I’m trying to build a case to get the contractor who installed my heat pump system to rip it out and refund me… long shot, but I am hopeful.

One of the things I want to bring up would be the actual efficiencies of one to one systems that I could have installed (or likely self install)

I would replace two large outdoor compressors with 6 or 7 smaller ones handling basically identical Mitsubishi heads (FH06 x2, FH09 x2, and either FH12 x 3, or FH12 x 1 and FH18 x 1)
On paper the two outdoor units have MAX SEERS of 18 and 20, whereas the one to one’s have SEERS of 33.1 all around.
I want to provide data showing a comparison of the amount of power being consumed at 18 and 20 vs 33.1, but I want to do it somewhat fairly and skewed towards them so they can’t say that I am providing completely false data.

Based on what I can find the calcs for SEER savings is this (in general):
Savings = (higher seer/lower seer-1)*100
Which under ideal circumstances would translate to:
18 SEER: 83.8% electricity savings
20 SEER: 65.5% electricity savings

Source:https://learnmetrics.com/seer-savings-calculator/

I understand that this is under ideal circumstances, but I was wondering if there was some way to calculate out a (very) rough average SEER that the one to one units would run at?

Even running the calculations as though the one to ones run at 25 SEER on average I would still see 25-38.8% savings…

I live in New England so it does get fairly cold here so I understand it won’t be 100% efficient all the time. I just don’t know how to word the search to find this information.

Thanks!