ReplyAny 5 that are installed by me.
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whats your top 5 picks for equipment brands and why?
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Any 5 that are installed by me.
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What loads/work for the 'brands' to do /?
Ranges of operation?
Indoor/Outdoor?
Comm/ res/ process?
Rfg or not?
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I'll see what a few others dig up first.
Process cooling: NO COMPRESSORS- just simply Earth-Coupled since 1996
... still needs to be hybridized with Earth-loop GTX for energy transfer/ chillin' /or thawin'
Perhaps you need a 22f Chiller/HW-Heat-Reclaim: buy a GEO-T Heat Pump (GTHP with Heat-Recovery)
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?...mal_heat_pumps
http://www.hydro-temp.com/products.html and Bosch/Carrier/WF DHW while Cooling/Chilling
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mo btta mo mny mo savings (if all around applicable)Originally Posted by Adlerberts-Protege
Process cooling: NO COMPRESSORS- just simply Earth-Coupled since 1996
... still needs to be hybridized with Earth-loop GTX for energy transfer/ chillin' /or thawin'
Perhaps you need a 22f Chiller/HW-Heat-Reclaim: buy a GEO-T Heat Pump (GTHP with Heat-Recovery)
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?...mal_heat_pumps
http://www.hydro-temp.com/products.html and Bosch/Carrier/WF DHW while Cooling/Chilling
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bryant
trane
payne
american standard
carrier
in that order
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That's 2 brands, Carrier and Ingersoll Rand.
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Trane/Am Std.
Carrier
thats it.
It's hard to stop a Trane. but I have made one helluva living keeping them going.
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Bryant/Payne/Carrier = all Carrier
Trane/Am Std = Ing and Rand
It's hard to stop a Trane. but I have made one helluva living keeping them going.
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5 best not worst, ok?
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Rheem
Carrier
Bryant
York
That's it in that order. Thank you very much
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Ok lets see tranE, traNe, trAne, tRane, and . . . ah . . . Oh Yeah, TRANE!
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Residential:
Rheem/Ruud
Trane/AS
York
Anything but Carrier
Anything but Bryant
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ICP
ClimateMaster
anything but trane
anything but american standard
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Aaon and then everything else
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York
Luxaire
Coleman
Guardian
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Their factory brazed joints look like my 5 year old did them, other than that they seem ok.
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I like rheem's A/H and rectangle condensers. Their high static packs are dumb, huge condenser compartment but everything crammed together in the corner, and their cube units are also very frustrating.
Pretty much anything within the last 5 years has something dumb, angled copper lines, angled drain line's, who comes up with these internal 90% traps directly in front of the blower when they could put it to the side, 90% pipes that go up in front of the coil screws grr, furnaces with flimsy screw on flanges instead of being part of the cabinet, I'm sure there's more.
Too bad there's not a brand that goes all in making things as easy to service as possible with lots of input from actual techs on how to make the unit easy to work on.
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Rheem and Ruud say that the new 360 line was designed by installers and techs to make it easier and faster to work on. I had a dealer meeting the other night showing the new features and benefits of the new equipment that should be out by the winter
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We just got a delivery of 10 furnaces due to them shutting down and re tooling. One thing I heard was more efficient and the 2 stage will do down flow also?
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Automotive analogy: Our shop mechanic likes The Fords better than the Chevys. My cousin, a Chevy guy, says he must have to fix the Fords so much more than the chevys, that he is better at fixing Ford, therefore likes them more. I thought my cousin was crazy.
But... I spend so much of my life fixing stupid Carrier designs, I find myself quoting much more Carrier than our other brands. Maybe I am like an abused dog staying by his masters side. At least I know all the ways our installers can install a Carrier wrong, because I have seen them do it over and over again. Trane and Goodman, I have to learn new stupidity.
Jason
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