mini split air conditioners

[luvrbus]

     Yeah, the "march of progress".   They make more money when the customer gets less.  Are any of the "usual suspects -- Coleman, Dometic, Atwood, etc. (and I'm guessing they're all owned by the same Chinese company now anyway) -- making a quality inverter-type rooftop unit with the harsh-environment rating?

Coleman is still American made,the rest are Chinese and Mexico made, the Coleman Mach 8 plus is a good unit but comes at a price,Atwood will be gone since Dometic owns it now

   

[Oonrahnjay]

Coleman is still American made,the rest are Chinese and Mexico made, the Coleman Mach 8 plus is a good unit but comes at a price,Atwood will be gone since Dometic owns it now   

    Thanks, Clifford.  I knew that there were some ownership shenannigans, just didn't remember the details.  All in all, I'm pretty sure that there are not a lot of benefits for us. 

[richard5933]

Coleman is still American made,the rest are Chinese and Mexico made, the Coleman Mach 8 plus is a good unit but comes at a price,Atwood will be gone since Dometic owns it now

   

Dometic is still selling the Air Command line under the Atwood name. Seems like for now at least they are keeping its features intact, and they are marketing it to meet the needs of a harsh environment (where it gets hot?)

[chessie4905]

Airxcel owns Coleman, Surburban, Max-air, and other well known brands. A new outfit is buying Airxcel.

https://www.airxcel.com/about-airxcel/news
Hopefully they won't move everything off shore.

[luvrbus]

You need to be careful with the Atwoods they don't work in extreme heat 104 is about their limit and Atwood will tell you that.
Mine or Gary Hatt's would not cool in 111 degree heat so I went back to Coleman and Gary went to a palm leaf with a young lady but that is just hear say from Gary

[richard5933]

You need to be careful with the Atwoods they don't work in extreme heat 104 is about their limit and Atwood will tell you that.
Mine or Gary Hatt's would not cool in 111 degree heat so I went back to Coleman and Gary went to a palm leaf with a young lady but that is just hear say from Gary

If it's 111 degrees why aren't you just heading north? Night time temps here are in the upper 60s right now.

[luvrbus]

If it's 111 degrees why aren't you just heading north? Night time temps here are in the upper 60s right now.

I am north in Williams AZ a day time high of 80 and night time down in the 50's only a 3 hours from home but I still have to contend with desert heat sometime and I want a AC that works.Last week it was 115 in Ca and 118 in the Az desert not much difference lol but it is a dry heat.It's cooler in Williams Az than in Idaho or Wyoming where we plan on going later