Faber 60cm 1200 m3/hr Auto-Clean Chimney (Hood Orient 3D) vs Symphony Diet 12T 12-Litre Personal Tower Air Cooler

What separates them

These two differ on 9 recorded specifications. The Faber 60cm 1200 m3/hr Auto-Clean Chimney (Hood Orient 3D) is ₹8,700 dearer.

Faber

Faber 60cm 1200 m3/hr Auto-Clean Chimney (Hood Orient 3D)

₹14,990

The sizing rule nobody explains at the showroom is that suction should be roughly ten times your kitchen's volume per hour -- 1200 suits a kitchen of about 20 cubic metres, and buying more than you need only adds noise.

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Symphony

Symphony Diet 12T 12-Litre Personal Tower Air Cooler

₹6,290

Evaporative cooling costs about a tenth of what an air conditioner costs to run, and the reason is that it does not remove heat -- it converts sensible heat into humidity.

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Who the Faber 60cm 1200 m3/hr Auto-Clean Chimney is for

Buy it if: Anyone with a kitchen around 20 cubic metres who can duct to an external wall.

Avoid it if: Anyone who cannot duct outside -- recirculating a chimney through a carbon filter removes very little Indian cooking smoke.

Who the Symphony Diet 12T 12-Litre Personal Tower Air Cooler is for

Buy it if: Anyone in dry inland heat wanting cooling at roughly a tenth of an air conditioner's running cost.

Avoid it if: Anyone in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata or any coastal humidity -- evaporative cooling does not work in damp air.

Specifications, side by side

9 of 22 rows differ. Differences first.

Specification	Faber 60cm 1200 m3/hr Auto-Clean Chimney	Symphony Diet 12T 12-Litre Personal Tower Air Cooler
Price	₹14,990	₹6,290
Annual energy use	Roughly 90 kWh a year at 1 hour a day, about Rs720 at Rs8 per unit	Roughly 110 kWh a season at 8 hours a day for 90 days, about Rs880 -- against roughly Rs9,000 for a 1.5 ton air conditioner over the same period
BEE star rating	Not rated -- BEE does not cover kitchen chimneys	Not rated -- BEE does not cover evaporative coolers
Capacity	1200 cubic metres per hour, hobs up to 3 burners	12 litre tank, rooms up to about 10 square metres
Dimensions	60 x 50 x 45 cm	30 x 30 x 84 cm
Installation	Wall mounted, ducted through an external wall; professional installation required	Free standing, needs an open window
Noise level	About 58 dB at maximum speed	About 52 dB
Rated power	250 W	185 W
Refrigerant	Not applicable	None -- water evaporation
Weight	12 kg	7.5 kg
BEE rating year	Not applicable	Not applicable
ISEER	Not applicable	Not applicable
Warranty	1 Year Official Brand Warranty	1 Year Official Brand Warranty
Air throw	not published	About 6 metres
Auto clean	Heats a collection bowl to liquefy trapped oil at the press of a button	not published
Cooling method	not published	Evaporative -- water absorbs heat as it evaporates, which also adds humidity
Ducting	Shorter and straighter duct means more of the rated suction actually reaches the outside	not published
Filter	Baffle -- separates oil by changing the direction of airflow, unlike mesh which clogs	not published
Sizing rule	Suction should be roughly 10 times the kitchen's volume per hour. A 20 cubic metre kitchen wants about 1200	not published
Suction	1200 cubic metres per hour	not published
Ventilation	not published	Requires an open window; a sealed room becomes humid and uncomfortable
Where it does not	not published	Coastal humidity. In Mumbai or Chennai it adds moisture to already saturated air and provides little cooling
Where it works	not published	Dry heat. In Delhi or Jaipur in May it works well

Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.

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