Popsiclestix
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I assume this is one of those room units that exhaust through a cheap slingy type plastic tube outside? I have a 1 kW unit made by sharp in my room.
May I ask why you think the tube needs more insulation? Are you sure it is not just the sunlight shining directly on the temperature probe so that it is artifically inflating the temperature?
The VAST majority of expelled heat is carried in the moving air mass and very little is actually transferred to the exhaust tubing. I can go into first approximation calculations if you want, but I doubt you're getting even 5% reemitted back into the room. You're not likely to gain much by wrapping the exhaust tube of such a small unit.
It almost sounds like you have a leak somewhere along the tube.
May I ask why you think the tube needs more insulation? Are you sure it is not just the sunlight shining directly on the temperature probe so that it is artifically inflating the temperature?
The VAST majority of expelled heat is carried in the moving air mass and very little is actually transferred to the exhaust tubing. I can go into first approximation calculations if you want, but I doubt you're getting even 5% reemitted back into the room. You're not likely to gain much by wrapping the exhaust tube of such a small unit.
It almost sounds like you have a leak somewhere along the tube.