It depends on the climate and how well your home is insulated.A good rule of thumb is about 20 BTUs per square foot.
Before purchasing a portable air conditioner it is important to determine how big of an area you want to cool. After you determine that, you can choose the correct size that you need because an incorrectly sized portable AC with insufficient or excess BTUs will result in inefficient cooling.
A small room is about 5,000 BTUs. Most people don't have a room that would require more than 10,000 BTUs.
Perhaps the highest btu available in a portable air conditioner is 14000 BTUs. The air conditioner that has this high btu is the Sunpentown WA-1410H, which is portable.
You will need a portable air conditioner that offers 24,000 - 25,500 BTUs to cool a room of about 1500 cubic feet. This is a large sized room and a 2.5 ton unit would cool that area.
A BTU is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree Fahrenheit (F) at or near 39.2 degrees F and 1 atmosphere of pressure. Electric heaters are rated in KW, not BTU's 3413 BTU's = 1 KW-hr. Check the link below for a PDF on water heater sizing.
With 28,000 BTUs, the Friedrich SL28L30* has the most BTUs.
4800 BTUs will 150 square feet.
yes in a way. block heaters heat the coolant in the block there for warming the block up. coolant heaters heat the coolant out side the engine like in the hoses and radiater. and when the coolant gets hot enough it opens the thermosate and starts flowing through the engine..The coolant heater should be hooked into the engine so that it heats only the engine and the heater core. If the coolant heater is trying to heat the radiator then it will not work very well to heat the engine, you would need a lot of BTUs to heat the radiator as it will shed all that heat to the air that is surrounding it.
An HVAC system is rated in British Thermal Units (BTUs). For example, a 2-ton air conditioning system is 24,000 BTUs. That's 12,000 BTUs per ton. So a 3.5-ton air conditioner is a 42,000 BTUs.
90,000 BTUs - the 090 is what tells you the BTUs of the unit.
Determine the SEER rating of the HVAC system. The SEER rating is usually provided by the manufacturer and is a measure of the system's energy efficiency. Find the total cooling capacity of the HVAC system in BTUs (British Thermal Units). This information is also typically provided by the manufacturer and can be found in the system's specifications. Plug the SEER rating and the total cooling capacity in BTUs into the formula: Tonnage = (Total Cooling Capacity in BTUs) / (SEER) For example, if you have an HVAC system with a SEER rating of 16 and a total cooling capacity of 48,000 BTUs: Tonnage = 48,000 BTUs / 16 SEER Tonnage = 3 tons
There are at least 5 different definitions for slightly different BTUs. One of them says that 1 kWh = 3412.14 BTUs. Let's use that one. 1 kWh = 3412.14 BTUs 12 kWh = 40,945.68 BTUs