r/AirConditioners

Looking for a 2 ton ac , budget of maximum 60k planning to buy in emi , Room : Hall + open kitchen of size 290 sq.feet with balcony on one side ,chennai heat ,Need Ac with no problems for long run.. Is these good ? From my learnings -

• this Panasonic AC has nearly 1.9 ton actual capacity but 3 star rating
• this carrier ac has 5 star rating but 1.7 ton actual capacity

Which one to choose from the two or Any other suggestions?

I’m looking to get a wall air conditioner for my bedroom since it’s a smaller room and a window ac won’t fit. I found this one on amazon that’s price is very very competitive but It seems too good to be true

Hello, my Mr cool split ac unit keeps freezing up daily. The self clean usually fixes the issue and we can keep using it, but I have a feeling this shouldn’t happen daily. Any idea why this is happening?

I’m planning to buy air conditioning for my house - 2x 3.5 KW split systems. One unit will be installed in the attic for cooling and occasional heating during winter. The second unit will be used to cool the upper floor.

The installer recommended the Midea Breezeless Plus and Breezeless E models. However, I also asked for a quote for LG DUALCOOL AI Air Deluxe units. The price difference is significant, so I wanted to ask if anyone knows anything about Midea air conditioners. This is my first encounter with the brand - apart from knowing that Midea has this special vent on the front, it’s a Chinese product and one of the largest manufacturers, I don’t know much about them. Or should I throw some extra cash for LG. I don’t need fancy features, other than easy wireless / app setup and reliability.

My swing out window is about 5 feet off the ground so I had the original Midea dual hose rising up and out the window. It was too short so I extended it with flexible hose. The problem is that when I roll down my roller blinds the hose is so fat that it interfered with the blinds. I took several months to design and build my own hose system and window panel. I'm pretty proud of what I did so I wanted to share some photos and the journey to get here.

I searched online for ideas and parts so I could build something that would work for me. I also wanted it to look nice since it is in my living room permanently all year since I have the Midea model that does cooling and heating. I couldn't find anything so I decided to make it from scratch.

I bought a 3D printer and learned how to design parts. The 3D printer can only print relatively small parts (less and 1 feet square) so it took many parts to complete this. I used PETG filament for the 3D printed parts since it can withstand the exhaust heat and UV light.

The dual hose:

- I made the hose to be as slim as possible (so my blinds can go over it, but the overall volume to match the original intake and exhaust hoses.

- The hardest part was making a piece to connect to the body of the air conditioner, then making a smooth transition backwards towards the window so that the blinds can roll down as far as possible. The design of the pieces weren't a perfect fit, so I made some extra fittings, lined them up and bonded them together. In the end, the hose fit the air conditioner body perfectly.

- I made the outside vents so the exhaust air vents upwards and the intake vent faces down, since I didn't want hot air to enter back in the intake vent. This wouldn't be good in the rain, but works for me because my vents are covered overhead by my swing out window and the whole window opens out to a covered balcony.

- I noticed the original Midea hose has a grid on the intake hose so I made a honeycomb grid for the intake and exhaust vents.

- I printed some mounting brackets so I can use the original screw holes to mount the hose to the body of the air conditioner. I epoxied the bracket onto the base of my hose but I ended up not putting the screws in since gravity was holding it on pretty well.

- I experimented on how to combine all these 3D printed parts. I think there was over 20 pieces. Most of the pieces took over 12 hours each to print. To glue them together, I tried superglue, epoxy putty, wood putty, liquid epoxy, and bondo. I found the best was liquid epoxy to hold the pieces together and bondo to fill the seams and other imperfections. Then lot of sanding, primer and spray paint.

The window panel:

- I'm on a upper floor of a high-rise condo, since my window opens to my balcony, I have access to working on the outside so I decided to make a dual panel for my window.

- I put one acrylic panel on the outside. I 3D printed a rectangle trim just large enough to fit the window opening, then screwed the outside panel to the trim. I put acrylic panel on the inside of the window and also screwed that to the 3D printed trim. So it's basically a sandwich of panels on the window casing.

- I cut an opening through both panels to match the shape of my hose. I 3D printed a trim piece to go between the two panels to mount the intake and exhaust vents as well as the main body of the hose.

All done:

- I finished about a week ago.

- I've only used it for a few hours, but so far it works great!

- My wife didn’t say anything when I installed it. She thinks that I bought it that way. I made it in my parents’ garage, a little every time I visited. She didn’t want me to buy a 3D printer so I didn’t say a word about it while I worked on it for many months.

- I'd love to hear what you think.

So this is my room, and for some reason they have these weird windows that go from the floor up top, and don’t open. My house doesn’t have central AC, only heat, and it absolutely sucks to sleep especially with it getting 90 Fahrenheit where I live.

So i’m trying to get the cheapest option that works good, and I though of a mini split but that would run me 3-4k because of my house layout, and my breaker is on the opposite side of the house. Another option I considered is cut a hole in the wall, (note third and second pic), which would be much cheaper though not sure if it’s load bearing or not.

Now another option I could think of is somehow modify the window so I can run a portable ac heat duct out of it, thoughts? I’d like to sleep in my room without sweating my balls off, thanks guys

I know the issue is that the water filling up is triggering the sensor that I'm holding in my hand and it's turning off the central air. I have maintenance able to come in a couple days but having to manually suck out water with a vacuum is my only solution at the moment. What can I do with this?

This is the current wiring situation for the machine. The issue is the building runs on a two pipe system and is currently set to cooling but my duct will only blow out hot air.

The super came in to check whether it is a compressor issue but everything is working correctly. The strainer for the compressor is not clogged either.

I am unable to check if the electrician has incorrectly wired this because the wire colours don’t match the colours shown in the nest install guide

EDIT - this is a 4th Gen model.

This has been happening for about a week now around 10AM-2PM. I got on the roof and checked to see if any debris was falling onto the air conditioner and there is nothing outside. I assumed it was that because it would not do this at night ever. So confused

LG LW6017R
I opened the unit up to clean everything out today and this piece fell out of the back. Can someone please tell me where it goes? It looks like it goes around one of the copper tubes but I don't know...there's a matching one on a pipe in the front.

Thanks!

Please don’t mind the cat fur lol, my guy is super fluffy.

So it’s getting pretty hot where I am, and I want to turn on my AC (I’ve had it for three years). But there’s this stuff inside of it, and for my safety and the safety of my cat, I haven’t turned it on in fear that it could be black mold. My mom is pretty convinced it’s mildew and I’ll be fine, but I don’t know, I just want to be sure.

How would I go about cleaning this? Or is it a total loss? The gunk is all up in there, and I’m at the point where I’d rather get a new one, but don’t want to in the case that this is salvageable. It is usually on, at most, 8 months of the year because I get hot super easy. But because of the gunk in there, it’s only been on 4 months last summer and I haven’t turned it on since.

This is my appartement fronts door, which is the principal door, i heard it could break the window but it unsure. I don’t really have any other possibilities other than that because I’ve only got a patio door window and a vertical window