Amana Side?

all that Asian stuff seems to be doing pretty well. Who makes them? Is it Daikin? Long line set? Are you going to need some ref? You’re gonna get the case coil as well?

I don’t know anything about the filtration system

Doubt this will help, but here goes. We take care of my accountants office building. They have three Daiken mini splits, these have been trouble free for the last seven years. I have two Fujistsu mini splits, they have been trouble free for nine years.

I have not seen an Amana unit (yet).

Daikin owns Amana so definitely involves Daikin tech, but not really relevant. Looks like most US unitary manufacturers are trying out some side discharge inverters for their regular unitary lineup. Ours recently announced one as well. No doubt it has something to do with the mini split brands making coils that attach to a regular air handler/furnace that communicate with their outdoor units. I would think Daikin has an advantage here since they have been manufacturing both style systems for a long time now.

Daikin besides Amana, also owns Goodman and most Amana equipment is identical to Goodman. Well, practically identical, my Amana outdoor unit has horizontal slots in the sheet metal instead of vertical like the Goodman equivalent.

A lot of people bash Goodman, so, take it for what it's worth.

I've been using it as well as Amana because I think @pecmsg 's comment is more true than not, so all of the bashing probably doesn't mean much.

I think the official term is, horizontal unit

Maytag bought Amana in the early 2000's, Amana was independent before that. Whirlpool bought Maytag around 2008 so Whirlpool now owns Amana but it looks like probably Amana sold the hvac part of their business to Goodman, maybe trying to generate some cash to stay out of bankruptcy.

Goodman bought Amana in 1997 then sold the appliance part to Maytag in 2002.