The problem you refer to would be present whether the unit was in use or not ..So enjoy it .. actually leaving doors and windows open or even a low speed fan will disperse any leaked gas .. should there even be any.. The only problem with combustible gases is that they could drift diffuse down and pool in underground voids or cellars and build sufficient concentration to achieve the Lower explosive limit
Yes yours was a more trad split unit, different to the small domestic indoor units, mine contains 168g of propane.
Precisely, any leaking gas will be out of there in a second or two. There hasnt been a leak and just like other units its just the regulator having kittens. You could equally say the same about the 13kg of butane in a lot of peoples kitchens.
Actually I would have expected a cooling unit expelling cool air to be high on a wall and absorbing hot air . Hot air rises so the hottest air is at the high point .. and therefore a refrigeration coil or grid is more effective with a larger temperature difference between the input and output
…but only when the clim isn’t running.
Air conditioning only works properly with a sealed space, which is why you need to keep house or car windows shut if you want the benefit, otherwise your system is attempting to treat the entire global atmosphere.
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For those who are directly affected by the recall, just been talking to our electrician who has made a very sensible suggestion.
We have a dedicated single socket alongside the Qlima. He will change it to a double socket for us and we will have a gas detector plugged into the second socket.
He is concerned that he is installing a number of similar brands, identical units - one went in last month - and is wondering whether they are going to be recalled. Very strange.
He’s also been in touch with Leroy Merlin, who know of no problems but will try and find out if any units have burst into flames.
It says in the installation manual not to use an extension lead. So when we installed ours our electrician chased a cable from a socket on an adjoining wall and installed a dedicated socket alongside the unit. We’re fortunate in that the cottage walls are lime rendered, so pretty rough and ready. You would never know that the cable channel is there.
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Arse covering instructions to some who are not aware. 1.5mm2 is still perfectly capable if made properly.
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Obviously and what is the difference between that and the spur that our electrician took from the adjacent wall? But we are compliant. 
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The pedant pro electrician in me would say ‘well not exactly’. This is due to your saying that …
A truly dedicated socket, which is what an individual heating appliance such as your Qlima unit requires, is supplied directly from your tableau & is protected by it’s own disjoncteur i.e. a socket added to an existing circuit is simply that, an extra socket that you have plugged a PAC into.
Left to my own devices I would have put in a truly dedicated circuit & used a ‘sortie de câble’ & ditched the plug/socket combo. My own monobloc unit has a pair of remote switching wires so I’ve had to go down the connection/junction box route to deal with the 5 wires going back to the board.
Electrically there is nothing wrong with what you have as long as the extra socket doesn’t take the number of outlets on that circuit over the regulation quantities, which vary depending on which version of the normes were in force at the time of the original installation.
What has been done for your PAC is definitely preferable in safety terms than an extension lead, so have no fear. I’m sure it’s aesthetically better too 
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