It's going to have these straps right on top which can just be cut with some scissors

And then a knife to open up the box. Alright, and this is actually one of the biggest box for window AC so far that I'm looking at

Up top, the first thing I see is going to be this part here, which actually, you know what

This is just a piece of cardboard, so I'll get rid of that. And then here's some more cardboard, although I do think there is something in here

And that's correct. We're going to have a few things in here, which is going to include some instruction booklet

This part looks to be a carbon air filter, the window sash, the adhesive strip

Oh, that's cool. It even comes with some scissors. Here's some hardware and batteries and this other foam piece

the other part of this and the remote control and also this box just lifts right out

this makes it easier to actually move the ac itself i might as well just get all these strips out too

and there it is and so far this is actually the cleanest unboxing of an AC I've done so far

I do like the fact that this part for the window is actually automatically installed so I don't

have to do anything now there's some tape around here so I will remove all this out

and yeah there it is so these shutters just come right out and again I do like the fact that they are installed so this is going to make

actually installing the fan on the window a whole lot easier just like that all right let's get this mounted now and I'll be putting it right over here all

right so before bringing the AC over here we want to attach the window sash and we're going to start

with the foam piece so this should be cut to the length over here and installed right inside the

right and the left channel. And then the adhesive foam can be placed

right on the top over here. But for now, let me just put the unit inside here

Ooh, now this is pretty heavy, but I could slowly get it in

There, that looks about centered. And there. and then the shutters can be moved across just like so

put as down as possible yeah so here's what we have so far and with these shutters yeah these are

the most convenient ones i've tested out so far because it's automatically installed the only

thing that i'm seeing here is there's like a little bit of a gap about it's okay because what

we do is screw this in in a later step but we'll figure this out later since there's not really room

for this to go in here and same thing over here but there is a hole for the top the other top and

then right in the center too so let's move on with the next steps so now it's time to secure

everything into place and there's going to be four screw holes right over here and these are pretty

easy to go by so you just have to adjust it raise it if you need to and then screw it right in and

then same thing at the bottom. The issue for this is that there's not a lot of space to screw in here

This doesn't have enough thickness, so I'm not really going to do that now. So an alternative

that I found would be using these brackets. Now, they're meant for something like this

but the same issue arises too. So something I was thinking is, what if we actually use these in here

like so and then screw it in? Now, this isn't really the function of this

but that'll be kind of like an idea and then there's also this right here and this is going

to be the gap cover so after screwing it in here this can just go be placed just like so

and then the rest of the foam piece can be placed right on top over here just to seal it up and

then there's also this l bracket so this can be screwed in on the top right over here either

against here or like against over here but with that out of the way let's move on to the next step

and that's going to be the panels and this is pretty unique because I've never had this before

in a window AC these are basically just cosmetic panels and this is to make this part look prettier

so you don't see the window shutters and you see these clips these would attach over here that's

why I was saying these have like an actual different function so you'd measure it out cut it

and then insert it on the side over here a little bit

There's also these clips to keep it in place and then just clip that

I'm not gonna do that for now. I'm actually gonna go straight to testing the unit out

and downloading the app. All right so I downloaded the windmill app and now it time to get started and connected So we can start by turning the fan on turning the AC on And then there going to be multiple buttons over here But for now we just have to hold the Wi button until it starts blinking like this

And then I'll press add new device. And there, Windmill Air wants to join the Wi-Fi network, so join

right now connected to Wi-Fi now let me just put the password for this real quick all right that's

all set so I can join continue now it's configuring device reconnecting back to cloud and then waiting

for device online all right all set and that's the name of the device I'm going to name it

something a little bit easier to remember and I'll just say I'll just say like AC and that's it

and then finish all right so now it's all set and this page pops up it says you're all set now get

the most out of your windmill experience start earning rewards and helping the environment by signing up for windmill eco rewards and then here's the description of it and now in this case

i'm just going to ignore this i'm not going to enroll now so i'll click the x button right there

and then here's the control we have on the ac tells me the name ac online at the upper left

corner current room temperature is 82 and oh by the way the screen looks like it disappeared

so let me just press something all right 82 it says the room temperature is 82 and then yep that

correlates with that uh set temperature is 79 oh okay so this is this is how you could change it

oops went back to this you could change that there i could change the fan speed from auto low medium high

