For those of us who enjoy designing rooms, here's one of mine, tell me what you would do with it:
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So, back to the original question; it sounds like the condo scenario is limiting your choices about AC. A ChillKing 2 Ton chiller would fit in the window, look like any other AC (because it is) and will never smell. It will also cool 4 open and unvented bulbs, dehuey and chill RDWC water with no additional equipment to buy- and its the least expensive option in terms of operating cost.
What to cool?
This is a cylinder made of field fencing and hung from the ceiling. It's 4' tall and made of two half pipe sections 6'3" long, this makes the cylinder exactly 4' in diameter, or perfect distance from a vertical thouie hanging in the middle.
I'm running one 27 gallon tub site under each half of the cylinder, but to cut down on veg time you could easily run four, six or even 8 plants per cylinder.
Why? No matter how you slice that room up, unless you can levitate you will not get more than 140 ft² of actual growing space in there because of the need for aisles and access. The inner surface of each cylinder is pi x diameter x height = 3.14 x 4' x 4' = 50 ft²... and they fit great in a 6' x 6' footprint, for a total of 200 ft² of ACTUAL growing surface area- not bad for a room with less than that in total square footage.
This is a shot of two such cylinders, these plants were not vegged with the intended aim of going vertical, but they're adapting nicely!
This gives you four growing areas, all easily accessible from all sides while you stand and walk around like normal people.
Four open bulbs isn't as taxing on AC and the light bill, and from personal experience I can tell you that no fixture beats any other fixture out there, every time if you can take full advantage of 360 degree lighting- and of course this can.
I've had many people say I can get up to four pounds per cylinder- but I think the ultimate potential of cylinders like these is closer to twice that with learning time, dialing in and vegging plants so their shape takes full advantage of the vertical trellis. Soooo, that's between 16 - 32 pounds, depending on which numbers you like.
Leaving the vertical bulb inside the cylinder stationary will cost somewhat in ultimate yield, I'm working on a simple (read; easily DIY for my friends!) light mover to raise and lower the lamp inside 3-4'. Another lighting option that's a little further out there involves a
Gavita remote ballast running a splitter and two Greenpower 600W EL bulbs. Since both ballast and bulbs are the same 400V standard, this plus the 1150W overboost should run them perfectly! This would make for the most efficient HPS lighting setup currently available, for about $600 with Internet pricing. My shop wanted another $100 and for the warranty/ replacement issue peace of mind, I'd spend it.