[pepicon]

Freaking expensive! And with bad service? Wow. I live in the northeast of Brazil, 27–32 °C all year, every day. When I installed a heat pump for our bedroom, it cost me about $500 for a Midea unit, $50 to prepare an electrical outlet, and $100 for installation, which was done in a single day. Service here isn’t great, but I guess it’s five stars compared to New York’s

My electricity cost to run this unit every night is ~$55 extra

[sieve]

> Freaking expensive!

Right!?

I live in India. The summers can be 40C. So $500 for an extremely energy efficient split-ac from a local manufacturer that does up to 12K BTU/h and $50 for installation.

I ran it 16h every day at 40% capacity for 2-3 months with the rotary inverter compressor pulling about 250-300W when cooling for a total power consumption of about 180 kWh per month.

[koyote]

Here in Australia it takes barely a day to install a couple of split ACs and maybe 1-2000 USD all-in (Mitsubishi Electric; Midea would be cheaper of course).

No idea how they justify the time and cost over there.

Then again they pay tens of thousands of dollars to install solar when it's 1/10th of the price here.

[20after4]

Everything and everyone in the US have lost their minds. It's definitely an empire in it's final days.