LG LW6017R 6,000 BTU Abysmal Air Conditioner
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- This is one of the most, if not the absolute most, abysmal air conditioners I've ever operated--the LG LW6017R 6,000 BTU "room air conditioner". I've never liked LG appliances, this one is no exception.
This is, like most appliances today, electronically controlled. Electronic controls are not my preference, but there are cases where they're at least designed well and provide a decent user experience. This control set is awful. Too many buttons, too many indicators, and too much delay! Several seconds pass before the machine executes the command entered.
The unit is loud. The controls are loud, the fan is loud, the compressor is loud, it's all too loud! What an awful impeller design for this application. Had they used a conventional squirrel-cage blower wheel, it would have been half as loud.
The unit is constructed almost entirely of plastic and Styrofoam, with nothing between the outside and inside besides one thin piece of foam. It's so thin you can see light through it.
R32 refrigerant? No thanks. What an awful refrigerant.
The unit ran and cooled (eventually), but it did so very poorly. This is a completely unsatisfactory air conditioner and likely won't last more than 1 or 2 seasons before something fails, most likely the coils.
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I wish I had found your channel before I bought this. I did only pay just over 100 for it. I use it in my shed, so it does OK there. I can't believe this thing was made with Styrofoam. I have had it since 2018, and it still works, but I don't keep it on except when I need it for a few hours at a time. I did try it in a bedroom when I first bought it, but it was too loud! It did cool good, but it felt humid. Also you cannot seal it up to where bugs will not get in. Who the hell wants bugs?
Good ac unit.
I have the exact same unit and its been 3 years and I have no issues. I'll save you all the trouble before blaming it on a lousy ac unit, which this is not. I'll take you from unboxing to enjoying a nice cold room in the summer. These steps apply for all window ac units, no matter if its 5,000 Btu or 14,0000 Btu.
Step 1. Make sure the window opening is big enough.
Step 2. Make sure your air conditioner is installed in such a way that its rear is tilted downward by 10mm (0.39in) to 15mm (0.59in) so that indoor condensed water can smoothly flow to the rear or else you'll get water inside your room.
Step 3. Seal the sides and bottom with foam weather seal so the hot air and bugs and insects from outside aren't getting through.
Step 4. Most likely there is a gap from the top of the ac unit and the top of the window frame if it is a horizontal sliding window like mine. So get a piece of wood or plexi glass and seal that gap.
Step 5. Plug in your air conditioner and enjoy.
Now, maintenance.
Really simple, you need to check the filter at least every few days to make sure it's not dirty. The dirtier it is, the less efficient it becomes. If you don't want to check the filter that often then the ac unit has a light that lights up and stays on until you clean the filter. Then after you clean the filter you can reset that change filter button. At the end of the season you can take the ac out of the window and clean the inside of it and have it run like new for the next season. But only if you are confident and have the skills to do so. You need to maintain your unit or you'll be complaining like this guy who posted this ridiculous video. Everything I just told you is gonna be in the instruction manual. Just read it folks. This guy here who posted the video clearly didn't read the instructions for his.
It's not my machine, I didn't buy it, I didn't install it. These are just observations from seeing it run. Too loud, doesn't get that cold, poor interface on the controls, and like everything else today, simply not built to last more than a handful of seasons. I have air conditioners from the 1970s that still run, this won't last even 10 seasons. None of the ones made today will.
In the early 2000s when our central A/C burned out (it was undersized and really didn't work), we were in desperate need for air conditioning. We bought a few window units off of our neighbor who was buying up pallets from abandoned storage facilities. They air conditioner for my room was a brain dead, 6,000 BTU Kenmore (LG). The electronics were dead, so we just bypassed them. Eventually, I just had it run with a digital thermostat relay system. It occasionally did freeze up since it had nothing to monitor the coil temperature. After about 15 years, I replaced it with a new 8,000 BTU Frigidaire window unit with analog controls. Oklahoma summers can get pretty hot. The 6,000 BTU window unit still works. I just have it stored away for now. I'm not a big fan of digital because I'd rather operate them with external thermostats. The best way to do that is with an analog unit, but they are almost phased out.
