ALDI Split System Air Conditioners

I had this installed almost three years ago. It's quiet and reliable. The remote is a bit useless as the keys are grey. They are hard to read. Otherwise, it's a good unit. It cools rather well and the heating function is equally as good. As a bonus, when the outside air stunk of burnt forest during the recent bush fires, I closed all doors and windows resulting in a sweat box. My son encouraged me to turn the air con on anyway. Sure enough, the air filter filtered out the smoke/stink etc. so that we could breathe again. Stirling is apparently a...Read more

I purchased my Aldi / Stirling Airconditioner (STR-23RSJAIF) in October 2016. I have it installed in my bedroom so a relatively small room but always thought it seemed under powered to the extent where I would leave my ceiling fans running while cooling in summer and in winter run a small space heater until the room got warm enough for the Aldi airconditioner heating side of things to maintain it. I just figured it was underpowered and once you have gone through the expense of installing it, it's too expensive to take it down and get a refund /...Read more

Generally speaking, my family has found Aldi products to be of good quality. This air conditioner is no different. We purchased it for our bedroom, to replace an ageing unit installed years ago. We bought it mainly because it was an Inverter design, and one of the few units available that featured a 4.5-star cooling and 4-star heating rating. Also, it came with a 5 year 'in-home' warranty - which is hard to beat! The unit is quiet, easy to operate, and has a digital read-out built into the cover. For our (average) bedroom size, it is brilliant ...Read more

I bought a 3300W-cooling air-conditioner from Aldi (Stirling STR-TCLAC12), additional to the two 2300W-cooling units from Aldi (Stirling STR-23RSJAIF), which I bought 2 month earlier. Thus, I will compare the two a little bit.

Happy with both. Only minor design-improvements ALDI should take on board.

The unit is quiet and even quieter in sleep mode.

I did detailed measurements with a power-meter:
Standby mode: 9W! :(
Switching on in A/C-cooling mode:
In contrast to the way the 2300W-cooling unit from Aldi works, where for the fir...Read more

I bought 2 x 2300W-cooling and 1 x 3300W-cooling. Happy with both. Only minor design-improvements ALDI should take on board.
The unit is quiet and even quieter in sleep mode.
Somebody below complained about the long time until the unit starts operating - this is explained in the manual - it works like this.

I did detailed measurements with a power-meter:
Standby mode: 2W
Switching on in A/C-cooling mode: Power consumption for the first 3 minutes: 36W (if I recall correctly) - this is the power used by the fan of the indoor unit. The out...Read more

I have this air conditioner and would recommend it to anyone as long as their needs are a close fit to mine. I was looking for an inexpensive air conditioner that I would use mainly in summer when it was extremely hot and humid (Sydney summer). It's slightly under capacity for my living room but does a fine job for me but I don't want to be in a refrigerator-type environment.
The only shock was the installation. Even by doing most of the work myself, there was a fair amount of extra expense installing and connecting the two units (eg I had to ...Read more

The 3 units we installed all work OK and run whisper quiet. However the power used by the unit in the living area, which admittedly is undersized for that space, runs continuously at 1000W - nearly double the 520W advertised on the box and only achieves about 5C cooling. I have an in-line power meter to measure the power.
The unit in the bedroom, which is appropriately sized, cools the room off very effectively and correctly switches down to low fan when the room is down to temperature. However, the power only drops below 520W if the room...Read more

I comment in general on the Aldi/Stirling air conditioner offerings, not on any one model. When Aldi first put an air-con on their Special Buys around 2009/2010 it was a 6.4Kw unit and priced at $599.00. I bought 3 and they all worked flawlessly (and still do) The only caveat I now have is that the ones on offer in 2016 are all weeners around 2 to 3Kw, and at the same price of $599.00. Such a unit is fine for a bedroom or other small room, but the value for money has pretty much gone. 6KW for $599.00 was fantastic. 2.3KW for $599.00 is a bit o...Read more