TURBRO Greenland 8,000 BTU Portable AC

I have had a Honeywell A/C unit rated for 450 sq feet for about 3 years. It has worked fine, but as I have a 500 sq ft apartment I decided to try to upgrade to get a cooler environment. I THOROUGHLY researched all of my options. As I have been experiencing allergies, I was excited to find the UV light filter on this model. I looked for other brands with this feature to compare, but all others were nearly twice the price/had a much higher cooling capacity than I needed. After much deliberating, I bought this unit rated for 600 sq feet thinking it would surely cool my small studio apartment. I was wrong Installation was easy enough and went very quickly, but that is where the ease ended. I read the manual and tried to get the unit working, but discovered a few of the buttons on the remote do not even do anything, and the touch screen style buttons are very finicky and have multiple functions—meaning if it interprets one press as two presses, you are now stuck in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit rather than just switching to fan mode. Not too big of an issue as I keep it in air conditioning mode exclusively. However, I did expect that the air conditioning would work better. I pressed the “turbo” mode on the remote (which is supposed to turn all functions to max in order to cool the room as quickly as possible). It was on turbo for three days straight and never hit the set temperature. I live in Southern California, so it’s only fighting maybe 85F outside. And I have my apartment divided in half by a curtain to even further make the area I’m trying to cool smaller. So maybe 200 sq ft. And it still couldn’t get down to temperature. The air coming out of the unit is cold, but it doesn’t seem to have enough force to circulate it. I ended up hooking up my older less powerful unit and it worked better. After a few days and some slightly cooler outside temps, I tried to work the Turbro unit again. This time I realized the major design flaw in the unit. The temperature gauge is located right where the cold air comes out. This means that all night while trying to sleep, the unit would turn on a/c mode then turn just to fan mode then back to a/c mode every 5-10 minutes as it would sense the cold air coming out, think the room was cold, turn off, realize it wasn’t cold, turn back on, etc. this was not a quiet process. What made it even more frustrating was that while most units display the actual temperature of the room, this unit only displayed the set point. I had to purchase a separate indoor thermometer to see what my room actually was. Even after multiple days of running set to 64F, the thermometer set maybe four feet away consistently reads 75-80 during the day. It may seem a great deal to get the UV and A/C in one, but save your money. Should have known it was too good to be true.