Often times just detaching the thermostat from the coil and letting it hang a few inches out the front of the machine will make it completely accurate.
@@JordanU that’s exactly what I do with mine.
Oh wow that filter cleaning looks so easy!! Thank you for making this video!
You're welcome.
I have the GE version of this and it’s actually quite a decent machine. It is from 2005 with r22 And the way it’s designed keeps air from recirculating back into the evaporator. Had it for quite some time and it’s a solid workhorse
The ones in 2005 were made far, far better than this one is.
@@JordanU agreed.
I really dislike any A/C with Energy Star as with the units I had with it would never cool well below 70. If the outside temp was below the room temp, the compressor would never come on. It gets very humid in my area so it’s normal to run the A/C when it’s in the 50s here. If the compressor did come on, it would freeze into a block of ice. That said, I would wake up in the middle of the night in a disgusting pool of sweat. Went vintage and never looked back!
Any vintage machine will run circles around this piece of junk.
Their newer ones aren't great, but the older ones branded Goldstar were really good if taken care of. The fan is quiet for something modern, but the compressor is really loud, and that's stupid.
The noise level is better than some other designs, but if it doesn't cool well, who cares how quiet it is.
@@JordanU true
I wish ours came with that black plug in the back. We have no way to let the water drain out of ours. It was bought like 4 years ago or so and it’s filling with water too quickly this year and you can hear the fan blades splashing it around. It wakes me up at night. Why wasn’t ours made with that same black plug to remove??? I see it on the back of the one you’re servicing but it’s supposed to be removed so the water can drain properly. So the person that owns that one would probably have better performance if it was removed for them. Just letting you know. Mine doesn’t have it nor is there one on the bottom that I can see. I just put like five lines of yarn to hang out the back and wick the water to drip out instead. Stupid set up with no drainage on my unit!!! 😢
Just drill a hole in the bottom of the pan to let the water out. It will last a lot longer without the water. All my machines are set up to drain, this was not my unit to modify.
LG makes these units really cheap, if you want quality from LG you'll need to go up to the 8000 btu. The GMCC rotary compressor is used in most air conditioners, or a Quingan compressor. Most new air conditioners are just Midea units with different styrofoam and a different front.
From my experience, Midea is the best of the junk made today. I've never had good results with any LG appliances, air conditioners and others.
@@JordanU In Hong Kong, most air conditioner are just oem by Midea and Gree. Midea A/C have the worst quality, e.g. defected thermostat, fan bearing easy to worn out, spilt A/C easy to leak refrigerant. I heard an Engineer from Johnson Controls said that a technican in Dubai has been killed during repair a York Spilt A/C, they didn't notice a Live wire has been shorted on the compressor discharge pipe and melted. When they switch on the power, the technican get shocked, that York spilt A/C also made by Midea. Gree A/C quality is better but need take a long time to cool down the room. So I would be only choose Panasonic, Hitachi, Daikin, Mitsubishi A/C because they still made in thailand, Philippine or Malaysia and have good quality.
LG actually used to be good in the 1990s. When I was on vacation I spotted an LG minisplit system from around the 1990s and to my surprise it was still working just fine. Try and find a 1990s LG air conditioner.
I have the same model, I use the dry mode on humid days, it works very well, takes all the humidity out of the room, and then I put it on cool while I’m home and energy saver while I’m out
On all window units you're supposed to clean the filter weekly. Also you have to make sure it's slightly tilted so the water runs out of the unit outside of the house. Otherwise you get codes and it will turn itself off
Nobody cleans the filters weekly. I don't know what codes you're talking about.
