IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer (Maxidry EX) vs Faber 60cm 1200 m3/hr Auto-Clean Chimney (Hood Orient 3D)
What separates them
These two differ on 9 recorded specifications. The IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer (Maxidry EX) is ₹7,000 dearer.
IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer (Maxidry EX) vs Faber 60cm 1200 m3/hr Auto-Clean Chimney (Hood Orient 3D)
IFB
IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer (Maxidry EX)
₹21,990
Roughly Rs25 a load and 2100 W make this an expensive way to dry clothes in a country where sunlight is free most of the year -- its case is the monsoon, and for a few months it is a genuinely good one.
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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.
Full details →Who the IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer is for
Buy it if: Households in heavy monsoon regions with somewhere to vent the hose outside.
Avoid it if: Anyone with no external vent route, and anyone who can line-dry most of the year.
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.
Specifications, side by side
9 of 21 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer | Faber 60cm 1200 m3/hr Auto-Clean Chimney |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹21,990 | ₹14,990 |
| Annual energy use | Roughly 480 kWh a year at 3 loads a week, about Rs3,840 at Rs8 per unit | Roughly 90 kWh a year at 1 hour a day, about Rs720 at Rs8 per unit |
| BEE star rating | Not rated -- BEE does not cover clothes dryers in India | Not rated -- BEE does not cover kitchen chimneys |
| Capacity | 5.5 kg dry laundry | 1200 cubic metres per hour, hobs up to 3 burners |
| Dimensions | 60 x 58 x 85 cm | 60 x 50 x 45 cm |
| Installation | Free standing or wall mounted; must vent warm moist air outside | Wall mounted, ducted through an external wall; professional installation required |
| Noise level | About 62 dB | About 58 dB at maximum speed |
| Rated power | 2100 W | 250 W |
| Refrigerant | Not applicable -- this is a vented dryer, not a heat pump | Not applicable |
| Weight | 30 kg | 12 kg |
| BEE rating year | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| ISEER | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty |
| Anti-crease | Tumbles intermittently after the cycle ends | not published |
| Auto clean | not published | Heats a collection bowl to liquefy trapped oil at the press of a button |
| Cycle time | About 90 minutes for a full 5.5 kg load | not published |
| Ducting | not published | Shorter and straighter duct means more of the rated suction actually reaches the outside |
| Filter | not published | Baffle -- separates oil by changing the direction of airflow, unlike mesh which clogs |
| Not condensing | A condenser or heat-pump dryer needs no vent but costs more; this one must be vented | not published |
| Running cost | Roughly Rs25 a load | not published |
| Sizing rule | not published | Suction should be roughly 10 times the kitchen's volume per hour. A 20 cubic metre kitchen wants about 1200 |
| Suction | not published | 1200 cubic metres per hour |
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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