
I'm not game to start the process of swapping it out for one of these https://www.airwaresales.com.au/product ... 60zsxawvh/
because as soon as I start, it will either rain or drop to single digit temps .....
T1 Terry
That's pretty expensiveT1 Terry wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:14 pm Hopefully I'm back on again. Yesterday, it was so hot the bus air con was way out of its league Inside bus temp 2.jpg even though it had been running for around 4 hrs at that stage![]()
I'm not game to start the process of swapping it out for one of these https://www.airwaresales.com.au/product ... 60zsxawvh/
because as soon as I start, it will either rain or drop to single digit temps .....
T1 Terry
BernieQ2 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:37 pmThat's pretty expensiveT1 Terry wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:14 pm Hopefully I'm back on again. Yesterday, it was so hot the bus air con was way out of its league Inside bus temp 2.jpg even though it had been running for around 4 hrs at that stage![]()
I'm not game to start the process of swapping it out for one of these https://www.airwaresales.com.au/product ... 60zsxawvh/
because as soon as I start, it will either rain or drop to single digit temps .....
T1 Terry
The ceiling cassette units are designed to fit inside a false ceiling or house room ceiling with the workings up inside the ceiling cavity, no waterproof cover or pretty looking outside. It will require a cover to be made to go over it. I haven't been on the roof to measure how high the Ibus is above the roofline, but looking at the specs, from the inside flange that mounts against the ceiling to the top of the cassette ranges between 230h to 270h for the bigger output units. The plus/minus is that they are square, 575 x 575, smaller on the outside but a bigger hole than the 350 sq hole the rooftop rattler slots into.supersparky wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:14 pm T1, I checked out most of the roof rattlers at our local caravan and camping show a week or so ago. None of the on-site sales people knew much about the Houghton units. But a lot of them are fitted to various vans and small m/homes.
I was kinda hoping that the Dometic rep was there, but no.
I'm looking at fitting a splitty of some sort instead of a roof rattler. Maybe. The cassette units still need a compressor unit to go somewhere as well. I reckon a splitty is the go, more space for some extra solar and a bit of a height reduction.
Even the 6kW model with the boosted performance to bring it up to 7kW, it draws is specced at 2530w, under 100 amps from the nominal 24v LFP battery pack and the average draw is 1770w or 69 amps.BruceS wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:57 pm Terry to be realistic, considering a MH is nothing more than a big box with air circulating on all 6 sides and with all those lovely windows around it, there is very unlikely to ever be a satisfactory outcome. Maybe a 7Kw cooling split domestic job plugged into an outside power supply?
To ever power what you're looking for via solar just ain't gunna cut it! To even come close it'll be between 10:30am & 4:30PM. You know that once the sun heats up the panels, the output is restricted? After that your batteries might last a couple of hours.