Midea Split Air Conditioner Reverse Cycle 5.0 kW – Wifi Apollo Series Indoor/Outdoor Unit - $1169 Delivered - 5 years warranty + 5 years parts warranty
Our extended 5 years parts warranty is exclusive to Appliance repairs online. All other resellers offer only 5 years warranty.
Whats wrong with Midea? Just asking cause I am in the market for a new AC unit
Someone will post on here that they are the biggest manufacturer of ACs ever blah blah blah.
I'd just prefer a common brand used in Australia and Midea is not one of them.
Install it once, install it right. You pay $700 or so to have these units installed, makes sense to buy a quality unit that will last the test of time.
Mitsubishi has a great name, their units are super efficient and quiet.
Hi placard
I agree with your comment install it once install it right as we offer installation as well. We offer 5 years warranty on our installations. But i can safely say as a repairer no air conditioners will last the test of time its a great marketing pitch but very misleading. Hence why the manufacturer's provide 5 years warranty on their products.
@ARO1: I beg to differ. We've had a Fujitsu 7kw installed since 2009 no issues.
Still running as good as the day we installed it.
@placard: In all fairness anecdotal evidence is not really relevant. A 5 year warranty is decent enough - from memory my panasonic has the same period.
@Franc-T: Warranty if provided by the manufacturer just means they can afford to provide it. It does not mean the product is good.
At the end of the day, the decision to provide a long warranty involves many things other than quality- mostly it is risk and cost .
The trouble is that few consumers appreciate how much the cost piece includes the amount that the company doesn't have to spend on lost opportunity (time to market), and/or advertising and marketing the product, as a competitive warranty period says more than the rest. That is the largest component of the cost for an installed product, even if a large amount of them fail in the first few years.
Plenty of brands offer a shocking product or three but make the difference in volume and achieving market dominance. Later on, as the cost of warranty repairs mount up, they can save on warranty claims by changing distributor, delaying repairs, making claims harder, etc. Midea is a big brand in China, but in Oz they ahve a long way to go to challenge the established brands let alone the plethora of Korean challengers that barely rate in terms of quality, and are not always that much cheaper.
@Franc-T: True, but on hearing the amount of issues people have with Samsung, LG, "Mistral" and other lower-tier brands, I'm glad I chose the brand I did.
Some of the even lower tier no-name units have worse efficiency, so any savings on buying the unit will soon be chewed up in higher electricity use.
@placard: Yes, with the new R32 units, less capable product developers have a lot of trouble making their kit efficient. MHI and Fujitsu have several new units that lead the world in efficiency and make buying anything else a false economy if you use them a lot.
Tip: If buying a new unit with a 'Wi-Fi feature':
The Wi-Fi module presents two drawbacks:
1. Most, if not all, use power (a few watts, at least)
2. Most, if not all, use cheap IoT modules, which work as an AP, not a dumb device, and are impossible to secure. They don't update these things, and their radio design is so poor they allow perfect strangers 24x7 access to your home network and personal data 'over the air', too.
Pro-tip:
Should you not need the Wi-Fi control or feel it not worth complications like those above, you can usually unplug the module by opening up the internal unit and finding where it connects to the main control board. (Note: Be sure not to confuse it with any thermal sensors, and be sure to turn the power off at the switchboard first).
@placard: Granted. I have a Panasonic myself, looking at 3-4 new ones for the bedrooms but I am only looking at Panasonic or MHEV
@placard: I've got 2 Panasonics that are now 20 years old, after cleaning the intenral heat exchangers, they are back to near perfect operation.
Across 4 houses we also have 4 Fujitsus, ranging from 9 to 2 years old, all going strong, 2 are R410A and 2 are R32. The 9 year old one I pumped down and moved. as it was still perfectly good, after 9 years in the country. It was cooling a house that was 3x too large for it suffered from lizards storming the outdoor unit, but still worked perfectly. After replacing it with a larger one, I moved and added it to a spare room where it won't see much use. Most people would probably have just chucked it, but not me- with a new line-set, decent installation, and a light clean, it is back in operation and working brilliantly.
OTOH we've had a Samsung (R410A) and an LG (R32), neither made the grade in terms of quality, design or documentation. The Samsung's outdoor fan motor died on year 5 literally the moment the warranty ended, despite seeing almost no service and being more than large enough. Samsung want $600 for a new one, so I pulled it in disgust after finding the WiFi controller was so bad (they all are) and the diagnostics and service control functions so poor. The LG replaced it (poor decision) for barely <$1100, but a good one (Panasonic or Fujitsu) would have only been 10% more (doh!). (The LG works, but makes a light but annoying ticking noise on low fan speed, has terrible Wifi, build quality and service documentation to top it off). Having seen a few of the same model since, have noticed they all have the ticking noise on low speed, so clearly there is no point attempting to warranty repair it.
