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  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 years ago
    Way of Topic for a bike forum but cheers for your help 
    I'm getting split system quotes for a granny flat, one room 6mt x 4mt full Besser block walled room under my house ( coolest room in the house ) 
    No sun gets into the room 2mt High ceilings insulated.
    2 quotes say 5kw systom Daikin 
    2 quotes say 2.5 Kw system Daikin 
    Just rang Harvey norman for my 5th quote and asked about a Mitsubishi they recon if the system is to big 5kg over a 2.5kg it will make the room go moldy ???
    My questions are.
    Is Mitsubishi any good 
    Is a 5kg system in a small room a bad thing? 
    Any extra advise would be awesome 
    House is beach side in cairns 

    Thanks heaps 

  • steelo
    steelo
    4 years ago
    I'd help but you've been mean to me.
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 years ago
    Quoting steelo on 07 Feb 2020 03:36 AM

    I'd help but you've been mean to me.

    Is that avatar your bike steelo 
  • Mr.Mow
    Mr.Mow
    4 years ago
    Better to have a small system running at capacity than a big system that’s not required, they’re more efficient that way. I’m not a mech engineer but I did work in an engineering firm for 10 years doing their marketing, I picked up bits n pieces.
    Mitsubishi are fine, daikin domestic are ok but expensive (and our domestic market stuff is made in Thailand and several generations behind the latest Japanese systems).
    Stick to a name brand and it’s hard to go wrong, it’s the cheap shitty no name Chinese things to be worried about.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    4 years ago
    Quoting steelo on 07 Feb 2020 03:36 AM

    I'd help but you've been mean to me.

    Quoting bloodog on 07 Feb 2020 03:45 AM

    Is that avatar your bike steelo 

    He wishes it was....
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    4 years ago
    Quoting steelo on 07 Feb 2020 03:36 AM

    I'd help but you've been mean to me.

    Ha Ha ....would a cuddle help?
  • Ken in Cairns
    Ken in Cairns
    4 years ago
    Mitsubishi, they are the best for stopping the Geckos getting into the CPU and frying it.
    I can get you the number of the guy that just replaced my dead Fujitsu.
    Pm me if you want his details.
    Have a cheap guy who does the cleaning if you need him too.
    At least every other year, works for me.

  • Kris78
    Kris78
    4 years ago
    This is from my bro inlaw who is an aircon tech 
    I'd use a 3.5kw If it is a very cool room. Maybe a 5kw if it was a real sunny room. 

    No unit will make the room get mouldy. But air conditioners that never get much fresh air and sunlight tend to get mouldy inside quicker 
    And Mitsubishi are good. I'd use a daikin in a room like that. I know they have filters that can help with mould in some cases. 
  • wello
    wello
    4 years ago
    https://www.canstarblue.com.au/appliances/air-conditioners/
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 years ago
    Wow thanks for all the tips I have messaged Ken noted all the advise 
     Wello your tats are awesome 
    And Stello its an on honor just to be on the same forum as you 
  • Soapbox2627
    Soapbox2627
    4 years ago

    I have 2.5Kw panasonics (inverter) in two bedrooms, mine and a guest room, they easy keep 22C even on our warmest days

    8Kw panasonic (inverter) in my main living area lounge, dining, computer and kitchen great heating and cooling big area

    8Kw panasonic (inverter) in the games room, 30x20 shed, lined and insulation in all walls and roof, cools down the space in 10 minutes, on the hottest days

    our summers range from mid 30's to highs around 48 - 49 (BOM) low 50's under the carport


    the swampy on the roof dont get run very often or at all really

  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 years ago
    Quoting Soapbox2627 on 07 Feb 2020 10:57 PM

    I have 2.5Kw panasonics (inverter) in two bedrooms, mine and a guest room, they easy keep 22C even on our warmest days

    8Kw panasonic (inverter) in my main living area lounge, dining, computer and kitchen great heating and cooling big area

    8Kw panasonic (inverter) in the games room, 30x20 shed, lined and insulation in all walls and roof, cools down the space in 10 minutes, on the hottest days

    our summers range from mid 30's to highs around 48 - 49 (BOM) low 50's under the carport


    the swampy on the roof dont get run very often or at all really

    cheers Soapbox Whyalla Hu 
    Ex Port Augusta boy here Jypsy jokers were just starting up in our towns when I was just a young fella 
    I walked into The Angles dressing room and spued all over the floor in front of them all at the Westlands Hotel 
  • JFE
    JFE
    4 years ago
    My evap cooler works a treat on all bar two days a year ... though smokey weeks like we’ve had stuffed up my smugness recently. 
    I’d have to say it - a strength of this forum is the non-bike threads like this one. Cheers for sharing the lived experience. Too many things these days just have opinion, not experience.
  • Aunty X
    Aunty X
    4 years ago
    Quoting Ken in Cairns on 07 Feb 2020 10:37 AM

    Mitsubishi, they are the best for stopping the Geckos getting into the CPU and frying it.

    I can get you the number of the guy that just replaced my dead Fujitsu.
    Pm me if you want his details.
    Have a cheap guy who does the cleaning if you need him too.
    At least every other year, works for me.

    +1 . Told the same thing by a local installer on the Sunny Coast. The Heavy Industries model is the product he mentioned
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 years ago
    Well after about 7 quotes some $600.00 above others one suggested install 5kg system and plug it into a power point, highly illegal 
    One installer when quoting, I asked to look at a dead Daikin split in my house, he told me its not 5 years old and within a week came back and replaced the parts and 3Hr labor free of charge and now working awesome. Because of this and price an the house has already 6 Daikin splits,
    I went with a Daikin 5kg system, after all my looking around the Mitsubishi ( not Heavy industries ) was a stand out.

    Thanks for all the advise ....now to install SOLAR so over to read Pauls post a few more times

    Cheers HDF    
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    4 years ago
    Quoting bloodog on 22 Feb 2020 08:26 PM

    Well after about 7 quotes some $600.00 above others one suggested install 5kg system and plug it into a power point, highly illegal 

    One installer when quoting, I asked to look at a dead Daikin split in my house, he told me its not 5 years old and within a week came back and replaced the parts and 3Hr labor free of charge and now working awesome. Because of this and price an the house has already 6 Daikin splits,
    I went with a Daikin 5kg system, after all my looking around the Mitsubishi ( not Heavy industries ) was a stand out.

    Thanks for all the advise ....now to install SOLAR so over to read Pauls post a few more times

    Cheers HDF    

    I run a daikin and have not had a single issue from new....other than the power it uses...LOL
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