We purchased a very reasonably priced Blueway Split Inverter Air Conditioner for our living room from Harvey Norman. The Air Conditioner is a Blueway AS24-VR with 6000watt cooling capacity (we don’t really care about the heating up here in the tropics, but the air conditioner also has 8000watt heating capacity).
As you can see in the photo the head unit of the AS24-VR is quite large. It almost didn’t fit between the ceiling and the window, which was a problem we hadn’t planned for in purchasing an air conditioner.
The external compressor unit of the Blueway air conditioner I have found to be very quiet, but like the head unit the compressor unit is quite large.
The Blueway Air Conditioner does an adequate job at cooling our main living area, but given the odd shape of the room I don’t think any other air conditioning brand would do any better. The swing mechanism on the head unit doesn’t have much range, so to get it to blow straight out into the overhead fan I need to manually adjust the swing mechanism.
The air conditioning installation technician didn’t have much bad to say about the units. He reckons that they run pretty well and he hasn’t noticed any difference in reliability over most of the other better known brands. This is pretty good considering that the Blueway air conditioner was close to half the price of some of the better known brands.
Being in Townsville I haven’t really had any need to use the heater function, but like I said, it’s there if you want it.
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Lou Tomati // Jan 15, 2008 at 3:53 am
We have one as well and like you say it does what it’s supposed to at half the price.
Just wondering did HN tell you if you can attach another head to the unit for another room?
Bill Hutchison // Jan 18, 2008 at 12:57 am
I was never told that we could attach a second head, but we did our Blue Way Air Conditioner from Harvey Norman though.
Unfortunately information on Blueway Air Conditioners is very limited on-line, so I can’t even find anything referring to that.
Did Harvey Norman tell you that you could add a second head? If so that might be an option for us to add the second head for master bedroom, which is right under the living room, with the compressor just outside master bedroom the window.
Lou Tomati // Jan 20, 2008 at 11:18 pm
I called Harvey Norman and asked if we could attach a second head to the compressor and the answer is “NO” as this unit is not built for it.
He told me it’s far cheaper to buy a small unit for the bedroom with another compressor for around $500 plus about $450 for installation.
Bill Hutchison // Jan 21, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Thanks for the information about the Dual Heads on the Blueway Airconditioners.
I know that there are a few different air conditioner manufacturers that offer the dual head option, but for the price I don’t mind that the Blueway doesn’t support the two air conditioning heads on the single compressor.
Avijit Saha // May 24, 2008 at 2:47 am
Please advise me, how to use remote operate for Blueway air conditioner, specially for heater.
Bill Hutchison // May 24, 2008 at 3:08 am
Living in North Queensland we have never actually had to run the heater on our Blueway Air Conditioner.
I just tried it now and when I set it to heater nothing happens. I don’t know if that’s because it is already quite warm here (although I set the Air Conditioner to 30C), or something else.
You might want to check with Harvey Norman, who is the only reseller I have heard of selling Blueway Air Conditioners. They might be able to give you a hand, or have a manual in their store that they can look at.
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Gary Chapman // Jul 9, 2008 at 6:51 am
Have a Blueway airconditioner installed (split unit) I have trouble with remote control batteries inside of a week. Could you assist with any information on this matter. The controls have a number on the back, which is ZH/LW-10
Bill Hutchison // Jul 13, 2008 at 4:28 am
Your best bet would be to contact Harvey Norman about it.
Usually the batteries that come with remotes though are pretty cheap and don’t last long. It would probably be worth trying out some new batteries to see if that fixes it.
Gary Chapman // Jul 13, 2008 at 7:33 am
I have been using good alkaline batteries (Duracel and Evertready) in the remote, but they still only last a week.
Bill Hutchison // Jul 13, 2008 at 10:19 am
I would say that the remote is probably faulty. One of the buttons could be stuck on, making the remote constantly transmit.
I would bring it in to Harvey Norman and hope that they can give you a new remote.
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