After fixing my central air a handful of times the past few years it's finally gone out for the last time I'm willing to deal with. I've decided to go with all mini splits, I installed one last week for the main living area and I'm putting one in each other the three bedrooms. This gives me redundancy, heating/cooling combined (furnace has been out for years but I'm in AZ so I didn't care much), lower noise, lower utility costs, ease of replacement, no ducts to deal with. I'm all around very very happy with the decision so far.
My question though is what's "needed", what are the "essentials" and where is the point of diminishing returns? I'm in the buy once cry once camp and imagine between cars, splits, and other projects I'll be doing 1-2 little jobs a year. I have a good flare tool, cheap manifold set, cheap pump, but I'm missing a core tool, higher quality pump, scale, digial micron gauge and so on. I do have a 25lb tank of 410a and a 30lb tank of 134a and I can get the basics done but I'd like to move to the prosumer level and would like some idea what to spend the money on and where it just isn't needed.
Thanks a lot in advance!
My question though is what's "needed", what are the "essentials" and where is the point of diminishing returns? I'm in the buy once cry once camp and imagine between cars, splits, and other projects I'll be doing 1-2 little jobs a year. I have a good flare tool, cheap manifold set, cheap pump, but I'm missing a core tool, higher quality pump, scale, digial micron gauge and so on. I do have a 25lb tank of 410a and a 30lb tank of 134a and I can get the basics done but I'd like to move to the prosumer level and would like some idea what to spend the money on and where it just isn't needed.
Thanks a lot in advance!
