I’ve talked about how Daikin Mini splits and heat pumps have helped consumers discover great things about their newly installed equipment.

Things like, easy trouble shooting, lowering heating bills, incredible dehumidification, terrific air filtration etc., but what’s behind these things? What makes Daikin so much better than the competition?

It’s advanced technology!

A lot of manufacturers today are touting their inverter compressor technology and they’re right, it’s an amazing advance in how air conditioners and heat pumps actually work.

Let me explain what an inverter compressor is.

Imagine that you have had a standard non inverter air conditioner installed in your home and let’s say your home is 1000 sqft. The installing company would likely have sized a 1 ton air conditioner, (1 ton is 12,000 Btu’s), (British thermal units), so 2 tons would be 24,000 Btu’s and so on. A general rule of thumb is 1 ton or 12,000 Btu’s per 1000 sqft of space.

Every time your thermostat calls for cooling, you get 1 ton or 12,000 Btu’s of cooling. When the space achieves set temperature and the thermostat is satisfied, the air conditioner shuts off and as the space heats up again, above the set temperature, the air conditioner comes on and delivers 12,000 Btu’s.

What an inverter compressor does is fully modulate, depending on the amount of cooling required at that specific time and the amount of heat and humidity that’s required to be removed. So, on certain days, you might get the full 1 ton of cooling and on other days you might only get half of that, 6,000 Btu’s, depending on the load at the time or you might get as little as 4,500 Btu’s. Instead of shutting off, the compressor continues to deliver cooling and dehumidification but at various Btu’s depending on what’s required.  We know that the Daikin inverter systems run 75% of the time at less than 70% of the capacity. This really saves on energy!

Here’s a great analogy, imagine you are driving your car on the highway and you are doing 80 km’s an hour, you press the accelerator and get the car up to 120 km’s per hour then drop back to 80 km’s per hour then up to 120 and so on. You can imagine how much fuel you would be using in that scenario.

Now imagine you’ve brought the same car up 100 km’s per hour and put the cruise control on. The engine very gently increases or decreases its speed to maintain 100 km’s per hour. The fuel usage is much lower.

What is different is Daikin’s attention to detail towards the research and development of products. Most manufacturers use a standard rotary inverter compressor but Daikin improved the technology with its exclusive swing inverter compressor. This change makes a huge difference in how quite and efficient the system operates. Most inverter compressors use a spring and a seal to create the compression cycle. Daikin has welded components together to eliminate the spring and the seal. Small change, big impact. I have attached a video to show the difference between the two compressors to help give you a better understanding.

Most manufacturers use a standard rotary inverter compressor but Daikin improved the technology with its exclusive swing inverter compressor.

This is why Daikin is the best choice for a ductless mini split air conditioner or heat pump. Not just an inverter compressor like everyone else, a better inverter compressor, a swing inverter compressor.

Now that’s advanced technology!

Next week, I’m going to talk about Daikin’s totally cool and exclusive feature called the intelligent eye. You won’t want to miss this one!

Tom Keough

Vice President

Comfort Connections

Website: ComfortConnections.com

Email: TomK@comfortconnections.com