inverter air con

[Kappy]

Excellent, very inspiring, where did you hide the wiring?

[T1 Terry]

Excellent, very inspiring, where did you hide the wiring?

The white covers are over the block on the solar panel where the wires come out and go under the next solar panel. The cables thread through pieces of Thermoclear to keep them in order so panel/cable identification remains possible. This was needed as each group of 6 panels link in a neutral block and on to a length of 6B&S cable and on to its own circuit breaker. Towards the top of the photo it looks like 3 short chimneys, the one each side is a breather and the centre is the junction box where the cables join in groups and the 6B&S goes through the roof and on to the front boot.
This is the junction box

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a few connections in there eh The cables run up each side under the panels, then across and into the junction box with a modified piece of rectangular plastic down pipe over them, all to keep the cockatoos from chewing the cables, after one event I'm extra careful these days.
Jon has a wicked sense of humour, he handed me a tube of cool room sealant (the baby shitte brown stuff) to seal the cables in the gland nuts..... if you have ever used never-seize you will relate to its ability to get every where, a rag soaked in metho to clean all the tools, cables, benchtops and near a head to toe wash to clean up afterwards

[Kappy]

Did you re wire from the panels to junction?

[T1 Terry]

Did you re wire from the panels to junction?

All the wiring on the solar and lithium part is my mess, can't claim responsibility for the main vehicle 12v wiring, some electrical wizard in the US gets to claim fame for that Much of the other wiring including all the 240vac is Jon's work as he is ticketed to do all that and much more, but that is his story to tell not mine The installation of the split system air con is a work of art, no evidence that it wasn't part of the original design and the head unit locations cool the whole unit.... and it is a big unit once the slide-outs or set up for living mode

T1 Terry

[aussiejohnny]

i've gone a different way and installed a house type invertor split system on the rear of my caravan. the roof top one will be removed shortly and turned into a skylight.

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[aussiejohnny]

The rooftop system is ducted throughout the van, i am going to make a fibreglass shroud over the a/c's head and duct to the rear most roof ducting so it can then be ducted through the fan like it originally was.

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[T1 Terry]

Looks interesting and a very neat job, looking forward to more photos of the inside fibreglass redirection venting, that has always been the issue with wall mount units. Hope Collyn Rivers doesn't see that air con on the rear bumper or we will all be in trouble A few more photos of how you ducted the air into the outside unit would be good as well, at least I think that is what can be partly seen in the second photo.

T1 Terry

[aussiejohnny]

thanks, i made the main unit mounts and power box mount myself. installed the main unit and head unit. just got a sparky to wire in the power box w/rcd etc. and a a/c bloke to do the gas pipes through the holes i had cut for the job.

ducting? as in the gas pipes etc? i cut a hole in the floor under the corner cupboard and it is all routed up through the cupboard and into the head unit.

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haha.. yes i've seen many debates on rear bumper mounted things. the rear bumper on this is very well made with rather thick steel, remember in the states they even tow their boat etc. behind these.

[T1 Terry]

Thank you Aussie Johnny, the other ducting I was looking at it the surround on the outside unit, from the photo the electrical switch box is sort of shrouded by it. The concealed pipe work looks very neat too.

T1 Terry

[aussiejohnny]

oh. the outside unit has it's own plastic cover that 'hides' all the fittings etc.. the power box i made the stand for it and the sparky installed the rcd and waterproof plug using sealed plastic boxes to mount them in.

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