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Home » Reader question » What is a good brand of air conditioning in Thailand?
What is a good brand of air conditioning in Thailand?
Dear readers,
My girlfriend is going to have air conditioning installed in one of the bedrooms. She asks me what a good brand is (less maintenance, quiet and economical). I have no idea. Can any of the readers help me?
What will it cost for a room of approximately 25 m² purchase plus installation?
Regards,
French
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Dear French,
Number 1 is Daikin.
More expensive, but quiet and economical.
What is important at Daikin is that there is a 'short' interval between cooling and stopping.
This means that the temperature does not rise and fall by 4 degrees, but that there is a constant cooled temperature.
My brother-in-law is an air conditioner installer in Thailand. He distributes a number of major brands including Mitsubishi, Daikin, Panasonic and Samsung. He does not want to use other, lesser-known brands because they are usually of lower quality.
He claims that Mitsubishi is the best brand. Never any problems, quiet and economical and last for years. I asked him what he thought of Daikin and he claims they are not as good as Mitsubishi. However, Daikin is the most expensive in the top class but not the best.
He has been doing his job for many years now and always recommends Mitsubishi to his customers. According to him, no other brand can match price/quality.
Your brother-in-law is right. I have an HVAC company in Bangkok and have been in the business for 10 years and Mitsubishi is the best for split type wall mounted units or cassette type units. Of course, purchase an inverter model. Daikin often has more problems.
Idd, Daikin or Carrier (slightly less expensive) are the better brands
Plenty of budget air conditioners such as Beka and Central Air
And in between the other brands….
The home pros and thaiwatsadus always have offers, especially now that the cooler period is approaching
But they don't always want/can't install
What is also important is that you get the correct BTU for the room in question
Calculate it yourself and keep in mind that a long room is more difficult to cool than a square room
so measurement shows the same BTU, but for a long room that is a waste of money.
Buy that lower BTU and put a fan halfway across the room if necessary
Daikin and Carrier are excellent brands
Pay attention to the SEER value. The higher this value, the less energy consumption, which can easily make a difference of 30-40%.
And the additional cost is recouped in a short time.
A good SEER value starts above 1.7
(SEER stands for Seasonal Energy Energy Efficiency. It gives the ratio between the amount of cooling capacity that the air conditioning provides and the amount of electricity that the air conditioning uses for this)
The best and very economical air conditioner is the dual inverter from LG. This technique saves a lot of energy. Very economical and quiet. Plus perfect filter system
We have LG and are very satisfied with the interverter, low power consumption and constant temperature, little noise and easy to clean
Yes, this LG Dual inverter air conditioner is really perfect... because it is direct current... it is very economical, saves 50% more energy than normal inverters. And very reliable. Everything from LG is very good. Simply order on the internet. 18000 btu, 18500 bath and connection costs 2000 bath. Really perfect
We had Mitsubishis for 20 years. Solid and reliable.
5 years ago they were replaced by LG inverters. So far just as solid and reliable. New technology, much quieter and more economical.
Daikin also gets good reviews, but we think the price/quality ratio is too skewed.
Mitsubishi and Daiken inverter are the top. More expensive, quieter and more economical (inverter).
The Chinese Haier is cheaper but should not be in the shadow of the first two in terms of quality.
Maintenance will be more or less the same for all brands. This depends more on the use than the brand.
Repairs will probably be needed sooner for the Chinese (if they are possible at all).
Depending on the proximity of a larger city, there are also often second-hand A/C for sale.
The supplier supplies and installs these.
For example, we bought a small set at the office for a room of 6 x 3 meters for 7600 THB.
I have had problems twice with Haier brand appliances. Poor service and do not take into account the actual warranty. That brand will never come to my attention again.
Fortunately, there are plenty of alternatives on the market. I also have air conditioners from Mitsubishi here.
LG is the quietest and energy efficient. Have been using them for years without any problems
I think mentioning a brand name has little effect, French.
