Description
- OLMO Alpic 9,000 BTU, 110/120V Ductless Mini Split Air Conditioner with Cooling and Heating, 16.5.SEER, Inverter Technology
- Quiet operation, great for bedrooms, additions, living rooms and commercial applications. A great way to heat and cool your home all year round.
- Ready for installation: 16ft copper line set, communication wires, drainage extension and small accessories are included. A licensed HVAC technician is required to perform the installation.
- Inverter Compressor by Toshiba – 5 Year Limited Warranty. 2 Year Limited Warranty on parts.
- LED Display, Self Diagnosis, Intelligent Defrost & Pre-Heating
eddie may jr –
This thing is way more than I expected. It’s is super quiet and has ac and heat. I can run my regular ac on my tv and this one at the same time on my 30amp breaker. Beey nice look- no mess, easily installed!!
D.R. –
Good value, first one I installed 5 years ago,I have installed many this brand and no issues. Many of these are advertised that it is do it yourself installation and can be but i dont recommend purging system instead of pumping lines down and most of these are bad for leaks in linset connections..I use lock seal on fittings and line test with nitrogen to 350 lbs.. I pump down lines to -30lbs with vacuum pump. Unit is factory charged with r410a freon good for 25 feet or so of lineset length.
Lineset can be shortened or added to with flare fittings etc or you can roll up if you have to. Foam lineset cover won’t last long outdoors. Use a plastic cover or rubatex. I also used wall brackets for outside unit. You can use pad or block to sit on also. No warranty if you install yourself unless you are hvac certified. Very quiet , air was pretty warm at coldest I’ve seen down to bout 3 degrees. Most of these are identical at this quality just have different labels on them. If installed correctly and sized according
will do excellent and pretty efficient even with just 15 seer models. 600 square ft per 12000 btu with decent insulated living area usually bout right for sizing. Rinse out filter once a month and set temp where you comfortable and it works great.
Kelly Spahr White –
I’ve got a small, old house with no central HVAC. So, it’s heated and cooled with split units and window units. This is a huge step up from a heat pump window unit for not much more money. Obviously, this is a lot more difficult to install, but the inclusion of a defrost cycle and its quiet operation make it vastly superior.
As to the installation, I did the whole thing myself. I’m no HVAC pro, but I have a vacuum pump and manifold gauges from automotive work. I did have to buy a split unit-specific adapter fitting for my gauges and some electrical stuff, but otherwise what was included was turn key.
The instructions could be a little clearer on the relationship between line length and pre-charge amount, with “standard” lengths listed for different regions that are different from the included pre-flared lines. To avoid stressing over the quality of my flares, I went with the full length lines as shipped, vacuumed them out for double the recommended time, removed the gauges, opened the valves at the outdoor unit, and let it rip.
It runs great, ice cold on A/C and nice and hot on heat. The remote control is the same as my existing Carrier units, so I can control them all with the same remote.
Highly recommended.
Amazon Customer –
It came in good condition and wasn’t too hard to install. I was able to do the installation with no help, but I would recommend having a helper to mount the inside unit. Hardest part was carefully bending the copper tubes between the indoor and outdoor units to keep them hidden behind the indoor part where they go through the wall. If you don’t hire an HVAC tech to start the system up, you’ll need a vacuum pump to evacuate the sytem before opening the valves on the outdoor part to release the charge into the rest of the system. I bought one of the cheaper vacuum pumps from Amazon to do it myself, and used it on this system and another. The unit is very quiet and quick to bring my 12×20′ office down from 80° to just above 70°. Since it is a heat pump, it has condensate drains from both the inside and outside units.
Mark –
The whole unit seems to be of decent quality, it cools my two car garage really nicely and you can barely hear it running. The controls are pretty straight forward and easy to figure out with out to much problem. Only thing I would change is the wiring instruction picture was terrible and the signal wires weren’t numbered for which socket they belong to so just have to remember where you mounted each colored wire on the indoor unit and match them up, not a huge deal but just one more step you have to take.
EP –
The customer service department and distribution center is out of Doral Florida. Whenever you call as to an issue, the warranty department will demand a licensed outsourced AC company. Though the split system is reasonable in price but the outsourced installation and or diagnosis gets expensive. If you have multiple investigative needs, as I did, the labor exceeds the cost of the unit. Comfortside aka Olmo uses every trick in the book to not cover the device. I had to resort to the BBB on two occasions to get a resolution. On the first unit failure I was successful in coverage yet on the second issue, a part that was covered, Comfortside decided that the part was not covered by warranty claiming the unit was not under warranty. This was strange especially they replaced the part under forced warranty the first time. The take away is that Comfortside is argumentative, rude, abysmal customer service. They intentionally work out of the state of Florida due to the laws being more supportive to the corporation thereby allowing for more consumer support subjectivity. 1 Stay away from companies operating out of Florida, 2 don’t buy Olmo the ratings given here are not accurate. You are better off buying a competitors system than from Olmo/Comfortside.