Appreciate if you could share your experience or advise accordingly.
I am planning air conditioning my newly built home in Kotte.
I will need AC units as follow.
18000BTU - 02 units
12000BTU - 03 units
9000BTU - 01 unit
18000BTU and 12000BTU units are for bedrooms and 9000BTU is for my small office room. Heavy use will be only week ends.
I did some price and technology research in the market - it is just like the auto market. The leading companies as agents for leading brands - the prices are very high with VAT etc....
Then moved to some small retail importers, the prices vary very heavily for the same brand with same features with conflicting stories and finally became quite confusing.
Specially for the Panasonic / LG / Misubishi / latest inverter models.
1. Since not a heavy user, is it a good decision to move to Inverter models or use normal ACs ..??
2. Could you propose a good brand and retail importer to partner with for this small project
So for a spirited convo like this old times; ?BYD
My father has gone ninja about getting one, despite being the new hype/fad here these are common across the world and I've seen a few cross 100,000km in Nepal and Australia.
Seal - Looks nice, very premium interior but too low for my applications
Sealion - Very Premium, feels very well built, BUT that 1.5L on that reasonable chunk of car with a measly 18KW battery seems like a recipe for trouble, incase they sink in value at least the fuel economy must justify that (They say it's a BYD engine - though the lore is it is a hyundai engine)
Atto 3 - Most sold from their lot apparently, common af, Seems to be the best bang for buck IMHO, Its electric since BYD is famed for that, Interior is kinda good, the thing is larger than a vezel but not too large like the Sealion, cheap mobility I guess with less things to go wrong
Dolphin, almost a smaller atto and again too car like and not suited for my application.
JK nailed it on the price and distribution but the only guaranteed thing here is the lot are gonna muck up the aftersales. The Kandy center staff behave like the crew from a Govt. post office.
What are your thoughts and opinions? Could this be the next Wagon R or is this a passing fad like the Micros of 2000s-2010s?
I have an empty parking slot at home previously occupied for 6 years by the starlet and 3 months by an AD wagon -what would be a bang-for-the-buck fun shitbox? Preferably auto as I live in a crowded suburb that has sapped the joy of stick shift out of my system.
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Ginger
Early Wishes for a very happy new year.....
Appreciate if you could share your experience or advise accordingly.
I am planning air conditioning my newly built home in Kotte.
I will need AC units as follow.
18000BTU - 02 units
12000BTU - 03 units
9000BTU - 01 unit
18000BTU and 12000BTU units are for bedrooms and 9000BTU is for my small office room. Heavy use will be only week ends.
I did some price and technology research in the market - it is just like the auto market. The leading companies as agents for leading brands - the prices are very high with VAT etc....
Then moved to some small retail importers, the prices vary very heavily for the same brand with same features with conflicting stories and finally became quite confusing.
Specially for the Panasonic / LG / Misubishi / latest inverter models.
1. Since not a heavy user, is it a good decision to move to Inverter models or use normal ACs ..??
2. Could you propose a good brand and retail importer to partner with for this small project
Planning coming to SL next week to finalize.
Thanks all in advance...
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