Time for a new HVAC 5 ton - Help!

[Sigarms]

I can answer that one Gree is making equipment for Nordyne.
He has to meet with the Chinese from time to time at the Gree plant in china to have them make a few changes from time to time

And yes, RE is selling them under the old Chrysler Air Temp name.

Ken

"Air Temp" is the proprietary name brand from which RE Michel sells their own line of equipment (Chrysler has nothing to do with it per name "Air Temp" in the HVAC industry as far as I have known).

No different than "Maytag", "Whirlpool" or "Frigidaire" (sp?) lable line (two of which are made by Nordyne, and Goodman made the other name, but have since sold it off, one time to a Lennox subsidiary I believe). The irony (and cluster) is RE Michel is also selling Fujitsu as a unitary split product line that is actually made by Rheem/Ruud.

Question - If Gree is making equipment for Nordyne, they have to be making it on the ductless mini split line, but I don't see anything listed for Ductless mini splits for Maytag. Exactly what equipment is Gree making for Nordyne and what name are they selling it under???

 

[kenmac]

What I'm saying is. Back in the 60-70 chrysler used this name. When you bought a dodge, chrysler, plymouth and you the vehicle had A/C it had a window decal that said Chrysler Air temp. Just like back in the 60's 70. chrysler had their name on out board boat motors

Chrysler Airtemp Model 4216-51(??), S/N 2J646773 - Inspecting HVAC Systems - InterNACHI(R)️ Forum

But yes that is the name RE is using on the Gree equipment

 

[Sigarms]

What I'm saying is. Back in the 60-70 chrysler used this name. When you bought a dodge, chrysler, plymouth and you the vehicle had A/C it had a window decal that said Chrysler Air temp. Just like back in the 60's 70. chrysler had their name on out board boat motors

Chrysler Airtemp Model 4216-51(??), S/N 2J646773 - Inspecting HVAC Systems - InterNACHI(R)️ Forum

But yes that is the name RE is using on the Gree equipment

RE Michel sells Air Temp mini splits. Private lable, made by Gree for RE Michel (has NOTHING to do with Chrysler the "car" people as most understand it to be). RE Michel also sells Fujitsu mini split product (manufacturered by Fujitsu) along with unitary split products, with the Fujitsu lable made by Rheem.

The HVAC industry and the family "ties" can be very incestuous.

 

[ultrarunner]

My brother spends about 200k annually on AC... sometimes more when a hotel is going up...

When his new wife insisted and a central HVAC he called the owner of the commercial HVAC he uses...

The owner stopped by and specified Tempstar... we bought several which I had the pleasure of installing... ducts, refrigerant, concrete pad, attic pans, electrical etc...

It was dirt cheap in comparison... when I had all the units in the owner sent over one of the guys to pull a vacuum... which we paid regular shop labor rate... it was still cheap.

Rob, the owner said it was one of the best installs he has seen... I opened walls and ran the line set inside and had a full pan with secondary drain to daylight over the my brothers home office window... Rob offered me a job... I thanked him but said crawling around attics in July was not my idea of a career...

All the units I installed that summer are still in service... one fan motor replaced... what is it with motors anyway?

I'm sure the owner was simply taking care of a good customer... but... we did pay his tech full rate for the commissioning... even though he screwed up the fan setting... just a matter if DIP switches...

One of the things I liked is the same unit could be configured several different ways... I thought this is great engineering... also went with over-sized ducts and wide 90 on the return... it was super quiet in maintain temp mode... the envy of his neighbors and some paid over 10k for their installs in 2004 and the sound of forced air was annoying... these were all 1950 slab ranch homes originally with a single wall furnace.

 

[kenmac]

I was told they bought the rights to use the name Air Temp. Just like nordyne bought the rights to use the name Gipson, maytag, Fridigaire,etc.

As back in the day it was Chrysler air temp just like the appliances were Gipson, Frigidaire, etc,. the right to use those names were bought

It's really hard now days to know who owns who, and what company produces what products, or which products

 

[Daryl249]

I was told they bought the rights to use the name Air Temp. Just like nordyne bought the rights to use the name Gipson, maytag,
It's really hard now days to know who owns who, and what company produces what products, or which products

We need one of these for HVAC and pretty much everything else these days:

 

[kenmac]

We need one of these for HVAC and pretty much everything else these days:

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lol Yes, you do, but it would change on a regular basis

 

[ultrarunner]

We need one of these for HVAC and pretty much everything else these days:

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Love it... thank you for posting

 

[Daryl249]

lol Yes, you do, but it would change on a regular basis

I'm sure that one is already out of date.

 

[dstig1]

I'm sure that one is already out of date.

Yep. Hitachi does not own Metabo, is my understanding. They sold their tool business to metabo and licensed the hitachi name for a period of time, which is now running out, and why you are seeing Hitachi tools change names. That's what i read a few months back in Fine Homebuilding or the like.