Tue 27 Jun 2006
Unboxing the Amcor PLM14000E - In which I am easily distracted…
Posted by Lloyd Y. Asato under Poetics of Peet's
In which I attempt to evaluate the Amcor PLM14000E, practice the art of Unboxing and find that I really am easily distracted.
The “portable” Amcor PLM14000E arrived the other day battered and bruised by Brown but intact, mostly. I clear a section of the office. It is bigger than I thought it would be, Presh says that this is about the size of what she was expecting. The bottled water array is moved for the Unboxing event. I grab the camera…
I appreciate instructions like these. I really do. I would have ripped the top of the box open then slit down its side. I think that would have worked as well but I FTFM anyway. Notice the damage to the packing…
The unit weighs 34 kilos and the heat has made the box brittle? I try to lift it using the handles on the box but it does not want to. Is this more detail than is necessary for an Unboxing event? Discuss…
The unit looks okay. No cracks in the plastic, though the packing did not make it. It did its job and sacrificed. I now have to wait two hours so that the refrigerant can settle? I guess. It does not say but I will wait…
Presh tells me to shoot the unopened manual. I never read the manual unless it is written on the side of the box. I like to read external packaging and while I appreciate the zen of Apple packaging I am more entertained if not enlightened by MS packaging. Insert MS iPod packaging video here.
This is where it all goes wrong.
I have to wait two hours before plugging the unit in. So I Unbox the rest of the items for shooting. I play around to see how the bits likely fit together. This goes here. This fits here. I guess I need to extend this exhaust hose… whoa!
I pull the exhaust hose to extend it and it makes this Blue Man Group riff. The tone changing as I extend it. Cool. I bend and twist and extend and contract. This fricking rocks. I must film this but my camera and podcasting gear is not here. Everything stops, then the weekend and the trip to Tucson, then other projects and two hours has become a lot of days. I have not yet plugged in the unit cause I want to make my BMG video first.
Stay tuned…
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July 13th, 2006 at 3:59 pm[...] The Amcor PLM14000E portable air conditioner is designed to condition average-sized rooms up to 400 sq. ft. I set-up the unit in my office with an area of about 300 square feet. The set-up was simple and straight forward. You can view the Unboxing effort here. [...]
