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| Anyone had any experience with the cassettes? Seriously looking at mini splits (Mitsubishi is better represented in San Antonio) for new construction. We are fine with the wall units, but might consider the cassettes if performance is the same.
2nd ? - If I have a unit in the master BR that is sized to handle an area consisting of the MBR & Master bath will that be adequate or will I need a unit in the bath? |
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| Check the manufacturer data, but I think that you will find that anything but the high wall units are less efficient. Have you looked at the small air handlers for the MRr/bath combo? They take short ducts to condition more than one room. You would need a very large bath to install a separate unit. You could use a jump duct to move air from the bedroom to the bath. |
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| We have two ceiling cassettes and three wall units. The ceiling cassettes are very efficient. We use one to cool our main open floorplan and one to cool the master bedroom. We have a separate wall unit in the master bath. I'm really glad we have it because our bath is on the south side of the house and had two sky lights so gets tremendous thermal gain. If you leave the doors open between your bath and bedroom then it may be OK if your bath doesn't get alot of thermal gain. Also if you can position the unit so it throws air into both rooms that will help. You can look at the specs. for the various units to check the efficiency, noise etc. I couldn't find anyone to install the units with the ducting to different rooms. I think that is a good solution for smaller rooms and would have liked to do that. The ducted ones are less efficient because the ducts run though unconditioned attic space in most instances so they loose some of their cooling. Be sure to position the one in the bedroom so it does not blow air onto your head while you sleep. We had to close off one of the ducts in our ceiling cassette because of this. |
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- Posted by ratflinger (My Page) on Tue, Oct 30, 12 at 20:36
| Thanks - I'll probably just go with the standard setup. Wife doesn't mind the unit high on the wall & if we move it will be into an assisted living home so I won't care if there's a small financial hit because of 'perceptions'. (I perceive my energy bill being lower & that trumps ascetics). |
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| The only place I don't like the high wall unit is in our dining room, the smallest room. It is obtrusive in there. I was surprised to find that the Mitsubishi 6000 and 9000 BTU have the same size case. It seems like they should be able to make the 6000 smaller. Other manufacturers may be smaller. Pay attention to the controls from different manufacturers. I think that others may be more flexible than Mitsu. There is not a true set-back. I can set on and off times, but not a setback. I like to sleep cool and have the room warm when my feet hit the floor and that can not be done. There is no hard-wired thermostat that can be use with the residential Mitsu systems. Others may be able to do that, but at an added cost. |
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