The title seems like an advertisement. Well it is certainly not. I am thinking of buying a new Air Conditioner (AC) at my place and like any other thing which I bought I have done my "basic" homework for various products available in the market. [People around me always blame me for not deciding on any such thing instantaneously and stretching the matter to unnecessary length but irrespective of those views I do take my time in arriving at a final decision]. So here is what I came across when I was going through the products.
1) Panasonic was cashing on two things Inverter technology, econav mode and nanoG filter.
2) Samsung was talking about its virus doctor and built in stabilizer as well as bio sleep mode
3) Hitachi was talking about its multiflow and iclean technology
4) Sharp was talking about plasmatech as well as Inverter tech.
Like any other customer I was curious about the working of all above as the cost factor was significantly different for different specifications. What I found during discussions with the sales persons or officials representing the companies is that they know very little about their own products.
I will talk about the experience I had with Panasonic. Before I went to Panasonic store in an exhibition I had done my homework. But, I was not very much sure about the difference between antibacterial filter and nano G technology. So, first I asked that to a sales person but he could not give proper answer so I asked the person who was in charge so he routed me to some other person. He explained me about the nano G stating that it removes all the dust particles, pollen, virus and bacteria. He said it also removes the invisible viruses. The viruses which we can only see in sun rays and not by naked eyes. And I was shocked. He talked about so many other things but eventually I realized that only I will have to find the difference between the two technologies. Expect Sharp I had similar experience with other brands too.
I am coming back to my initial lines and would like to ask everybody that how many times we purchase the goods by doing proper home work ? We can spend time on fb, twitter, online gaming but can't we just check some basics of the goods we are purchasing. If we are not going to do this so called techno-sales persons would continue explaining us the "truth" about their products and we will blindly accept them. I have faced this situation many a times for almost every product. The technosales persons are either reluctant to discuss pros and cones of their product and if you ask them they just say anything. They can afford to do this because we as a customer are very lazy in finding out some simple details about the product. Before buying anything one may just go through “ buying guide of-------------”. It is the tendency to accept the things without going in to the details that has lead to this situation. Very few people take pain to know the product profile. I have even seen highly educated people to be reluctant about getting information about the product they are buying.
Helping all of you with my homework on a/c hope this will be helpful. If you have something to add please feel free to do so.
What should be the capacity of your A/C ?
It depends on the room size and if the area is below 100 sqft you can go with maximum 1 ton. Between 100-150 you may have 1.5 ton. In fact one may visit the site of LG for getting these details. However, these are rule of thumbs and may vary depending upon the floor, direction of sun and other things as well.
What are new star ratings ?
The new star ratings are more energy saving, The 3 star product of 2011 is now 2 star and likewise for every rating. You may see the star rating with energy saving potential in with green back ground for 2012.
Which refrigerant is used in my a/c?
All the a/c comes with R22 now a days but it is likely to be phased out by 2020. Our A/c running on R22 need not be replace as the production of R22 will be continued till 2030. Many companies like Panasonic, Sharp have come up with inverter technology which uses R410a. More on this for those who are interested can be shared.
Difference between plasamcluster (Sharp), nanoG (Panasonic), virus doctor (Samsung) and antibacterial filter.
The antibacterial filter will remove the bacteria which will enter the a/c machine and thus makes the air purified. However, in the case of all other technologies the machine releases some trillion negatively charged ions and these ions get attached to positively charged ions (virus, bacteria, pollen etc) and take them in the machine and thus make the room purified.
