Who said anything about anger? I love watching you slightly change your words in a pisspoor attempt to regain cred. When you said there would be no changes till 2010, you were wrong. R-410a units have been available for quite some time...any ACTUAL Trane dealer should know that...and they were meant to replace R-22 from the getgo. I'm not the one backpedaling like a little bitch. You wanna split hairs with your little webster's dictionary definition, fine. Let's say R-22 isn't obsolete. If you were installing a unit on YOUR house TOMORROW, would you put in an R-22 system knowing damn well that you'll pay out your ass for a drum of it in 10 years when the system needs recharging? Well, Trane units may need it sooner...they ARE, in fact, rush jobs. I've toured the Tyler facility.
In fact, as I previously stated (and you previously missed due to lack of reading skills), I've been installing Trane units for some time now and very recently finished a rooftop package unit and guess what? The transformer in the brand new low-ambient kit was bad from factory....happens with a lot of new Trane equipment. I can remember ONE RUUD part that was bad at startup in 6 years of installing them. It was the pressure switch in a residential furnace that somehow got a tiny piece of the foam packaging inside. Fixed it in 5 minutes. I'm still waiting on the new part from Trane after 5 days.
I'm not gonna completely bash Trane products...I install them all the time. But when you come out blasting RUUD/Rheem for no reason, you show just how ignorant you really are. The ONLY reason Trane is so prevalent in commercial applications (once again for the slow kid in the room) is the Summitt system it can tie into. Trane equipment is nothing special. Trane CONTROLS and SERVICE REPS are what make the company what it is. Anybody can sell it (or claim to), but it takes someone with intelligence to install/service/control the damned things.
So just keep on tweeking your own words little by little to avoid the obvious fact that you started an argument with the wrong MF. Before long, you'll be saying exactly what I am. Anyone with half a brain can see that any dealer with R-22 systems STILL in stock either got them REALLY cheap (and gets mad when someone informs the public that they're selling last decade's equipment), or must be eating lots of PB&J and government cheese because they move condensers like old people fuck....verrrrrrrrrrrry slllooooowwwwly (if at all).