Other things that cost in ways you might not expect include noisy operation (of both internal and external units (sleep is valuable, even on hot nights), poor implementation of temperature logic, poor management of bacteria buildup (thermal cycles need to manage this properly or the internal fan gets stinky), bright lights that annoy, remotes that are cheap and fail or have idiotic screens and buttons- even the quality brands that are on their 2000th model iteration have challenges making a good, usable remote. Mainly because as soon as they settle on a good and simple display or button layout, marketing change it to add a new button that helps sell them in the shop, but in practice is near useless. Anything that confuses/gets in the way every time someone wants to use it should be avoided, and quite frankly the way they design the apps in the W-Fi/BT models just continues this same stupid approach.
My advice is to never buy a crap one, they only disappoint and will force you to revisit your purchase in no time. Also beware any Installations that are rushed. Better to choose an installer who will appreciate you want it done well rather than just cheap/to the cheapest price. I find that building and maintaining a relationship with a local one, and do things like telling them you need the old system de-commission properly (without releasing refrigerant unnecessarily), and pressure testing the new system with Nitrogen before vacuum pumping the system and testing the joints and moving on to testing/commissioning the system, is best. Else you will suffer from a system that gradually looses its refrigerant at the height of summer, or depth of winter, and/or becomes inefficient and fails in the first few years. All these seem to be a situation the vendor seems quite familiar with.
@resisting the urge: That's one thing I've noticed on many cheap units, the indoor fan even on lowest setting can be so noisy/intrusive especially if you're in a room that is quiet (ie no other noise going on). Sometimes even wanting to watch tv quietly, having a split on low speed fan need to turn up the tv volume.
My Fujitsu and I've heard Mitsubishis are so so quiet on lowest fan speed you can barely hear they are running.
This is enjoyed for years to come far longer than the initial slight extra price is forgotten.
Kinda related to what you said, but gave me a laugh.
Hi Hairypie
Their is nothing wrong with Midea. Major brands spend millions of dollars for Brand awareness or to either make you feel good about purchasing their brand. Gree and Midea are one of the biggest Air conditioning manufactures in the world but no body knows who they are in Australia. Gree and Midea make about 80% of the worlds AC around the world. Australia has a population of about 25 million people comparing to the worlds population of 7.8 billion people.
We have plenty of Midea appliances in the kitchen as mum is Chinese. Old and new. All of them are sub-standard. Haier are worse/just as bad. Yet to see a decent Chinese appliance branded similarly. I exorcise them whenever they fail as they are never fixable and parts/support is non-existent, but she still thinks they're great and buys new ones.
No doubt support and fixing is much easier in China, but here we are a very small and forgotten market so any product you buy here risks being orphaned by its maker, at the best of times.
Hi placard
If you can provide your email address i can provide you a quote on a Mitsubishi, Daikin , Fujitsu or Panasonic.
Hi Which Mitsubishi is better?Mitsubishi Electric or Mitsubishi heavy industries? my electrician says Mitsubishi Electric is better, the quality of components used are higher, he also recommend Daikin and fujitsu brand. The rest he thinks is just so so, what are your thoughts?
If you wish to buy a premium brand i would recommend Daikin though the parts do cost alot of money when it comes to repairs. Other wise any brand is as good as the other.
MHI is the better one with better parts. Drop the sparky and get a hvac specialist if your sure that's what he said
Are you a time traveler?
MHI tho
For that price, I would go with a known brand. They are on sales ALL the time. Just keep an eye out for it.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are marginally better than the standard Mitsubishi. They are two different companies. Each to their own though and you cant really go wrong with the top 5 Panasonic, Daikin MHI,Mitsubishi and Fujitsu. I have always been a Daikin consumer and had many units installed though about to fit a MHI due to their high ratings on productreview.com for their current series and Canstar AC of the year again.
The reviews below: MHI price is way cheaper, i was told by my electrician MHI recently sold to a chinese company and started cost cutting on their low end consumer product
https://www.canstarblue.com.au/appliances/mitsubishi-electri…
Your electrician knows nothing at all in regards to MHI. MHI is a major Japanese conglomerate with interests in aerospace, building, alcohol, banking, etc. They have not sold out to the Chinese and all units are built in Thailand.
Can you message me pricing on 1.7kw mitsi? Thanks
What are you cooling? Your toilet?? 1.7kw is tiny!
efficiency is the key
Get yourself a handheld paper fan…probably better.
I'd rather install Mitsubishi, Daikin, Fujitsu, Panasonic before I installed Midea.