A few years ago I opted for an inverter [type] when renewing the air conditioning [2 pieces] in the house.
They are economical to use and reasonably quiet.
In addition, the brand I have also contains a PM 2.5 filter, something that does no harm in Thailand.
They calculate an air conditioning cooling capacity [BTU] with a volume measure [rounded up] and not with an area measure.
Just go to a sales point and ask for an inverter, I suspect you will end up with a 12 BTU.
Depending on your choice of model and brand, let me say that I spent almost 50000 Baht on two of those things, including installation.
Maintenance once or twice a year A 500 Baht each.
Less is possible, more is also possible, when purchasing or maintaining.
Frans Daikin is good, but it concerns m3 and not m2, which must be in proportion to B T U what the air conditioning delivers, there are graphs about this, so just google it and you will know.
French,
It is best to go to a "Home Pro" shopping center, depending on where you live, there you not only have all brands of air conditioners but also a guarantee for what you need and the installation.
In my experience, a Panasonic is for the bedroom, you can set it to “quiet” and you hardly hear it, especially if you want to sleep with air conditioning on.
Daikin and Mitsubishi battle for honors. Depending on the store, one or the other is number 1.
Apparently most Thais go for Mitsubishi. Farang often choose Daikin.
Farang in particular usually choose Daikin. And why if I may ask? Because they are one class more expensive?
I read above from someone that Mitsubishi price/quality is number 1. I have 4 Mitsubishis hanging here in the house (for 7 years). Never had any problems. Whisper quiet and very easy to maintain. Anyway, a farang has to be able to show that he can afford something more expensive.
I live in Indonesia and have been using 16 Daikin units in our diving resort since 2019. These are 14 x 2 HP and 2 x 1 HP units, HP they call it here, all inverter type. I would have to look up BTU. Inverter is best because it “switches” in terms of strength, not just on/off.
In the 4 years so far, although little use in the bungalows during Covid of course, I have had to replace a capacitor in an outdoor unit (ODU) once (easy and costs almost nothing), but also twice a whole printed circuit board, both in an ODU and in an Indoor Unit (IDU). Both times the circuit board was burned out at the location of the main chip where a blackened little gecko (tjiktjak) turned out to be stuck! So the fact that they can get in between is perhaps a weak point, apparently insufficiently shielded due to cooling (and the heat that the gecko seeks out there?) Price of new motherboards (PCBs) is approximately 1 Euro!
Apart from that, I don't think 3 problems out of 14 units in 4 years right on the beach (salty sea breeze) is bad. By the way, most here swear by Panasonic as the best brand, but it is about 20% more expensive than Daikin. Perhaps because Daikin does not yet have much of a foothold here and probably. wants to compete. What about Panasonic? I swear by that for all switch and socket fixtures. Have been using it here at the seaside for almost 20 years, never any problems.
More details about the units I use, Google my name (Ton with 'n N, and where I sit “Pulau Weh”)
Mitsubishi, 9000 – 12000 BTU for 25m2 and most shops will do the installation for free if the CDU is not too far away from the FCU.
Of course they don't do that for free Dennis.
The basic price includes installation because buyers simply do not have the knowledge and equipment for installation.
If you want a take-away price, you can simply make that clear and you will usually get it.
Most of the warranty will then of course be void.
I also had the burnt circuit board once, Ton, the thing had been hanging for less than six months because of the gecko.
Renewal costs three thousand baht.
Very annoying.
As far as brands are concerned, I think there are three brands that are very good, of which I have the brand mentioned by Dennis, a matter of taste in terms of appearance.
Various tests have proven the quality of Mitsubushi Heavy Industries air conditioners. Has nothing to do with Mitsubushi Electrics. The latter brand is certainly not bad, but the former is great. One of the few brands that is still actually manufactured in Japan. It does have a slightly more expensive price tag, but it more than pays for itself in quality. I have no interest in Mitsubushi, but I have developed hundreds of projects in the Philippines, where the major banks, among others, simply required this brand. Smoothly.