Portable Air Conditioners
- — 06 May, 2008 14:26
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Automatic de-icing: Automatically defrosts built-up ice on the heating coils of air conditioners.
BTU: Occasionally, portable air conditioners will provide a British Thermal Unit (BTU) rating instead of a kW rating on the box. This is a unit of energy used in the British and US air conditioner industries. One watt equals approximately 3.41 BTUs. (As with kWs, the more BTUs the air conditioner has, the bigger and more powerful it will be.)
Drip tray: Collects condensation or excess moisture from the AC system.
Ducted condenser: Expels hot air from the air conditioner out of a series of ducts.
EER: The Energy Efficiency Rating (EER) indicates how good an air conditioner is at turning electricity into cooling. Reverse-cycle air conditioners have two separate efficiency ratings for heating and cooling (heating in red, cooling in blue). Naturally, the more stars an air conditioner receives, the more energy efficient it will be.
Filter: Removes solid particles, such as dust and pollen, from the air.
Inverter: A specialised fan and motor system that cools and heats rooms at varying speeds for more efficient energy consumption.
kW: An air conditioner's output capacity is measured in kilowatts (kW). Kilowatts measure the amount of heat that will be removed (cooling) or added (heating) to the room/s in your house. As the kW rating increases, the size, weight and cost of the air conditioner generally increase as well.
Remote condenser: Expels hot air through a tube or hose, usually through a window.
Restart delay: Air conditioners are not designed to be turned off and immediately back on. So if the power is accidentally shut off, the restart delay function will safely start the air conditioner after a couple minutes.
Reverse-cycle: A function that lets air conditioners both heat and cool rooms.
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Comments
Anonymous
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Incorrect information
The person writing this does not understand how air conditioners work. You wil NEVER feel damp and humid when there is an oversized unit operating in a room. The process of cooling the air removes moisture from the air hence the requirement to drain away the condensate which is mentioned earlier. The downside to having an oversized unit is it will constantly be on and off to modulate the temperature resulting in in effeciency and overcooling the space.
The person writing this article has little understanding of what he/she is writing.
Bert
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Incorrect information
Measure a room in" cubic "metres (multiply the length by width). is wrong.That's square metres.!!!..... To measure a room for cubic metres, you need to multiply the length by width by the hight.
sarah jane
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This was a great help. Thank you.
Sam
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Great review. Will really help. Cheers!
carol
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i found the article very useful. yes, i noticed the cubic/square mistake, but it was a trivial compared to all the information that i learned.