Most of us want low Elec cost, quiet, long life and good price.... normal.. but yet the "what you want" comes up .. a banana?
ok,
specials come all the time, and there are some good ones around... and I have seen some get cought up in BS specials as well.
Main things:
1/ Good brand - parts costs etc
2/ Warranty length - however, I would rather have 5 year on a decent system than a 10 year on a crap one.. its like insurance sales, a gamble
3/ Forget non copper!! ohh alum beter for new sea blah blah bs .. ask any real old timer installer Copper is the way to go!!
4/ Old timers also dont like inverters, more sensors, more for rats to eat, more parts, more difficult.. so you know the answers there...
The leading brands stats tend to be:
1/ Daikin
2/ Mitsu
3000/ Sa (yes you know) forget them
But reasearch is not easy, so much fake ads around.. so gotta love our members here and their time! Thanks.
Look at Daikin, you try to compare the models, and the resellers dont care or even know, just want sell and move on which is the modern day crap business ethics.
So you do reaseach and buy 100 model x, just to find the y model was better suited, but now your stuck with it for 5-15 years..
Yes, the Daikin being up there is a good example of this question, and also not all models are available in TH or evensuiitable to the TH weather.
FTKQ15XV2S for example is the best going on the 1-4 above, but there is another I cant find data on, a real challange.
So any real experience out there? Or specials spotted?
Thanks to all, please feel free to say your bit, I can edit this...