I thought its the other way around.
Inverter air conditioner uses less electricity thus save money when usage exceed 8 hours,
If less uses more electricity compared to regular non inverter air conditioner,

Got this information from my uncle who is an electrical appliances distributor.
Confirmed this fact with a few electrical brands representative when I was visiting the goverment's energy efficiency subsidy roadshow (forgot name) in Kelana Jaya's Giant.

I had an interesting conversation with the air-cond service man that came to service my mom's house.
My mom is using York and Panasonic air-cond.
He does all brands air-cond service (chap pa lang)
I asked what he thinks is the best brand.
With the current advertisement, I wanted to install Panasonic.

Below are the salient points of our discussion

1. Daikin - It has the best build (thicker material), good quality, good technology, No.1 in Singapore, has links with Acson and York, he totally recommend, price not much different than Panasonic, was absent from Malaysia market awhile due to bad distributor but now making a strong comeback thus no problem with spare-parts, loud because it has a strong blower thus cools the room faster, only air cond with inverter that can use regular gas.

2. Panasonic - The build has gone thinner, the second brand he recommend after Daikin, well established in Malaysia thus no problem with spare parts,
loud because it has a strong blower thus cools the room faster.

Other brands - avoid if possible

A Korean brand who also produce mobile phone - avoid like plague.

Reporting from KL.

This post has been edited by phoenix69: Sep 27 2011, 12:04 AM

Did not ask specifically. It seems that this sentiment is also shared by my wetwork contractor.
Any other members have this experience?

The air cond contractor I spoke to earlier and the Legend Hi Fi Salesman told me this, Daikin Inverter air cond is the only inverter air cond that uses regular non inverter gas. Thus service charge is the same.
Is the service charge the same. ??

Aiyo ... Wanted to install Daikin Air cond but found out that the wiring must follow daikin spec (Which is diffrent) from other brands to get the warranty.

Regular air cond wiring.
Power point and switch near the inside air cond unit.

Daikin air cond wiring
Power point near the outside compressor.
Switch near the inside air cond unit.

If Daikin use Regular air cond wiring configuration, then can work but warranty, negated

If use Daikin air cond wiring configuration, in future cannot change other brands.

What Air cond are you using??
looking for alternative to Daikin now.

ok i'll check it out . if use regular power point location, I'll be very interested.

This is what I understand.
Air-cond has 2 parts,
Outside Compressor and inside the air-cond unit.
Power point usually near the inside unit for most air cond.
For Daikin, The "official/recommended" power point is to be near the outside compressor unit.
A workaround can be done by the installer but then it will not be the "official/recommended" configuration.