Domestic air cons
- jon_d
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Re: Domestic air cons
Bernie, I did. The guy made up his own cowling. If you have the right skills, you could pull down a house unit and move everything around to make a horizontal one.
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Re: Domestic air cons
Now I'm confused We have asked a friend who is an air conditioning technician to put his 10cents worth in.
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There is an alternative.... there always is eh The part that is too big is the condenser, replace the air to air condenser with a water cooled condenser, then plumb that water via the hot water tank through a heat exchanger coil and on to the radiator for cooling, then back through again. This way the waste heat from the air con is used to heat your hot water, the outside unit is much smaller and an electric fan can be added to the radiator if needed, but there is a lot of water in a bus engine cooling system to heat before the fan was needed.
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Re: Domestic air cons
R U serious??
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That was a bit too complicated to make up as a joke I'm quite serious, you want to be the test pilot for my idea?Dot wrote:R U serious??
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Is exchanging money involved?
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Re: Domestic air cons
Dot, I have the same problem mounting the condenser unit for a split, do you want the split for the entire bus or just the bedroom? I was looking at one of these for our bedroom but SWMBO won't part with any space under the bed and that's the only place I can fit it
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Truma Saphir underbunk
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- Jon and Kay
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6150 btu is only half the required size. You would also have to consider that cold air does not rise, so this would not be an ideal solution.
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Truma Saphir Comfort 8200 btu, plenty big enough for my bedroom
and you could duct it like this
and you could duct it like this
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Re: Domestic air cons
Good system has been used before in specialised vehicles. Would work very well for a normal fridge too.T1 Terry wrote:There is an alternative.... there always is eh The part that is too big is the condenser, replace the air to air condenser with a water cooled condenser, then plumb that water via the hot water tank through a heat exchanger coil and on to the radiator for cooling, then back through again. This way the waste heat from the air con is used to heat your hot water, the outside unit is much smaller and an electric fan can be added to the radiator if needed, but there is a lot of water in a bus engine cooling system to heat before the fan was needed.
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One minor issue would be that the engine and radiator will warm up considerably throughout the day. IF your rig is uncomfortable for sleeping with a hot engine -well, you could always leave on the A/C!!