When temperatures no longer fall below 20 degrees Celsius at night, we talk about so-called tropical nights. Such nights have increased noticeably in recent years. Ventilation alone is no longer enough to cool living rooms and bedrooms down to acceptable temperatures. The high Celsius values coupled with high humidity make sleep restless.

In principle, homeowners have three options to remedy the situation in existing properties. Firstly, they can invest a five-figure sum in façade insulation. Secondly, they can purchase a monobloc air conditioning system or, thirdly, they can install an air conditioning split system on the roof. All three options are not really ideal at first glance. Façade insulation is not only expensive, but also involves a high consumption of resources during production and must be viewed critically in terms of the_{carbon footprint}. For example, a climate split unit would cause fewer emissions even if it were used continuously around the clock for 20 years. Furthermore, even the best façade insulation cannot permanently banish the heat in hot summers.

Disadvantages of split air conditioning units
Monobloc air conditioning systems, on the other hand, require an exhaust air hose to the outside. This is not attractive and certainly not efficient. After all, the same amount of warm air is sucked into the room as is discharged. An air conditioning split unit, on the other hand, has the heat exchanger outside the room to be cooled, just like a refrigerator, and is therefore about three times better positioned in terms of energy balance. However, these devices have the major disadvantage that some of them may not be installed on houses. And even if this is the case, there can be a problem, as this report shows. But ACE shock absorbers found a solution.

When installed on the roof, it can happen in individual cases that air conditioning splitters vibrate quite strongly and make themselves felt through the vibrations they cause. The vibrations can also be transmitted into the building structure and thus possibly also into the living rooms and bedrooms. In this case, however, a homeowner with the latter condition only struggled briefly with the vibrations caused by his new air conditioning split unit installed on the outside of the house.

He was familiar with ACE through his work as a technician and knew that the company specialized in damping solutions. After a quick phone call, the specialists from Langenfeld recommended that he download the company's own VibroChecker app. This free tool allows the iPhone or iPad to measure vibrations and shocks. Even better: after determining the values that cause the vibrations, the app also shows the ACE solutions that can remedy them. After just a few entries, swipes and confirmations online, four vibration dampers or so-called compression mounts of the type COM-52511 were found to efficiently and permanently isolate the disruptive vibrations later on site.

Suitable damper via app
The family of compression mounts includes vibration dampers that cover a load range of 6.3 to 2,053 kilograms at a natural frequency of 4.5 to 17.3 hertz. The high bandwidths are typical of ACE's standard solutions, as the company aims to provide users with as many models as possible from stock so that the most common designs can be handled as quickly as possible. This was also the case here.