WHAT IS A DUCTLESS AIR CONDITIONER?

As its name implies, a ductless mini split system is a type of cooling and heating system that is

It doesn’t use or require ductwork. Think of a system that does away with all those bulky network of solidly fabricated tubes that run through your home’s ceiling, walls, or even floors and routed through different parts of your home, especially if you have a central air conditioning unit, using a baseboard heater, or utilizing a radiator system. With ductless mini split, you can ditch these ducts for good.

It is compact, which means it is designed small but performs just as good as any other system. Comparatively, it is actually more powerful, energy-efficient, versatile, cost-saving, and environment-friendly than any other traditional system.

The term “split” refers to the way a ductless mini split is designed with two separate but interconnected components—an outdoor compressor unit and an indoor evaporator unit, which typically, is also the air handler. If you’re wondering why most traditional ACs, like a window-type unit, are noisy and clunky, it’s because these systems are built with the compressor and the air handler packaged in one single unit that is mounted indoor. With ductless mini split, you are basically having a system where the typically noisy compressor unit is placed outside the house. What you’re installing inside is the compact, highly unobtrusive air handler.=

In a mini split system, the outdoor unit that is placed outside the house is connected to the indoor unit which is mounted inside your home by a set of piping and wiring systems that are usually passed through a small hole in the wall (usually just a 2 ½-inch hole or a 3-inch hole), linking both units as one single system. The pipes are usually the cooper tubing called line set or refrigerant lines, while the wires are usually the electrical wiring system connects the unit to a power outlet.

TYPES OF DUCTLESS AIR CONDITIONER SYSTEMS

Ductless mini split systems come with many advantages that you would not normally get from other types of systems. These exceptional benefits include the following:

With ductless mini split, you have a system that is flexible enough to be installed in any type of environment or application. Specifically, it enables you to take control of your comfort and energy costs by having the option to choose the temperature that you need in each room inside your home and turn on or off the system that’s not being used. By using a mini split system, you will be able to deploy a climate control system that you can use in two basic types of installation configuration:

As an individual system, a ductless mini split is best for targeted heating and cooling. Offering precise temperature control, you can simply use it to cool or heat a room, especially those specific areas where ductwork is not present, can’t be installed, or expanding it might be too expensive, not practical, or just entirely not possible. As a particular example, think of a garage, basement, attic, bonus room, or any room addition.

As a perfect solution for comfort/temperature zoning, a mini split system can also be used as a whole-home comfort solution. This will only require one outside compressor unit which you can connect to two or more air handlers that are mounted in separate rooms inside the house. You can actually connect up to eight indoor units. The best thing about this setup is you’d be able to control the temperature in each room, depending on your preference. Now you can say bye to bye to hot or cold spots and be completely in control over your comfort.