04-23-2006, 03:12 AM
Sam3, dunno about vertical units. But as for the part about too large of a unit for a certain size room, there are two possible reasons I can think of:
1) Obviously, you don't want to blow a fuse
2) You can actually end up cooling the room TOO quickly, and/or freezing to death whenever you turn it on. For me, this hasn't been a problem, though... I think that this would be an issue if I had gone from a 5000 to a 10,000+ BTU, but 5000 to 8000 really wasn't such a huge jump.
1) Obviously, you don't want to blow a fuse
2) You can actually end up cooling the room TOO quickly, and/or freezing to death whenever you turn it on. For me, this hasn't been a problem, though... I think that this would be an issue if I had gone from a 5000 to a 10,000+ BTU, but 5000 to 8000 really wasn't such a huge jump.