Air conditioner ratings can be classified in several methods, such as; by consumer reviews, brands, energy efficiency features, etc. Newer units usually have the highest rating than outdated units. Therefore, ensuring your ac device is not outdated is simply step and smart investment on energy saving in the long time use! Sometimes finding air conditioning that is the ideal specification to your room either for the size, brands, durability or the efficiency performance rating is not too difficult process. But on the other hand, less research and information will make this process be more complex and difficult!
As well we know that the size BTU is crucial point that we have to take into consideration carefully while choosing and buying air conditioning appliances. Too small (lower size) and too big (over size) are not good choice and usually will make the unit run inefficiently! The BTU size calculation is much closely related to the energy consuming when the appliance working. The right size is also useful to help the unit able to keep the humidity level of the room ideally. The air conditioning ratings (especially for the energy efficiency ratings) are so important and helpful for many homeowners to find the perfect choice of the unit t to cool their room powerfully and efficiently! And today we can find a lot of information about them on internet.
Energy Star approval, BTUs sizes (as like written before) and SEER or Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio, are some important parameter that we have to concern when considering the air conditioning ratings. Energy Star rating from EPA and SEER can be categorized in energy efficiency ratings. Both are helpful to measure and tell you how the efficiency performance level of the unit when running. Both also can be used as indicator to know the economical performance and friendlier to the environment or not of the unit.
What is different between SEER and EER? Basically both can be calculated by the same way! EER is calculated from the load data of the maximum efficiency performance of the unit. SEER is determined from the load data of the average efficiency performance of the unit that can indicate the efficiency performance of the unit throughout the season; therefore SEER stands for Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio. But in fact, SEER is more popular to be used for residential AC units and on the other hand EER is more popular to be used for commercial AC units or even sometimes for industrial AC units.
Fleet efficiency is the other popular option for air conditioner ratings. Well, like mentioned before, in this modern living, we can find a lot of information about those ratings internet easily. We can use some credible search engines or some authority consumer review sites!
The last, the following are some top brands that have medium and excellent ratings:
- From www.airease.com or Air-Ease, it is top level brand from Lenox International! Anti bacterial and onboard diagnostics are some excellent and superior unique features from their products. 13 SEER is the minimum value of their products at these days. You can also find some of their products that come with almost perfect noiseless performance with their swept swing fan blades and insulated compressor design.
- Amana (www.amana-hac.com), one of their popular products that so recommended is ASX16. It has good long warranty, especially on compressor guarantee. It is also equipped with scroll compressor model.
- Next, the brand from Nordyne that is Maytag (www.maytaghavac.com)! Most their products usually are built in with stainless steel cabinets. M1200 plus is one of Maytag air conditioners that has the best warranty that currently available in the market at this time! Their products that have 23 value of SEER or more usually use IQ drive mechanism. It is smart innovative technology that combines between the advanced humidity feature and inverter rotary compressor concept.
- From www.trane.com (Trane), there are many on-line review sites give the rating for this brand around 4 stars (from 1 is the lowest and 5 is the highest rating). We can find some of Trane’s products come with R-410 refrigerant (non Freon refrigerant and therefore friendlier to the environment). The warranty is dependent to the specification of the product type, example; XR13, XL20i, and Xl16i are best choice in lifetime warranty! On the other hand, XB13 is not too recommended since it has poor lifetime warranty.
- Whirlpool with their official website: www.whirlpoolhavac.com. Most of their AC products are designed with great scroll compressors that have great reliability. Their products are offered with R-40 or R-22 and with 13 value of SEER (the minimum value of SEER). Their premium ac units usually are equipped with comfort zone alert and supported by nice long warranty.
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