Central Air Conditioning System for Residential Houses.

[prashantakerkar]

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Can we have a Single Air conditioner unit - Heavy capacity Ton
in a Residential House located outside in a Balcony and the cooling air is distributed through ceiling carried in ducting
or piping media method ?.

For example : 4 Room Residential House - 2 Bedroom, 1 Hall room and 1 Kitchen room.

Now cooling air will flow throughout the House from the ceiling ducts/pipes.

In this case we will have four remote controls for each unit in the ceiling duct where we can switch on/off individual unit
Or
Can we have a single remote control which will control all the four rooms temperature i.e. 1 Hall room, 2 Bedrooms, 1 Kitchen room.

The Normal way which we do was purchasing 4 AC units and installing all the four units in all 4 rooms. There are four remote controls for each unit installed.

Is this possible to design this type of Central Air Conditioning System for Residential Houses ?.

Thanks & Regards,
Prashant S Akerkar

 

[amit_arya]

Hi

I did some research on this. Please look at VRF (variable rate flow) systems. those are like inverter ACs and depending on requirements (load) work at different rate (tonnage). so a 10 ton VRF can easily handle 5-6 indoor units which are good enough for a 250 sq yard covered house.

Depending on your budget, these can be attached to central water heating, builg management system etc etc

however i did not go ahead. installing individual ACs was coming out to be a lot cheaper for me.

 

[vijay]

The overall cost for putting up a central air conditioning system to a residential house would be much more costlier then choosing up individual air conditions for each rooms.
The loader, compressors along with the in unit would be much more costly.

 

[srinivas_gs]

For our country, central A/C will not work in terms of cost, maintenance, usage and constant availability of electricity. We have habit of selectively using A/C in selected rooms in selected timings. Central A/C will consume more current than a normal one and is not required nor economical if all rooms are not being put to A/Cing at the same time at constant durations. Also maintenance wise, it is bit cumbersom and timeconsuming too. And given our attitude for minimizing expenses, cental A/C will look like a big burden.