The page you requested can not be found. Type in your search term in the search box located in the navigation bar. If you are using a mobile device, you can return to the mobile home page< 12 3 45 > 2 posts, read 33,961 times 27,818 posts, read 27,120,608 times Originally Posted by Earl B Bryant is actually a brand now owned by Carrier. Bryant isn't a bad brand but then again I contend that there aren't very many bad brands since all of them use similar parts manufacturers for the most part. Here's a list of HVAV brands and their history. All brands may not be up to date but the vast majority are. History of the Industry Brands Some of the common one: AMANA: Formerly a division of Raytheon, now part of Goodman Manufacturing. GOODMAN MFG: Started by contractor Harold Goodman in 1982, purchased from the Goodman family in 2004 by Apollo Management, now owned by Goodman Global. BRYANT: Founded by Charles Bryant in 1904, now division of Carrier Corp-United Technologies.

CARRIER: A wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies. PAYNE: Started by D. W. Payne in 1914, later becoming part of BDP with Bryant and Day & Night. Now a Carrier brand name. AMERICAN-STANDARD: Became Tappan Air Conditioning division in 1972. what size ac unit for 2000 square feetAmerican-Standard purchased the Trane Company in 1984. how long should an ac unit cycleAmerican-Standard name revived in 1988. window air conditioner unit troubleshootingIn 2007, American-Standard spun off WABCO, sold the plumbing division and changed the corporate name to Trane in November. GENERAL ELECTRIC: HVAC division purchased by the Trane Company in 1982. TRANE: The Trane Company purchased GE's climate control division in 1982.

Trane was purchased by American-Standard in 1984. In 2007 American Standard spun off non HVAC lines and will be changing the corporate name to Trane. Now owned by Bermuda based Ingersoll Rand. YORK: Formerly a dvision of Borg-Warner, York International is now spun off. York also makes Fraser-Johnson, Luxaire, Moncrief, Winchester, Coleman-Evcon, AirPro, Red T. Also known in the past as Central Environmenal Systems. York was purchased by Johnson Controls in 2005. COLEMAN: Heating division started in 1958. Bought by MacAndrews & Forbes Group in 1989, by Beacon International using the name Evcon Industries in 1990, by York International in 1994. RHEEM: Rheem Manufacturing is owned by Japanese water heater manufacturer Paloma. RUUD: Part of Rheem Manufacturing. Instead of worrying about the brand trying looking this over and then call contractors and see who is willing to go through it line-by-line and help you get the best system you can have for the money you're looking to spend.

2,401 posts, read 2,971,174 times 4,281 posts, read 7,953,888 times 4,221 posts, read 7,025,500 times In my area, goodman has probably more than half of the market share. It's only logical that there would be a significant number of complaints. How many of those complaints are real quality issues, versus installation issues is the question. Hvac tradespeople are legendary in the art of butchery & b.s, so I'd surmise that most issues with goodman units are the result of installer-butchery and not quality related. The parts are all warrantied for at least ten years anyway, so it's not like the customer would be out anything but labor in the event of premature failure. Originally Posted by hueyeats This is absolutely an installation problem, not a brand issue. Any idiot can install a "more powerful" unit in your home- cooling a house off "twice as fast" means that "more powerful" unit is probably way too large. That isn't a good thing. A/c units are sized by their cooling capacity - a "3 ton" goodman is just as "powerful" as a 3 ton carrier.

Replacing a 3 ton unit with say, a 5 ton unit might cool your house off faster, but your energy costs will rise & the house will never have an even temperature throughout. You'll also have more humidity & a better chance of growing some mold. Originally Posted by Zippyman And in addition adding a "more powerful" unit doesn't mean you'll actually get what you're paying for. For a unit to actually be "more powerful" it will need to move that required amount of air. The formula is 400 cubic feet of air per minute per ton which is set by the ARI standard. The other condition to meet the tonnage rating is 67�F indoor wetbulb, 80�F indoor drybulb and 95� outdoor ambient temperatures at sea level. This also is what correlates to the RLA or rated load amperage. Too many time I see people saying the amperage isn't meeting the RLA so something must be wrong. They don't seem to understand that if the system is in conditions outside of standard conditions then that influences the amount of work required.

3 Ton unit - 1,200 CFM 2.5 Ton unit - 1,000 CFM 2 Ton unit - 800 CFM People just assume their ducts can handle whatever they feel like installing. This fails on many levels because if the system was designed for a 2 Ton system then the duct work is designed for a 2 Ton system and the chances that it will handle the airflow need for a 3 Ton system are nearly zero since most HVAC system duct work is already undersized for the system that it was originally designed for. 4,327 posts, read 13,419,270 times Originally Posted by maggiekate You want to know what the ironic part is? When looking at spec sheets comparing Trane and Goodman the Goodman units are consistently 800 - 1000 btu higher given all the same conditions. What that means is that Goodmans are more efficient and transferring heat than the Trane units are. The reasons vary but the main reason is the thickness of the materials that are used in the Trane units compared to the Goodmans. Trane uses thicker materials and has a coil that tries to make up the difference that is a spun-fin coil compared to the traditional type of condenser coil.