Ductless Air Conditioners
Choosing Ductless Air Conditioners And Making Best Use Of Them
There are many styles of ductless air conditioners to choose from, 200 BTU’s and up for residential, commercial sizes being much larger 7500 to 14,000 BTU’s. Depending upon your specific home needs, you can select the traditional window air conditioning unit that fits into a sash type window. Also available are the type that sits inside a room as a single unit and is vented outside through a window using a vent kit specifically for this purpose.
Other types are those that fit on a wall, just like your flat screen television, being vented outside through the wall. Some are like the ones you see many times in hotel rooms, placed under the window and vented outside through the wall. When looking for your room cooling unit, check out the free standing kind. No venting needed at all. This does away with open-window-security issues sometimes mentioned by consumers wanting to replace the traditional window air conditioner.
The smaller room units use ice and water to provide the cooling effect desired. This is sometimes referred to as the “oasis theory”, cooling one room to be in your comfort zone while closing off the rest. This is especially useful in the home without ducted air conditioning.
Commercially, the units are much larger and able to be used in restaurant kitchens for additional cooling, server rooms, warehouses, stores and offices. If one was working as a cook in a restaurant kitchen, it would be so much more comfortable with a portable unit to cool the kitchen without raising the power bill exorbitantly.
Many of these vent through the ceiling or window using large circumference accordion exhaust hose. These units will require a dedicated electric line. In server rooms, these types of air conditioners are used to keep the servers cool and operating at their peak performance. No one wants their computer service to go down due to over-heated equipment.
Another use for the ductless cooling units is in recreational vehicles. No need to use the main power from your vehicle’s power plant to cool the entire interior when perhaps lowering the ambient temperature by 12 degrees in just a smaller area, such as the bedroom area, would be sufficient. This would be the same for vacation mobile homes being pulled behind your truck or car.
Some folks have small vacation homes or cabins in the wilderness. These homes can use a cooling system such as this. No need, then, to go to the expense of full ducted central air to be used just a few weeks out of the year. Some models even provide options for heat, humidifier and Ionic air purifier too. That is one unit for all needs. You can’t beat that for convenience and comfort. One more idea for the use of these items of cooling is in a tightly sealed camp tent, if you have a power source nearby. Unorthodox, you might say, but camping doesn’t have to be totally uncomfortable.
If there is a remodel in your future, in your present home or even second vacation home, consider the cost of adding a heat pump and ducting to an existing dwelling. So much easier and much more cost effective would be the installation of your choice of one of the many ductless air conditioners available.