A $600 Ductless 110v Mini Split?!

Finally got it up and running. The only delays we had was because we realized we needed some extra parts (I’ll list that below) youtube.com/post/UgkxihMYiJNXcHdbH-7ihymsLz61l7jVy… . So we have a loft where our current hvac just couldn’t seem to keep cool during the summer. We have been using a window unit since we bought this house over 6 years ago (all the houses in this neighborhood were built in the 80’s and majority of the houses built like ours use a window unit). I hate window units because they are just so noisy and the one we had really only cools one side of the loft. I had contemplated upgrading our current HVAC, but with all the rising prices these days, it would take years before saving up enough to do that. With the advice of my father-in-law (used to run an HVAC business), he recommended we get an inverter instead. We thought we bought everything we needed, but there were just a few other parts we didn’t anticipate needing (which is what caused most of our delay). My friend and father-in-law did all the work to get it installed and running and now we have nice cool air circulating nicely throughout the entire loft. It is very quiet and even the outside unit is much quieter than our main HVAC unit. Saved ourselves thousands getting this.

Very nice install most installers would never go to this much trouble to do an install, I love these mini-splits. I put a Mr Cool 18K in 7 months ago and I wish the conduit cover was made like this one, so much easier to work with. The electrical cover:face-orange-frowning: was the only thing I thought was wonky at the time I installed it.

I just installed a 4 zone 36k BTU Della 220V on my cabin. The install was super easy. I ran one line set inside an interior drywalled wall and that was a tad difficult by myself but it worked out... The only thing I overlooked was to install the drain line under the refrigerant lines... I was worried that I might have water backup and overflow the interior pan but it was fine and drains without leaking. I'm super impressed with the Della unit!

I can tell you take pride in your work. Looks great

Man! Youse do great van builds. Learn so much from them. Thanks for sharing them with us.

I got the 220 volt version and it's been awesome so far.

That della unit is the same as the pioneer. But for cheaper. I love mine. It cranks cold air 247

I bought and installed one of these about a month ago, and immediately bought and installed a second one. You didn't mention it, but the wifi programming options and controls are outstanding. Way more features and capabilities than I could have even imagined.

love my Della, installed in my Garage, in LV, so nice, was unbearably hot before, perfect now

Nice job with your explanation. I have one of these units in my new sunroom and I absolutely love it!

At 1:35 you have an electrical box that you removed and it looks like it will be buried in the wall. This is a code violation unless the box is accessible.

You put copper behind a wall and it will rot your wall out with moisture dripping inside the wall. That copper the electrical and the drain go straight outside from the evaporator so there’s only 4 inches of copper in between the walls. The rest of the copper stays outside you should make straight runs and cut its links to fit correctly. Which means you’ll need to pull a vacuum after you weld your copper up.

I installed a 9,000 btu Cooper & Hunter in my office two summers ago. I now have a different Della 12,000 btu unit than this to install in my bedroom. The listing in the description is for a 230v, the 115v unit I ordered is $100 more. And the C&H unit is now around $850. Not too hard for someone handy to install and the cooling in the summer is great, and heating in the winter is great. Hoping to get all the rooms in my house with mini split systems and my solar panels installed (there on a pallet in my shop right now, haha), then my propane bill will be cut a lot in the winter.

Overall I like your installation. 3 comment: 1. I would not run the lineset inside the drywall. If there is water leaking for whatever reason, it won't leak inside the wall and goes unnoticed until it is too late. I would put the lineset to the outside and cover it with lineset cover. 2. I would check the leak at the connection points after releasing the refrigerant before I tape it up. The pressure in the lineset will be much higher when running in heat mode and will show any subtle leak. Holding the vacuum does not guarantee no slow leak. 3. Minimum lineset length is about 10 ft from the MFR. Does it really make a difference if shorter? I am not sure. Maybe just less efficient.

Love the whole walkthrough of this video.

I can tell you take pride in your work. Looks great. I can tell you take pride in your work. Looks great.

Very thorough instructions, thank you. I can do this 💪

Its looks like AUX brand here in the Philippines. The remote is similar. But ours has big smiley icon in the middle and doesnt have led backlighting on lcd screen.😊 pretty good job!❤

I agree with some other comments about running a drain down to the ground, but gotta make it look good. Maybe small pvc over to the inside corner of the wall and then straight down the corner, painted to match the siding obviously, which would make it basically invisible.

Super great install, Dave! No evidence of the old wall unit.