yea..oredy bought hitachi air cond but the price is still affordable to me.. mayb its due to promotion

what's the current "good" brands for 2hp air cond? I am planning one for my living room....

I will suggest you buy inverter model.

Can be used at 25~27C for that area and not feeling too cold at night or raining day, from outdoor condenser fan speed can be follow indoor unit setting in temperature and fan speed.
R410a gas to help your room cold down as fast to compared the old gas R22 may take 2 hrs and used heavy load for waste energy and noisy at all.

Brand for inverter :
Daikin r22 - FTKD50FVM (30-45% save)
Panasonic S18MKH can be more cooling & used less electric for input watt 1470w at 5.27kw - 18k btu.
Hitachi x18cx more to compressor used twin Rotary compressor can be reduce vibration and noisy.
Mitsubishi electric starmex MSY-GE18VA for indoor and outdoor are very quiet at all, outdoor like no switch on, only indoor is used small type same as 1hp size.
Some like York, fujitsu, MHI is good also.

i have good experience with the panasonic inverters. they run well and power consumption is minimal if you set to 28° or so

here i have some specification of air cond from 1 - 2.5HP inverter type.

1HP


1.5HP


1.75-2HP


2.5HP



This post has been edited by kimsim: Jan 14 2011, 11:42 PM

nice sharing!

Wow... that chart do helps a lot..

yes great info. one question though: i read the EER is "unfair" to inverter units due to the way the testing is done (read on some aussie energy saving website from the gov i think). how to effectively compare them? from the comparison the Hitachi EER is through the roof - how is real life performance and consumption vs. the regular joe's inverter? do you have any data? that would be fantastic.

You can select the model HP and BTU / input watt = EER.
COP from KW BTU/Watt = Cop.
Don't choose the lower BTU and higher power input watt.
That is worst not cold and must be set to lower temperature and used higher fan speed.
That is consider energy wasted.

For example 5.2kw x 3412 = 17747 btu / watt = EER.
For cop 5200 / watt = cop.

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Added on January 13, 2011, 11:12 amEspecially in EER up to 13++ for your monthly bill just only Rm10-30.
Per 8 hours x 30 days and used 25C.
Cause the Gas R410a in 25C is consider very cold to compared the R22.
Is cannot get it event in daikin inverter R22 types.

This post has been edited by kimsim: Jan 13 2011, 11:12 AM

we can refer the air conditioner information from Singapore NEA http://els.nea.gov.sg/mels/aircon.asp



This post has been edited by maxguy: Jan 13 2011, 02:15 PM

I wanna share my home air cond in 4 ticks from Sg neea
It is very very save for energy.








This post has been edited by kimsim: Jan 14 2011, 11:36 AM

brother kimsim thank you for sharing the information, nicely done!

Looks like LG 1.0 inverter also not bad eh...hoho..

But LG compressor not so good not as long life.
For indoor unit blower motor have to replace any time.
Before buy have to think carefully first.

i'm actually using their inverter (listed under your 1.0hp list).. let's see how it fairs against all odds

Ya, LG inverter is quite high EER and 3D air function with quietest noise at 19dB.
Just only if they have improved previous problem then can be reconsideration.
It one power input watt at 670w is consider very saves.

Cause for previous non-inverter user half of facing the blower noisy and compressor not runing with not cold at all.

i.c , tks for the info. Let's just cross my fingers then..

savest is mitsubishi, hmmmmmm. lets say on about 8 hours per day, how much will cost per month ?

Set to 25C it is quiet enough cold to whole room and low fan.
For 8 hrs will be around 2< kw per day.

i had recently installed mit gc10vd.. after install it seems the aircond are ok.. and has cool air... but after few days.... once on the aircon.. it blinks the lite then shut off...then i had on and off the plug.. then its ok again.. works fine with cool air... but yesterday it was ok also.. got cool air.. but suddenly feel heavy gas smell ..and i switched off.. and the smell is gone.. today it is ok again.. no gas smell....

can this be gas leakage problem ? or any other issue ? it is new set.. and its like this now...aiiih