@@JordanU That's a shame you don't understand how to read a manual, and you put the filter back in wet. The unit sucks in from that side, that's why there's a filter there, now it's sucking in water, I'm sure that's good for the intake. No wonder you're having problems with it. Not to mention the fact that it's not designed for that sized space. Perhaps you should do more research before purchasing, and then complaining.
@@spacedefector Why are you so angry?
@@JordanUI clean my filter weekly…the machine tells me it needs cleaned about once a week. I use toilet paper to wipe it off.
@@burningbright5039 I always commend routine maintenance, but that just seems excessive to me. I don't even see anything on the filter after a week of operation with my machines.
Good video in a 6,000 btu air conditioner glad you got this filter cleaned I enjoyed the video bro
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Looks better than the Toshiba from Lowes we bought. Looks like yours was dirty and choking. Live on the east coast?
I have one of these from 2020, it is definitely not 6000 btu even though it is rated for it. It’s more like a 5000 btu, no drain hole unlike this one, they must’ve added that.
The ratings are really getting fudged compared to what they used to be, even 6,000 BTU today is not comparable to 5,000 BTU from 1980.
Mine doesn’t have a drain hole either. How do you keep yours from filling with water?? Ours keeps making splashing sounds waking me up at night cuz the fan is picking up water in the back and flinging it about😢 it’s really annoying!
It doesn’t drip out the back fast enough plus it’s rusting where it does drip back there. But it fills up too damn fast. My husband has to open the window and tip the damn thing sometimes just to get the water out. We definitely shouldn’t have to do that. It gets this slimy shit in there all along the bottom from water sitting and I have to spray it out with a jet hose once a year. I hate this air conditioner. But better than nothing😢
@@burningbright5039 drill a drain hole. Just make sure not to hit anything on the inside especially the refrigerant lines. Drilling a hole will make it last 2x longer and work much better.
Thank you for saving us a big headache
You're welcome.
I have this unit in my apartment, and it's started spitting out water from the top vent. I live in 500 square feet in south FL. On a regular hot day, this does not do great, and it's unbelievablly loud. Its also making some weird noise like a piece has broken. I'm at the mercy of my property management company and I'm stuck with thing.
Not good.
One of the ones I had was like that although it was analog (not digital), we scrapped it a few weeks ago.
The mechanical controls model is still junk, just less frustrating to operate.
@@JordanU The Mechanical control model lasted me a good 12 years, if not more.
@@CarnelianClout 12 years ago, these were made much better than they are now.
@@JordanU I do not remember what model year it was but it was always around since when I was a child, it may have very well been 15-20 years old. We had one of the same design but the brand "Zenith", that sat unused for many years, unsure if it was broken or not but the fins / holding part that holds it in the window was completely broken off and it had been rusted very much internally.
I have had better success than you with LG window ACs. I also found that a 5000 btu was too small for Texas summers for the bedroom, and had to move up to an 8000 unit. One LG 18k BTU unit has been working fine, since 2015, and I recently got a another same size unit to replace another brand that died. I don't recall its maker and it is long gone from the curb, but it only lasted 30 plus years. In the summer I will check the filters once a month or so, and clean them when they get a bit dirty. LG performance seems to take a hit when they are clogged, but I had assumed that was true for all brands. Do you find that LGs are more dependent on clean filters, and why are the larger compressors quieter?
I have quizzed salespeople at the big box stores in my area, and asked which brand they prefer, and they have all said "LG". Are they paid for those recommendations?
I wouldn't be surprised, hardly ever do any of those sales people actually have a clue what they're saying.
LG isn't high-end nor low-end. You said there is no battery and no information but it was there. And it's not Chinese it's Korean.
Cap
@@JordanU you can search it on Google.
I bought 2 of these last summer and neither one works this year. the lg 6000 is a joke
Garbage equipment.
