Ducted reverse-cycle air conditioning is ideal for controlling the temperature of an entire home. If you're wondering how it will help, consider the following benefits.
Discrete
Ducted air conditioning consists of a central unit and a duct network that carries the cool air to the rooms. The primary system is hidden away unobtrusively in the crawl space, under the floor, or outside. Thus, you won't have a bulky piece of machinery inside.
The cooled air is blown into rooms via vents connected to the ducts. These vents are often on the floor and almost seamless. They're the only visual evidence that air conditioning is installed. Of course, you'll be aware of it because of the cool, refreshing indoor temperatures.
Zoned Systems
To make the system as energy efficient as possible, you could set up the air conditioning in zones to treat rooms independently. You could create one zone for the kitchen and daytime living areas and focus on cooling those spaces rather than the bedrooms during the day. You can set up the zones to accommodate how your household lives and whether they work from home. Zoning also lets you create a more comfortable home by targeting specific areas with the desired temperature. You don't have to follow a one-size-fits-all strategy when cooling your house.
Inverter Technology
Setting up zones is also energy efficient, as you don't need to blow cold air into rooms that aren't being used. You also have other options to make a ducted system more efficient. For example, invertor technology enables the air conditioning to speed up and slow down to maintain the target temperature. On the other hand, non-inverter models stop and start as the selected temperature is reached and then exceeded. This jumping style of operation uses more energy.
Motion Sensors
Another control lever to consider when picking air conditioning is motion detector technology. The detectors sense if someone is in a room and the system responds accordingly. For example, it might go into an economy mode if it senses the space is empty. This helps reduce costs, as you won't be paying to cool empty rooms.
Reverse Cycle
If you want to take full advantage of how unobtrusive ducted systems are, you could install reverse-cycle air conditioning. These units function as heaters as well as coolers. Thus, you can eliminate bulky heaters from your home as the air conditioning will send the hot air through the ducts and out via the vents in the winter.
