Boring AC questions - please advise!

chAos

Ahh, the ever-useful placebo effect.

OK, thanks Capt & Ed.

Cosmic Sprite

Hiring is approx. 5000-8000 depending on tonnage for the 'season' - usually till about Sep./Oct. Bear in mind, however, that the units hired out are usually not brand new and chances are it might be a noisy one; also, the older the unit the more electricity it will consume, but this might only be marginally more.

Nick-H

Mr Ed... If you send me the postage, I'll try to capture an envelope of cool air for you .

Honestly, I don't know how you manage. I could sweat my way through the days if I had to, but the nights without AC in the summer would be just awful!

MrEd

Thanks for the offer Nick. Unfortunatly I think I'll need more than an envelope worth to get me through May to September!

I've been doing some 'off-line' research into it and reckon I'll have to plump for a cooler.

A mate of mine has just bought one for about 4000 and as has been mentioned, it doesn't really cool the room, but if you sit right in front of it you get a nice cold breeze blowing at you. I reckon if I position myself in front of one of them then I'll be able to survive the summer! As for the humidity in a few months, I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

I've also read that coolers use just 10% of the electricity that AC does, which not only saves a load of money, but the environment too! Don't want to sound too sanctimonious though, cos I'd probably be getting AC if I could afford it!

crvlvr

Do keep in mind, that all your best laid AC plans will come to a grinding halt when the power goes off.

shashank.aggarwal

When you got for a cooler, do not go for a room cooler..they are the worst types..got for a big, metal cooler, desert cooler. You won't get it branded, however they are locally made. But they are very effective, We use few of them in our house and in scorching afternoons they actually do wonders. *When its not Humid.

The sound and other factors depend on the maintenance and the quality. Heavy ones and well maintained do not trouble for decades. We have one going for more than 20 years, as silent as ever. We refurbish it yearly, with paint jobs and minor replacements.

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puchoo

i agree with shashank , the room coolers are not half as good but an interesting find was one by Bajaj electricals which has a ice chamber..

i am yet to see the unit and at the price (6000 if i recall correctly) ill prob never buy it but i guess the air is passed through this chamber to cool it even more and thus be more effective than a cooler

ofcourse not to forget the amount of extra ice one will have to start making...

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shashank.aggarwal

Most room coolers have something like that these days. I bought a room cooler few years back and even it has a facility to pun in ice...though I have barely used it.

paakhipardesi

I live in Southern Utah (high desert country), where the daytime temps can be 105-115 degrees for a good part of the summer (don't know what that is centigrade!) For reasons of economy, we have always had an evaporative ('swamp') cooler, as we did when we lived in Phoenix 40 years ago. They make the biggest part of the season relatively tolerable, other than 6 weeks or so in July/August, when it tends to be both hot and humid. I imagine that would be a major drawback in a monsoon country - would you get a temporary cooling-down during a rainstorm, or would it just make things worse?

My best technique for staying comfortable is just plain not to know exactly how hot it is - I don's watch the weather part of the news, I avert my eyes from those time-and-temperature signboards outside the bank and I don't permit anyone to discuss the topic with me.

puchoo

115 = 46 C

Your peak is our average!


A temporary rainstorm can make the humidity factor go through the roof.

ebby

Go for split A/c. It is convenient, easy on the ear , can be mounted anywhere unlike a window unit, no alterations to be made except for entry of duct, and not likely to be redundant in the near future like a window unit. Its around Rs.22000/- as compared to Rs.17000/- for a widow unit , worth every extra buck you pay!

puchoo

how does a window Ac get redundant?...if u move into a house with no windows?

ebby

Demand for window units are dipping so maybe phased out ,anyway thats my perception !

puchoo

Thats actually pretty interesting, curious to know whether it is...do u have a link to the article which you might have read...?

shashank.aggarwal

I don't agree that demand for window AC is going down..anyone who has a opening in a room, still goes for Window AC, for me its lot less hassle than split.