How to Choose Air Conditioners

The air conditioner is a great appliance to cooling your room, but choosing best air conditioner may not so simple if remembering so many different types, various brands, sizes cooling capacities of air conditioners in the market or store.



Deciding which is the best one for your needs is so difficult. But if you are considering several factors on how to choose the right air conditioner below, you will help to take decisions.

Selecting type

There are five general types of Air conditioner, The windows-units, portable units, Central-units, Package units, split-units and portable-units.

Each type has different effectiveness and efficiency, windows-AC and portable-AC is perfect for single room, it's inexpensive and efficient for cold down one room.

The packaged unit and the Central-AC units best for multi room usage and whole resident and commercial place with large size of coverage.

The spit-AC is the most popular model, it's have two individual units, one main unit in the room and one for the outside, with ability to cool down more than one room, very effective and affordable for home owner.

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Choosing Power (BTU’)

The most important when choosing an air conditioner is deciding how many BTU’ you need. BTU’'s or British Thermal Units , that number counting measurement of cooling capacity. More big BTU' number, the more space that can cool down.

For large room it requires more
BTU'’s than a smaller room. However, you shouldn't take oversized air conditioner, is less
effective and wasting your money. But choosing too small unit will never make the room cool.

Room Size

In order to take the right decision, it is important to calculate your room size. The BTU capacity is related to the size of the area that needs to be cooled. More big the room it needs more big BTU power. See this image of BTU calculation.



Energy efficiency

Air conditioner's energy eficiency is counted in EER or Energy Efficiency Rating. ranges from 8 to 11.5. The air conditioners with higher EER, more efficien in savings electric. Higher the EER also can reduce electric bill, but more high EER's rating in AC's, mean more expensive price.

Other feature

Another point of choosing air conditioner is its features, such as auto cooling, remote control and auto shut off. This additional feature can make you easy to set the AC,s. But each brand and model have their own innovatif feature.

Last Word

That was several factors of choosing Air conditioning system unit, make sure you select best affordable units, it will become a good investment for your home.