If you live or work in a Jamaican property with high ceilings — a villa, a hotel lobby, a church, or a hillside home with an open upper floor — you are likely familiar with a familiar frustration: the heat rises, and it stays there near the ceiling. No matter how hard your air conditioning runs, the upper portion of the room remains warm while the floor-level cooling effect is diminished. SMIA-RCCS Limited has a practical solution, and it goes by the name of destratification.
What Is a Destratifier?
To bring down heat stagnating near the ceiling, the most effective solution is a destratifier — a ceiling circulator specifically designed to break up the temperature layers that form naturally in any enclosed space. Cold air near the floor, warmer air in the middle, and warm air collecting near the ceiling is the classic pattern. An effective destratifier disrupts these layers and redistributes the warm air throughout the room.
What Makes the Exhale Gen-5 Exceptional at Destratification
Unlike traditional bladed ceiling fans that direct airflow primarily downward in a narrow cylinder beneath the unit, the Exhale Gen-5 draws air upward through its centre and releases it in all directions — a full 360 degrees around the room. This means the warm air collected near the ceiling is not simply pushed down in one narrow spot; it is genuinely redistributed to every corner of the space. The result is a far more effective and comfortable evening-out of temperature from floor to ceiling.
It is worth noting that as soon as you have a ceiling height of over three to four metres, a destratifier becomes genuinely useful — regardless of how powerful or efficient your cooling system is. Physics will always cause warm air to rise. Without active air mixing, you will inevitably end up over-cooling the room just to achieve acceptable comfort at floor level — wasting energy and money in the process.
What Does It Cost to Run an Exhale Gen-5 Around the Clock?
Based on a typical Jamaican electricity rate of approximately JMD $55 per kilowatt-hour, and considering that the Exhale Gen-5 at Speed 1 (the slowest setting, ideal for destratification) consumes just 4 Watts, the monthly cost for continuous 24-hour operation is remarkably low.
Running 24 hours a day for 30 days equals 720 operating hours per month.
- At Speed 1 (destratification mode): 4 Watts x 720 hours equals 2.88 kWh per month. At JMD $55 per kWh, that amounts to approximately JMD $158 per month.
- At Speed 6 (maximum cooling mode): 50 Watts x 720 hours equals 36 kWh per month. At JMD $55 per kWh, that amounts to approximately JMD $1,980 per month.