First let s find out how each brand divides its product in series.
Trane or carrier gas furnace.
Carrier and lennox use the series name to divide the quality of their product carrier has three series comfort as the basic series.
Comfort basic performance better and infinity best lennox.
Both carrier and trane regulates who has access to their equipment with specific training requirements for the hvac contractors who will sell them.
Gas furnaces are typically more efficient and offer lower fuel costs but are more expensive than oil furnaces up front.
An oil furnace generates heat using oil while gas furnaces are fueled by natural gas propane.
These brands have many similarities.
Gas furnace reliability 2016 consumer reports given this data bryant carrier and trane american standard tend to be the most popular brands homeowners choose when purchasing a furnace from us rheem and ruud aren t as common here in the northwest.
The company has owned the bryant brand for many years and the two brands gas furnace are identical or nearly so in every model.
Carrier trane and lennox furnaces have similarities in certain feature including efficiency condensing technology wifi system and full hvac.
Oil furnaces are typically priced lower and provide more heat per btu but are less efficient.
They can be described as basic better and best.
Both the trane and the carrier gas furnaces are two stage gas furnace operation.
They both had similar afue efficiency ratings with carrier getting the edge by a fraction of a percent.
Where the similarities end is with the control and the blower.
Carrier recently march 2020 split off from united technologies corporation and is independent.
Merit basic elite better and signature series best.
All make a large lineup of gas furnaces trane 15 carrier 12 and lennox 13 to meet consumer demand for price and feature options.
Carrier and bryant gas furnaces.