i could put fan cool or eco mode and yeah that's basically it for that so once i press

let's see how long it takes for this to register okay so let me go back to fan and so you can see okay so that was actually pretty quick on the

screen and then it does take a few seconds for the ac to actually do that and that's basically

it for the screen on here it's a save the environment and earn cash in three minutes

really wants me to get started with that up to sixty dollars per year per ac and rewards

i'll ignore that for now and let's see what else we can find here so here's the rest of the app

windmill we can see my profile home settings about log out let's go to my profile and actually

let me not show you this this shows some other information uh home tells me my home my time zone

my actual address so let me not show that either and then members shows my email and then settings

settings gives me my language and if I want to keep the screen always on so if I always want

that to be on which I actually do so I'll keep it like that and then about

that's basically much it for that part and now in the upper right corner we have a few things so

let's see what this is this is automations oh that's cool in Korean automation so it says

some recommended scenarios a basic timer or favorite setting let's see what basic timer is

you can swipe okay so power switch so wait two hours power switch okay so in other words it turns

off after two hours i'll just discard that and then let me let me just create one to see what

it lets me do all right schedule automation will start a specific time of date yeah just to turn

it on and off at a certain time sunrise sunset automation will start based on the position of

the sun oh that's kind of interesting device state trigger automation by certain state of the device

ah okay let's say if like this gets hotter than 80 degrees i want it to turn on

or between something or something has changed let's see has changed oh if the room temperature has changed like x amount of degrees okay

okay so there's some customization to do here but now back here we have the notification bell

which there's nothing that eye screen which again shows me my information here and then the plus

button if i want to add for another device i guess if i have yeah like there's also a fan that has

because it says for the fan make sure the lights of the fan are blinking and that's basically much

it for the controls on this and then time for the controls on the remote control again the same

things. I could switch the mode. Yeah, the mode, you see fan right there, cool, and then one more

time, eco, and then that's basically it, and then fan, fan two, three, yeah, there's three different

settings, and then we go to cool, and then I can go as low as, yep, 60 degrees, and let's see how

high, and I can't hold it, by the way, it does not keep going. I do have to manually keep pressing it

And this goes as high as 86. But for now, let me turn this off and then just start with the actual test

So the first test is going to be with this decibel reader to see how noisy and how quiet it is So let start with the ambient reading And now let turn this on

And by the way, keep in mind, I'm going to keep it right over here. But where the fan noise is actually coming out of is going to be up here towards the top side

So we'll do two tests of this. So I'll start with turning it on

I know I'm going to use my phone to turn it on. Okay, I guess 79 is the lowest it could be. and that's going to be just for the fan and we'll keep it on low for now

and now let's go to medium

and now let's go to high and let's start over and this time we're just going to go to low and start with cool

then also you can see how the settings change right over there and the temperature for this one is going to be 66 with the coldest being yeah coldest being 60

so i'll leave it there and let's start now again this is going to be low

now medium and now high

and we're going to start this all over again this time just with the AC to cool on and I'm going to

go from the top. So let's just raise this up a bit and I'll go like right over there

So this isn't, this is kind of directly above it a little bit. Yeah. And this is low

and now medium and now high

and let's turn it off all right and we're actually going to stay in this position again because we're going to test

another thing out now and that's going to be fan speed so actually this might be pretty easy I

could actually just leave this right over here. Turn it on and I'm going to start with low

and this is going to be for the cool. Oh yeah, let me actually put different units. So

there, miles per hour. So for the low setting, it's going to be roughly a little under eight

miles per hour. Now let's head over to medium. This is going to about...oh it keeps going up

Yeah so it looked to freeze at about ten and a half. Oh, still going more

Actually I have to hold this here. Yeah. So the difference is actually changing a lot

but it looks like yeah, around 11 miles per hour. And now let's go to high

Oh, we shot up to over 13 and now we're back to 12 and a half ish

Yeah. So around 12 and a half miles per hour now. All right

Turn that off. And now it's time for the next test. and that's going to be with some temperature readings

and also seeing what the wattage is. So actually with the fan fully turned off

here's what it looks like. We're going to be at 0.7 watts

Here, you can get a better view right there. And then let me also turn on

Also, let me back up a little bit so you can get a different view of it. And now keep in mind

since this has been on during the other tests, probably is going to be colder than we'd expect it to

uh yeah like look right over here yeah actually everything is blue whoa

it's kind of hard to differentiate what is what so here let me go up

yeah and you can see my skin for example i'm around 90 and a half degrees fahrenheit

so actually uh let me let this warm up a little bit so it can be a bit more of an accurate reading

and I'll be back in about five minutes. All right, so it's been over 10 minutes

and here's what we still have. So there's like a little bit better of an outline now