I have to agree , but before I give it a toss I clean the filter but cannot find a way to remove the front cover and look inside , there's gotta be more to cleaning theese units than this
@@724riffthat I have to agree with, now Midea pretty much solved this problem with their U-shaped window unit. Now for some reason Jordan hates loud units and Midea solved it. The thermostat sensor has always been against the evaporator... Midea fixed that too. And to clean the evap, pop two tabs and you can clean everything inside. So with one unit Midea fixed loud noises, inaccurate temperatures, and the hassle of cleaning the evaporator.
I like it
OK
I don't.
mine has lasted me 3 years. It's always on, but then again I don't let it get caked with pet hair and human dander, nor do I rinse the filter off -- sort of -- and then put the filter back in dripping wet.
@@LifeAsANoun 3 years is nothing. A basic unit like this used to last 3 decades.
@@JordanU That would be 2050..
I guess that I'll see what's what then... So far so good.
It stick out to far and the outlet is facing upward.
love the Startup Sound on it bro i enjoyed the video
Glad you enjoyed it bro.
they can make 100x zoom phones, full self driving electric cars but not silent, inverter, window air conditioners.
The Haier Serenity Series conditioner is very quiet.
Which similar unit do you think is better?
The Hair Serenity Series.
The unit is too small for the area you are trying to cool you need at least an 8,000 bTu unit. Energy saver will cycle the unit on and off. Cool keeps the unit on constantly.
That's cap.
I have a haier air conditioner that looks almost identical to that one it even has the same fan but mine is a analog controlled unit
There is a variant of this still made with the mechanical controls. I believe it is sold under quite a few different names.
So what air conditioner would you recommend obviously this one is to f****** loud to have in your bedroom you're trying sleep
The Haier Serenity Series.
Also you put the filter back in wet which is what caused the code
I don't know what you're talking about.
@@JordanU Do you understand english?
@@spacedefector Why are you so angry?
Nice video
Thanks.
Landfill Garbage. That carrier of yours blows that thing out of the water
Indeed.
LG makes good LED televisions and washing machines... and not much else.
I found scrab daddy at the second start
That doesn't make sense.
@@JordanU yes I saw it when u were washing the filter
@@JordanU scrub daddy, you have one by the sink.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
@@JordanUur dumb
I just bought 3 and recently installed 2. I noticed they short cycle frequently. Is there a fix to this issue?
Sometimes the thermostat will be more accurate if you take the probe off the coil and let it hang outside the machine.
weird, there's 15,000 amazon reviews that say its good :/
Half of those people are probably paid for the review and the other half are people so stupid they can't tell a door from a tree.
@@JordanU Or maybe their experience was different than yours?
@@spiritsama51 Or more likely they're all paid or people that don't know anything about the equipment.
Never trust Amazon reviews. Amazon also removes 1 star reviews regularly. They actually blocked me from leaving reviews after I left a 1 star review about a broken item I received
Can you do a initial checkout on AT&T CRL32102 Jordan?
If you'd like to provide one, sure.
New garbage, As long as it’s cheap and not overpriced
I'm not familiar with the price of these units.
Should be LB: Life's bad
No no no don’t touch that
I don't understand.
I just installed a cheapo Danby 6000 btu and i am impressed as far as cooling and quietness!!
OK
I think ge has a worse ac
OK
Lmao You're not supposed to keep the drain hole plugged up. Why do you think the bottom of your coil is rusted? Most of us install a drainage pipe in the drainhole Or it drainage tube. That's what it's there for.
That's cap.
@@JordanU You're cap
Next time spend a little more if you want a more satisfying a/c.
It's not mine.
@@JordanU Then stop complaining about it
@@spacedefector Why are you so angry?
I learned the hard way,lg products are really bad
I agree, their products are awful.
If you wash the filter, you MUST allow it to dry thoroughly, prior to reinstall... Rookie operator error, don't blame the unit if you don't understand English
Putting the filter back wet, which probably dried within 5 minutes with all the air flow in there, has nothing to do with any of my complaints about the machine.
lg lousy garbage
Indeed
its annoyingly loud
I agree.