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BernieQ2 wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2024 6:43 am
jon_d wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2024 6:17 am No Bacon Bernie.

Has a ring to it!.

Morning all, raining here today. How big is the outside unit Bernie?
I will measure it later Jon
Jon...
It's 95 wide 70 high and 38 deep. The width includes that control thingy on the right.
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The Daikin 7.1 Kw outside unit measures 940 x 788 x 320, so close enough to the same dimensions. The height is the only thing that will require a bit of rework to get it in a side bin, I'll probably change from 2 x 125 ltr gas tanks to a single 250ltr and mount the outside unit where the 125 ltr tank was mounted.
I doubt that will be a pre xmas job :lol:

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Good morning everyone, its a beautiful sunny morning here nd a on the banks of the Bellinger River.
We did a bit of exploring yesty, and some shopping in Coffs Harbour. Might have a look around Macksville today.
There is quite a lot of low lying dairy country around here, a 1m rise in sea level would change a lot of property boundaries. But that's for another thread.
Have a great day everybody, safe travels.
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Good morning everyone.
Sunday was relaxing 😎
That means I didn't mow... maybe today.
Herself will be off to bingo today with her mate's...
The sugar mill at Isis is up and running again... next door went to work last night.
When I put the aircon in the Isuzu the outside box was in the boot, just a short run straight up to the head unit above the beds.. wasn't all that hard... but every application is different due to access...
Enjoy your stay Dave hopefully that nagging cough will go.
Keep safe.
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Morning all.

Rained most of yesterday. Boys are home from schoolies. Funny, schoolies week seems like when the kids feldge the nest.
When I put the aircon in the Isuzu the outside box was in the boot, just a short run straight up to the head unit above the beds.. wasn't all that hard... but every application is different due to access...
I had a hell of a time trying to find a spot for mine. Even at 2.xkw, it was too tall. It wasn't going to be visible from the outside like most hanging out the back or something. That's one reason why it's behind the diff. Apart from fitting in width wise, it had to pop up though the floor a little. (80mm). The bonus was it didn't take up 'bin' space.

Terry, how big are the side bins?
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Jon, that's one of the benefits of building your own motorhome from scratch, you get to decide what goes where. We don't gave anywhere in our Winnie to fit an airco base unit. There are watert tanks and slideout mechanical bits in every potential spot. T1 might be a little luckier, I don't think he has the slideouts to worry about.
If you could lay one of those base units over and reorientate the compressor, that would be handy, but a fridgy I know told me that wasn't a good idea.
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f you could lay one of those base units over and reorientate the compressor, that would be handy, but a fridgy I know told me that wasn't a good idea.
I was looking at doing that too. However, I think it's just not the compressor.
The oil needs to be able to flow and drain. Can't have it forming a lock. ...
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Thats what that fella said to me as well. There must be a way, but there are more important things on my list.
Fridge and solar first, then look at other stuff.
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supersparky wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 7:53 am Jon, that's one of the benefits of building your own motorhome from scratch, you get to decide what goes where. We don't gave anywhere in our Winnie to fit an airco base unit. There are watert tanks and slideout mechanical bits in every potential spot. T1 might be a little luckier, I don't think he has the slideouts to worry about.
If you could lay one of those base units over and reorientate the compressor, that would be handy, but a fridgy I know told me that wasn't a good idea.
Agree, all my travelling vehicles I've fitted out myself from scratch. Buying a fitted out one is always much more expensive and have always made a profit by doing it myself when reselling, even if the profit is just a few dollars. Looking for a smaller vehicle for travelling now the band is practically extinct and will fit that out as soon as sell the 78 Bedford, bought it for $4000 back in 2003, spent another $2000 fitting it out using second hand materiels, making the seats myself from front car seats an exhaust brake and updated turbo. Got a bargain for new tyres a few years ago and that's about it. Just have to give it a paint job and put it on the market, painting it with wattyl epoxy anti rust paint and just have to decide the colour to use. Much better than buying auto paint which is extremely expensive and the wattyl does a top job, painted the tipper many years ago and it still looks like a pretty new paint job, except for where I banged it with the backhoe. Fully registered should get over $10000 for it and it still has many klms left in it.

We are getting misty rain every night and morning, days are cloudy and humid for Tas. Went for a surf this morning and actually caught some decent waves without falling off, now to tackle the sidecar. But first must clean out the workshop to get bike and chair inside to do the work. If anyone watches american pickers and some of the places they visit which are full of stuff, well that's what inside my workshop looks like at the moment, stuff everywhere.

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jon_d wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 7:33 am Morning all.

Rained most of yesterday. Boys are home from schoolies. Funny, schoolies week seems like when the kids feldge the nest.
When I put the aircon in the Isuzu the outside box was in the boot, just a short run straight up to the head unit above the beds.. wasn't all that hard... but every application is different due to access...
I had a hell of a time trying to find a spot for mine. Even at 2.xkw, it was too tall. It wasn't going to be visible from the outside like most hanging out the back or something. That's one reason why it's behind the diff. Apart from fitting in width wise, it had to pop up though the floor a little. (80mm). The bonus was it didn't take up 'bin' space.

Terry, how big are the side bins?

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Between 780mm to 1200mm, they vary along each side. Where the LPG tanks are now is already lost space, so the 700mm from the bottom of the bin doors to the under floor can be recessed up under stove and fridge area. The hole for the roof top rattler is roughly the area where the stove is, the fridge is the next spot back, so I can run the pipework and cables up through there and into the roof cavity.
There is 700mm between the bin doors and the chassis rail, so plenty of space that way, the bin where the gas tank I want to delete is 1mtr wide, so plenty of room there as well. The 10Kw outdoor unit would fit fine, but the roof/ceiling units is 280mm bigger on each side (570sq against 840sq) and taller, (244mm against 288mm) overkill redundancy, but probably not worth the lost solar area ..... The 570sq would only protrude 140mm above the roof, the square body would leave enough room to fit 1mtr wide panels tilted from the sides to above the air ceiling unit, and enough space for the narrow solar panels to form a layer up the centre, giving me an additional 500w up the centre, each of these panels installed to lift out to provide a pathway up the centre. No roof access to the ceiling unit required, it drops out from inside if required.

Deleted half that post, it doesn't calculate out quite the same when you mix ft and mtrs up in the calculations :oops: :oops:

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