Oh yeah, you could see. Up top, actually let me see where the top would be

Right over here okay So it referring to this part right here Yeah this part right over here that going to be the hottest which is going to be at 87 degrees And the rest of the unit

of the body is about 82.6 degrees Fahrenheit. You can see that right at the top. Let's check

the window shutters, which would be right there. Okay. Let me point to it. Also it's morning time

right now, so it's not gonna be the hottest, the sun isn't hitting my porch

yet here. It's 82.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Alright, so now it's time to turn this on

and I'm gonna start at low fan speed and we're gonna go to the highest

temperature possible, which is gonna be 86 and actually the room temperature is 84

but that's fine I'll leave it at 86 and I'll see what this comes down to. It's

It's currently 807, so I'll be back in 10 minutes, and then we'll read the temperature

and then do that again a few times. So I'll be right back. Also, one more thing

Currently at low mode, it's going to be 439 watts. Now I'll be back in 10 minutes

All right, so over 10 minutes passed, and now let's check the wattage. It's going to be at 61.4 watts

61.8 now. And now let's check the temperature. And okay, let's go to that hottest part again

How this part is at 85.4. And then now back to the body

Body is at 81.5. And also, let me actually check on the top where the vent is actually coming from

And that would be at 82.8. And here, so you can get a better view of this

So here's the top of the vent. 81.9 degrees Fahrenheit. All right, so now let's do this again. Let's get over to, yeah, let's decrease this to about

76 degrees. I'm also going to keep that in that low fan speed again, and I'll be back in another

10 minutes. All right, so another 10-ish minutes passed, and now it's currently at 573 watts

575 now. And let's see what the temperature reading looks like. Oh, so we can actually get

much clearer picture of everything there's a huge separation so let's go

with right over here this looks to be the cool this part and this is 72.9

degrees Fahrenheit let's go all the way to that hottest part here and that would

be 70 or 80 81 and a half degrees Fahrenheit and now let's look at the

top so I will have to move this camera over like this so you can get better

readout and yeah this is where the cold air is coming from in there yeah you can clearly see it's a lot colder let's go right there and then you could see this

is about 50 about 50 degrees Fahrenheit okay now let's wait another 10 minutes

but let me also change the settings for this and instead of 76 let's go down to

actually you know what let's go down to the coldest setting which is going to be 61 degrees fahrenheit

and i'll be back in another 10 minutes all right so it's been over 10 minutes and let's check out

the wattage and this is going to be 571 watts and now let's look at the temperature

now at the coldest setting here this looks to be 72 72 73 degrees

let's go up over here on the top of the frame and this is going to be

77 degrees fahrenheit and now once again let's go all the way to the top

where the coldest part is right over there and this one's going to be 46

oops moved a little bit at the coldest setting it'll be about 49.6 degrees Fahrenheit. So that's pretty much it with the windmill air conditioner. Again

this is 6000 BTUs. He's a little remote, very easy to use, very easy to control. And this is

one of the most cleanest, minimalist looking ACs that I've tested so far. If you're looking for

something beautiful, something that doesn't stand out or stick out too much, this is the way to go

It also does have those shutter covers that I didn't install, but I'm sure installing them would make it even look more low-key

On top of that, also protect it more so not a lot of heat escapes through here

which actually doesn't seem to as much compared to other ones I've checked out

Now there's a few downsides. First of all, it's going to be this over here

Usually the vents are here so you are able to control it. So if you want it to shoot a certain direction, you can

In this case, it's always going to shoot up. You can think of it as a good or bad thing

Bad because you can't control where it goes. Good because it'll basically cool the room upwards

But the other thing too that I noticed is here, a little loose over here

And I guess because of my window, I can't really screw this in very well

But yeah, that's basically it for the downsides. Again, if you're looking for something beautiful, something very minimalistic looking

definitely check out this windmill