Independent Review Of The Panasonic Etherea Air Conditioning Wall Mounted Heat Pump Inverter

The Panasonic Etherea air conditioning wall mounted unit was introduced in 2016 with its sweeping curved looks and matt white finish, soon after in November 2017 the Etherea won the iF Design Award which considers products on their aesthetic looks, environmental impact, control features and overall industry design innovations. An amazing achievement for Panasonic no doubt and not surprising when I recently installed one for the first time I have to say the indoor unit impressed me. The curved design of indoor unit throws shadows down the side of the air conditioning unit giving it interesting visual look with different lighting angles. The Panasonic Etherea offers the usual wall mounted air conditioning features other manufactures offer such as heating, cooling, inverter compressor and internal IR remote control but with some really nice added options as standard, one of them the Econavi eye.

Great Features Include:

Econavi

Thge Econavi feature is an in-built human activity sensor with sunlight detection technology which adjusts the internal units output thereby giving the user the best comfort at anytime whilst saving energy. Econavi not only optimizes air flow orientation and volume according to human presence, it also reduces cooling power automatically when not required. With Econavi, energy savings of up to 38% are possible, whilst increasing comfort. 

Nanoe Air Purifying System

The Nanoe revolutionary air-purifying system on the internal unit utilities nano technology fine particles to remove and deactivate 99% of both airborne and adhesive micro-organisms like bacteria, viruses and mold making it idea for allergen sufferers.

R32 Gas, Environmentally Friendly And Future Proof

The Etherea also run on environmentally friendly R32 refrigerant which has become industry standard in the last couple of years (2016-2018) ,a guarantee that the unit will be parts serviceable for the foreseeable future. 

Installation of the Ethera is straight forward with loads of space within the indoor unit

From an installation point of view the indoor unit has loads of space to work within the case, the electric box is huge as is the cable gully making it easy to access and install cables. The pipe services can be easily flared onto the internal unit with space left over for a small condensate pump within the case even. The unit is powered to the internal unit as with all Panasonic Split systems which is good for some installations. The only issue with a curved unit design such as the Etherea is that a side fitted condensation pump such as a Mini_lime pump will not fit as standard to the side of the unit. Not that most installers or users would spec a curved unit with that style of condensate pump anyway. 

The outdoor unit has a large electrical panel with large cable clamps with ease of installation well thought out. The cable and pipe covers has three screws to hold in place not the usual 1 with basic manufactures. The outdoor unit is quiet and well built with the fan and compressor not giving off that high frequency squeal associated with cheaper insulated compressors or fan bearings. 

Final Overview 

The Etherea range has six different capacities ranging from 2Kw/8000Btu up to 7Kw/24000Btu, with a A+++ efficiency rating in both heating and cooling, these models are some of the most efficient on the market.

Where to buy:

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