new A/C, very quiet - Event Date: 15 Apr 2018

Just replaced 13500 btu 1 speed loud factory A/C with a coleman mach 8 9,500 btu. Has a low and hi speed fan. Had it on low last weekend in
85 degree weather durning the day here in Florida and it kept it about 72 during the day. Best of all, I can finally sleep at night.

Yes, but even though our new ones have 2 speed fans, man are they loud. I had a neighbor wanting to fight with me because my ac was so loud it was keeping him up all jight.  He finally gave it up and left.  And I understood what he was saying. I wish there was a way to quit it down.  If someone has a good idea I would love to hear it.

I do the same as StephenH: run the fan on low. It's like a white noise generator and makes it easier for me to sleep.

I have been considering this, the 13k unit is loud and I've heard the 9.5 unit and it's a lot quieter. If I had to run it at night I would have done it by now, haven't had to yet. Cali nights are cool ,even in the deserts.

Having spent a couple of months at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, I can vouch for the very wide temperature swings between daytime and nighttime. I got there in August and my temporary duty. It was very hot during the daytime but I really appreciated my sleeping bag during the night. The last trip out, it was not nearly adequate as a front went through. It started raining so I spent the night near a team from a unit I was helping evaluate. Overnight, the temps dropped to freezing and in the morning there was ice all over everything. I was freezing since I only had the intermediate cold sleeping bag that wasn't so great as it had been issued to a number of Soldiers and was worn past the point where it should have been replaced. The team I was near had the newer sleep system with the Goretex covers. At least they were warm.

It really makes me appreciate the furnace in the R-Pod, even if I did have to figure out how to cover the noise. I use a fan plugged into one of the 12V outlets I installed to do that. If I have to run the AC in the summer, running the fan constant on low works since then it isn't cutting fully on and off and the compressor cycling is not nearly so obvious as the start and stop and the switching speeds of the fan when that happens.