I installed a new AC today, and I kinda started laughing
its a 60lb steel box. They give you those polystyrene accordion folding panel bat wings extensions to help it fit in a window. Its preposterously weak. To me it feels like putting a set of tinkerbell holoween butterfly wings on a raging bull. I feel like they have NO SHAME in their design department.
If the air conditioner weighed like 10lbs, OK, maybe. But to add that to a 60 pound steel box you can barely lift properly with 2 people, come on. No one improved on this for like 30 years. It lets bugs in, you need 500 feet of tape to seal it, and it will destroy your window sill from condensation.
no shame I tell you. They don't even make it polystyrene rectangular tubing with end caps, instead, its polystyrene angle pieces, about 3/32 thick.
![WTF? :wtf:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/wtf2.gif)
![](https://images.nightcafe.studio/jobs/oBAstDUx0PrHIekq4rDA/oBAstDUx0PrHIekq4rDA--1--38fzj.jpg)
and you know what happens when you actually put it into the window. its like the raptor pit in jurassic park.