Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Expat & Property Owners Q and A Forum => Topic started by: Villafan on August 13, 2012, 10:59:23 AM
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Can anyone advise what the life expectancy of aircon units is? Our apartment is about 7 years old, and the aircon units appear to be on their last legs. They are apparently a fairly obsolete Samui brand and the apartment has been rented out throughout the season since new so perhaps this is about par for the course.
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I think mine are about ten years old, the problem we are getting now isn't really the fault of the unit but the lack of power in the electricity to drive them.
The newer generation of units can run off a lot less power and as the power has been reduced now it may be time to re-invest in some new ones ;)
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If you suddenly find your air con starting to blowing warm as opposed to the ice cold air you are expecting it is due to the sudden surges in electricity usage that can't be managed by the grid (as Andy says).
We thought our fairly new and powerful air cons weren't working and Doğan went to the air con shop to see if an engineer could come out and this is what he told him.
There do appear to be common times of the day for this to happen, usually for us it is late afternoon.
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Funny enough one of our aircons was blowing out warm air last night and thought it was power surge related but the same this morning. Bayram has just been round, needed new part and re-gassed, ours are 7yrs old.
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Our aırcon unıt ıs 6 weeks old and suffers from power surges ıt turns to fan only durıng a power down then returns to cool when the power returns to normal. The surges affect our TV as well ıt turns ıtself off. The joys of living in Turkey.
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Our other unıts are nearly 6 years old and had them servıced thıs year, but we clean the fılters ourselves. They work very well.
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We had ours fully serviced last week and the problem remains.
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How do you know when the gas thing runs out/needs changing?
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Usually if they won't blow cold air Nichloa. Just had the same problem with my car. Suddenly stopped getting ice cold air and has been in the Ford dealers today to get a full test for leaks and a re-gas. Freezing now :)
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Sound like time for new ones,think about inverter air con,a lot more economical .
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Ours are 7 years old One needed replacing completely last year because it got fried in a storm that blew the electronics to bits.
The replacement is much quieter and more efficient inverter type. More expensive but cheaper to run.
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Savoyboy,
what is "inverter air con?"
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Inverter is energy saving air con,please look on lg.com or look up inverter air con
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An inverter controls the speed of the outdoor compressor unit to operate at a variable optimum speed which saves energy compared to an 'on/off' type of basic unit which switches on at full speed each time it is required.
They are more economical to run and less prone to failure (hopefully).
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Thanks
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We had one catch fire this year (outside unit) lucky it got put out very quickly but caused some smoke damage. Ours are ten year old Samsung units, worth getting them checked out if they are not running correctly.
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Ours were 7 years old and the maker was no longer in business and we always had trouble getting them fixed. Decided to renew and glad we did, what a difference the new ones make.
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We had a little waterfall pouring from one of ours the other day. Beko service came out (all 5 of them because it was a quiet day) turned out the water run off pipe was blocked.
Ten minutes later it was cleared. Cost us 20TL - it would have cost us more to find a long ladder to sort out the problem ourselves. One of the guys spoke really good English which was helpful.
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We had a problem a few years ago with water coming out of the air con units. We found out that if they air con is not used for a while, insects crawl up the outside pipe and lay eggs, so blocking the system. After calling out someone to sort it for us, the guy told us to get a long cleaner, which looks a bit like a bottle cleaner and then just put it up the pipe to clean it out. It always worked, if fact, we have lent this out to our neighbours who then went out to the Yapi Market and bought their own cleaner. So if you have water coming out of the air con, give this a try.