Getting 220V

Not sure whether the topic fits into this area, but following situation.
I am moving to Keelung, found a nice house there, but realized that there is no 220V available for air-condition.
I know there are also air-contions available for 110V, but due the experience with the temperatures this year in Taiwan, I thought it would be nice to have an AC with inverter. Unfortunately, these models only support 220V.
So i am wondering whether it’s possible to get a 220V power line there and if yes, how much would it cost?
Anyone has an idea, experience about this?

Cheers
Tom

[quote=“tom1807”]Not sure whether the topic fits into this area, but following situation.
I am moving to Keelung (Jilong), found a nice house there, but realized that there is no 220V available for air-condition.
I know there are also air-contions available for 110V, but due the experience with the temperatures this year in Taiwan, I thought it would be nice to have an AC with inverter. Unfortunately, these models only support 220V.
So I am wondering whether it’s possible to get a 220V power line there and if yes, how much would it cost?
Anyone has an idea, experience about this?

Cheers
Tom[/quote]

Pretty cheap. Find a plumber electrician to get you a quote. I don’t know too much but I am getting mine installed for about 7000 nt or so. This is if nothing before the circuit breaker needs to be fixed.

It might not be so easy. Taiwan’s power works like the US, as far as I can tell: you have phase 1 and phase 2 which are at 110V relative to ground. So the normal house supply would be either of those phases and ground. Between the two (180’ out-of-phase) is 220V. You may or may not have both phases delivered to your house from the transformer (the dustbin-like thing that hangs from the nearest lamppost). It probably depends how big your building is. If it’s an apartment, 99% certain a 水電 guy will be able to find both wires and install a 220V socket, as UhdL said, for not a lot of money. If it’s a standalone house, especially an old one, you might not have a two-phase supply actually reaching the building.

If you find yourself in the latter situation, I don’t see why you can’t get a 110V inverter-fed aircon. It will be rather low-power (<1.6kW), but that should still offer you an effective cooling capacity in the 6kW range. It’s easy (from the designer’s point of view) to put a voltage doubler at the front end of an inverter, so there must be dual-voltage 110/220V aircon units out there.

EDIT: just wondering … when you say ‘inverter’, do you mean heat-pump function (an inverter is just an electronic circuit that converts DC to AC, in this case for motor-control purposes)?