Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Can anyone tell me if there Air Conditioning with inverter has made it much cheaper than normal AC. I am thinking of upgrading but is it worth it?

unless you want to heat the house in winter I would say it would be cheaper to keep the old ones you may save a small amount in electric but then way up the cost of new inverters

I have inverters and unless we were sold rubbish (which I don't believe we were) I think my inverters are rubbish in winter.

Our inverters are great , great both winter & summer

ginge wrote: ↑

Thu 31 Jul 2025 4:04 pm

Our inverters are great , great both winter & summer

Ours too, much more efficient, winter and summer. Still have one old type, no where near as efficient but don't use it very often.

We use both kinds, our attitude is they both work very efficiently. To us the outlay of a new machine would probably be a few years electric bills as it's only 3 months of the year we may go over 300 units.

I would definitely replace with an inverter if they stopped working.

I agree with ginge and mrsgee

Tanky wrote: ↑

Fri 01 Aug 2025 6:01 am

I agree with ginge and mrsgee

Us as well, well worth the money to get them.

I've always taken the attitude in this type of scenario, that whilst there may be an initial outlay, that outlay will support local businesses, and afterwards means that there will be less money from my bills funding the bonuses and dividends for corporate bosses. Of course they'll not even notice the difference when my bills are issued, but I will when I pay them and if any equipment ever ends up paying for itself in the longer term then it's a bonus for me.

We changed a couple of 20 year old Bosh units for new inverters.
Amazingingly faster especially on heat
Well worth it just for the comfort and speed

We just bought a bosch 24 btu 41000 tl. There are cheaper options but my wife just likes bosch ..zero research done really if any good but if it makes the wife happy...the old one wasnt broke but old no complaints so far. Had the ac running 24/7 in 1 or 2 rooms for july bill came in at 10000 tl..i was pleased with that as it seemed similar to last summer and i was bracing for more...outside july august its much much less maybe 2000 tl. All inverters . My others are fuji 2 of which we have water leak issues but its to do with the way the pipes have been laid inside the property. It needs some attention.

there is a saying: it is not expensive to buy an ac, it is expensive to run.
so, if you have an older ac in a guest room which is used 2 times a year for 2 weeks, keep it. in nearly all other cases change it. master bedroom, lounge a must to change asap.

between the different ac manufacturers and the different kind of models, you have to compare the SEER (seasonal energy efficiency ratio) and the COP (coefficient of performance) .
the more chinese (and often the cheaper) you go, the more you get "beautified" brochures and testing methods.
eg, you get a "presentable" COP only if you want to cool a room from 26 down to 24 degrees, but they are not really good for outside 35 to 25 indoors (= much higher energy consumption as better models).

tmo, at least Bosch, LG, Panasonic, Samsung... but the "better models" only, and as a value for money leader most probably Mitsubishi.
the more time you spent in a room, the more invest. payback sometimes a year or two only, even for the very expensive ones.