Cooling and heating with a split air conditioner or multi split air conditioner

Even though this summer is not the hottest in years, the need for cooling in the home remains. To keep the temperature bearable in living room, bedroom people are looking at an air conditioner. The first choice is between a portable and a split air conditioner.

The simplest model, of course, is the mobile air conditioner. You can set these up wherever you want as a stand-alone unit. But there are many disadvantages to it. It is quite a rather bulky thing and it works much less efficiently and has lower cooling capacity than a split air conditioner. Also, you have to hang a thick flexible tube out of a window to exhaust the hot air, so you have to carefully seal this opening because otherwise a lot of especially hot outside air will flow into your house. The Consumers' Association therefore explicitly advises against buying a mobile air conditioner.

What is a split air conditioner?

A split air conditioner literally splits the air conditioner in two: into an indoor unit and an outdoor unit. You place only the part that provides cooling inside the house, and this has a compact housing. While the ungainly part that dissipates the heat stands or hangs outside. Windows and doors can therefore remain closed, giving you much more efficiency. Also, the outdoor part makes the most noise, very nice to get rid of that. Both units are connected via pipes through which refrigerant flows, so a hole must be drilled in the outside wall.

What is a multi split air conditioner?

With a standard split air conditioner, you cool a single room, which requires one indoor unit and one outdoor unit. In practice, there are often several rooms that need to be cooled and then you end up with the multi split air conditioner. It still uses one outdoor unit, only this time you can give multiple rooms their own indoor unit. It is therefore important that the rooms where the temperature needs to be lowered by a few degrees are identified in advance. This way, you not only know how many indoor units you need, but you can also choose an outdoor unit with sufficient cooling capacity and connections.

Cooling and heating

With an air conditioner these days, you can not only cool but also heat. Once the weather turns colder, the indoor units can make the room(s) where residents mainly stay comfortably warm without heating the rest of the house. This in turn saves on heating costs because you only heat the room where the dispensing system hangs. A modern air conditioner has a much higher efficiency, making it a lot cheaper than heating with a boiler anyway.

However, you cannot cool and heat at the same time, although there are systems for that too, intended for larger buildings. Fortunately, most multi-split air conditioners allow you to adjust the temperature in each room. Not unimportantly, besides cooling and heating, an air conditioner also cleans the air by filtering out things like dust, pollen, smoke and even foul odors. How fresh!