What does "standby" mean on our mitsubishi aircon control panel?

We've battled with the aircon unit in our offices for years :-) Over time we've worked out most of the cryptic instructions and even the black air of which unit covers which area.

However, one thing we've never worked out is what does it mean when it says "Standby" on the local control? We infer it means "sort of off" as the aircon isn't run in that area.

But... it should have been. The room was freezing but no matter what we could do, it steadfastly said standby.

Today though, standby has disappeared and the unit is working normally, as it usually does.

We've got the engineers coming in but each time it appears to work for them.

Asking in DIY as in the past I've had some great advise from here.

Cheers, Rob.

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Rob Nicholson
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If you are saying that you were asking the unit for heat (in inverter mode) to warm the room, but it was steadfastly stuck in "standby" then more than likely it was performing a defrost routine on the external condenser... When outside temps are near freezing (roughly 3 - 0 C) i.e. damp, then they regualrly need to defrost the accumulated ice off. Below freezing when the air is dry, defrosting is not needed (or as often)

Tim..

Tim.

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Tim..

My guess is that in the cold weather someone turned it completely off so the compressor heater has gone off too, and the compressor has got very cold. In this case, it has to be heated for typically

24 hours before it's safe to use it. Otherwise, the refrigerant may have condensed into the compressor oil (if that becomes the coldest part of the system) and this has dire effects if the compressor starts up in this state - the diluted oil is too thin and it ends up getting pumped through the compressor, but it won't compress, and can also wax up in the expansion jet, wrecking the system all around.
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Andrew Gabriel

replying to Tim.., pilks wrote: why is the unit in standby during cooling mode. how long does it take to self correct

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pilks

Over seven years mate, and it's 30 deg in the shade. Help. H E L P !

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Graham.

Tim might not be around 8 years after posting his question/answer.

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alan_m

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