frankmehta wants® 4 AirConditioners: General/Hitachi/Sanyo/Samsung??

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Not using rubber standoffs between the AC and the mount? Helps reduce the vibes to a large extent. Or I can't see the snaps clearly. :P

Hey you did not mention the damages for the units.
 
150 sq ft room: 1.5 ton FTKD50 Rs. 44000

145 sq ft room: 1.5 ton FTKD50 Rs. 44000

300 sq ft room: 2.2 ton FTKD71 Rs. 58000

90 sq ft room: 0.8 ton. FTKD25 Rs. 28000

No rubber mounts. Inverter units are quiet and vibrate less anyways, and I don't care much about the noise outside. The units are pretty far from the sleeping area.
 
xxjayxx said:
Daikin is one of the best AC manufacturer lil costlier thn others. U wont regret it.

Nice buy.
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maybe your lil is much LITTLE then our little

for me they are double then the products i bought last season, 1.5T for 24k
 
Desecrator said:
Not using rubber standoffs between the AC and the mount? Helps reduce the vibes to a large extent. Or I can't see the snaps clearly. :P

Hey you did not mention the damages for the units.
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Hey sorry I haven't seen closely myself. There ARE rubber mounts, very huge ones. LOL. My A/C guys are very competent and efficient!
 
We wired the AC's on Thursday evening and actually started using them yesterday.

Had the Ac's on for over 12 hours yesterday.

Have NO words to describe the silence with which they operate. They have ZERO noise in the room. Seriously. Daikins are known to be silent, but I never knew AC's can be so efficient at cutting decibels. It's pretty hard to believe. OF SPECIAL NOTE is the fact that outdoor units are SO silent that you wouldn't even know that they are on. Really!! Hard to believe that Daikin over-engineered their ACs that even their outdoor units (for whom it's ok to be little noisy, since they are actually outside) to be SO silent. Wish I had a Decibel meter to measure the noise they produce. Really commendable.

About their cooling. I have 2 words: Monster. And Monster!!

The speed with which it cools the room IS COMMENDABLE. It's powerful mode takes 2 - 3 minutes to cool a 150 sq ft room and make it pretty chilled within 5 minutes.

Super efficacy, VERY VERY fast. The sensor in the AC senses the no. of people in the room and adjust the vane angles of the up-down and side-side louvers (both of which are power operated and operate in tandem to give a 3D airflow) to point the flow where the people are. It works. The sensor also senses the no. of people in the room and ups the airconditioning if there are more people. Leave the room and when you come back you sense a slight drop in the cooling, since it drops the cooling when it senses that no one is inside. Good energy saving technique, but not helpful when you expect a CHILLED room when you come back. For that you can always keep the sensor off when you leave the room. Then it will operate at full potential and keep the room as chilled as you want it to be, but at the cost of power savings.

Also, a characteristic about Inverter ACs. The compressor NEVER cuts off. It just varies it's speed according the amount of cooling required. Hence, there are times when a 2.2 ton AC will operate EVEN AT 0.8 ton load if the sensor detects that no one is in the room, or cooling has been established. This ALWAYS ON nature of the compressor might lead someone to think it consumes more power, but in reality, it does consume considerably less power than conventional AC's that either operate at 2.2 ton load or just operate in fan only mode once cooling is established. Also, the amount of current drawn is considerably reduced, since the compressor cut-off and switch-on regime of conventional ac's is not present. So is the reduction of load and stress on electrical components which is a large factor when the compressor turns on and pulls a huge amount of current. This, in turn, reduces stress and increases life of components.

It's a win-win situation, Inverter ACs. Just the upfront cost is a little exorbitant. But factor in power savings and lesser maintenance cost due to less wear and tear of components due to absence of the stop-start cycles and it all starts making sense.

I am happy with the Daikin Inverter AC's and recommend them to everyone who wants to spend upfront but makes savings over the years.

Let's say I give them a 5* rating and thank everyone who suggested them to me. Really good decision made.
 
i own 2 national 2 tons for 10 years now - jap imported split units , i know how you feel :) -- enjoy the cooling and the experiencing

when i go to my colleagues houses with their splits i cringe at the noise - sensitive ears dont help either ....
 
Can frankmehta tell me why he dropped (what was lacking in) the Hitachi and Mitsubishi in favour of the Daikins?
 
Because the Inverter model was available at this price only from Daikin. Also, mitsu doesn't have a 2.5 ton model. Nor does Hitachi. Daikin has a 2.2 ton model which was exactly what we needed.
 
frankmehta said:
Have NO words to describe the silence with which they operate. They have ZERO noise in the room. Seriously. Daikins are known to be silent, but I never knew AC's can be so efficient at cutting decibels. It's pretty hard to believe. OF SPECIAL NOTE is the fact that outdoor units are SO silent that you wouldn't even know that they are on. Really!! Hard to believe that Daikin over-engineered their ACs that even their outdoor units (for whom it's ok to be little noisy, since they are actually outside) to be SO silent. Wish I had a Decibel meter to measure the noise they produce. Really commendable.
About their cooling. I have 2 words: Monster. And Monster!!
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The specs say around 40dB, if you consider a normal conversation is about 50dB.

Thing is how loud is the area you are in to begin with ?

frankmehta said:
Good energy saving technique, but not helpful when you expect a CHILLED room when you come back. For that you can always keep the sensor off when you leave the room. Then it will operate at full potential and keep the room as chilled as you want it to be, but at the cost of power savings.
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Which also kinda kills the idea of going with an inverter in the first place ;)

frankmehta said:
Also, a characteristic about Inverter ACs. The compressor NEVER cuts off. It just varies it's speed according the amount of cooling required. Hence, there are times when a 2.2 ton AC will operate EVEN AT 0.8 ton load if the sensor detects that no one is in the room, or cooling has been established. This ALWAYS ON nature of the compressor might lead someone to think it consumes more power, but in reality, it does consume considerably less power than conventional AC's that either operate at 2.2 ton load or just operate in fan only mode once cooling is established.
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So long as its sucking out moisture from the air at those low speeds good, otherwise....

frankmehta said:
Also, the amount of current drawn is considerably reduced, since the compressor cut-off and switch-on regime of conventional ac's is not present. So is the reduction of load and stress on electrical components which is a large factor when the compressor turns on and pulls a huge amount of current. This, in turn, reduces stress and increases life of components.
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Well, do you have something to compare with when your next electricity bill comes.

frankmehta said:
It's a win-win situation, Inverter ACs. Just the upfront cost is a little exorbitant. But factor in power savings and lesser maintenance cost due to less wear and tear of components due to absence of the stop-start cycles and it all starts making sense.
I am happy with the Daikin Inverter AC's and recommend them to everyone who wants to spend upfront but makes savings over the years.
Let's say I give them a 5* rating and thank everyone who suggested them to me. Really good decision made.
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As far as i'm concerned you've paid big bucks to have a better product so hope you enjoy it. You wanna brag about the quality, how well it works, features it has, how quiet and how reliable (it better be) it is.

I would not tout any savings made as a plus factor as its not going to matter too much thx to the stupid excise duty charged on the unit.
 
thank you frankmehta for letting us know about your purchase .

i also going to buy a 2Ton window ac in a few days . i am confused between hitachi and LG . The price difference is 8K!!! .Are hitachi ones really worth the 8K difference ?
 
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