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Temperature of releasing
Defrost operation time | Less than 2 minutes | 2 minutes or more |
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temperature for | No releasing | 57.2 °F or higher (*1) |
releasing defrosting |
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*1 The temperature for releasing of defrosting is (68 °F) or higher when the outdoor air temperature is less than 32 °F.
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COOL | The ON/OFF operation | The operation lamp illuminates. | The outdoor unit does not operate for 3 minutes | ||||
| button on the remote | The indoor fan operates at the set fan speed. | even after the breaker is turned ON. | ||||
| controller is pressed. |
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| The outdoor unit starts. | The frequency is increased at the rate of 0.5 | ||||
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| When the frequency reaches Hz, | This is in order to stabilize the return of oil to the | ||||
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| The frequency then increases. | If the indoor and outdoor temperatures are high, | ||||
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| The room temperature | The indoor temperature and the desired | Operating frequency is stabilized in order to | ||||
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| desired temperature. |
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| The thermostat turns |
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| The outdoor unit stops. (It does not stop if the | ||
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| The thermostat turns | After the thermostat turns ON again, the | After 3 minutes, the outdoor unit begins operating | ||||
| ON again. | outdoor unit will not operate for 3 minutes, | automatically. | ||||
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| Freeze prevention | When the temperature of the indoor heat | In order to protect against freezing, the | ||||
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| exchanger drops to approximately 35.6 °F | compressor stops temporarily, until the | ||||
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| or below, the compressor turns OFF, the | temperature of the indoor heat exchanger has | ||||
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| outdoor fan turns OFF, and the indoor fan | risen. | ||||
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| is adove 46.4 °F, the system returns to its |
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| Stop | All indicator lamps turn OFF. The indoor and |
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| Operation is restarted | Starts operating in the same operating mode | Within 4 hours after operation was stopped, it is | ||||
| within 4 hours (only when | (COOL) and with the same temperature | assumed that there has been no significant | ||||
| AUTO mode is selected | settings as before operation was stopped. | change in the indoor and outdoor temperatures, | ||||
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| passed. | ON/OFF operation button is pressed. |
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