lfhoward wrote:I have no experience with AC in my trailer-- just want to say that up front. Recently I've seen a couple of different units on YouTube that look pretty good. One is a rooftop unit that fits in the 14" x 14" ceiling fan hole, called a Velit AC. The Velit is 12 volt and much more efficient than rooftop AC units you would find on RV's. The other is a portable AC unit by EcoFlow. It can be plugged into your trailer's battery, portable solar panels, or its own battery pack and be viable off grid. Both seem to be promoted fairly heavily on the overland & off-road based YouTube channels I watch, so I bet you can find them with a quick google. Both solutions are expensive, but then again so was the ClimateRight, so maybe they won't break your bank.
Tom&Shelly wrote:lfhoward wrote:I have no experience with AC in my trailer-- just want to say that up front. Recently I've seen a couple of different units on YouTube that look pretty good. One is a rooftop unit that fits in the 14" x 14" ceiling fan hole, called a Velit AC. The Velit is 12 volt and much more efficient than rooftop AC units you would find on RV's. The other is a portable AC unit by EcoFlow. It can be plugged into your trailer's battery, portable solar panels, or its own battery pack and be viable off grid. Both seem to be promoted fairly heavily on the overland & off-road based YouTube channels I watch, so I bet you can find them with a quick google. Both solutions are expensive, but then again so was the ClimateRight, so maybe they won't break your bank.
I'm skeptical about the ability of a 12 volt air conditioner to do the job without a large 12 volt infrastructure: Large battery capacity, large solar panels to charge back up, and so forth. Calculations a few years ago were not optimistic. With lithium batteries it may be possible, and EcoFlow claims it is (not sure about Velit), barely. Just beware and consider the consequences of a cloudy day or two. Of course Bruce can probably do it with his rig, but look at the electrical system in his rig!
Possibly though, the Ecoflow and Velit systems are built for the vibrations of travel, in which case running them with shore power and a converter may make sense. I have no experience with them and can't say.
We were able to get a ClimateRight a few years ago and are happy with it. (120 vac, shore power only.) If it breaks, our options are to fix it or convert a wall unit, but it sounds like wall units may not handle travel as well.
Speaking to the limit of my knowledge.
Tom
Tom&Shelly wrote:Simple matter of thermodynamics.
The link I posted for the swamp cooler above is an indirect unit, meaning it doesn't pump moist air into the interior. I'm with you, there's no way I would use a direct unit in such a small space as a camper. That being said here's the DC A/C unit I have my eye on for the van. It's pretty new to the market so I'm waiting to see what the feedback is on the forums before I commit. I have a big enough battery in the van that I could run it without shore power overnight:philpom wrote:I would be afraid that a swamp cooler would make the inside damp over time and entice mold/mildew. I am going with an external A/C carried in the back of the truck when needed and vented in to the camper with 6" duct and inline fans. When not needed I just won't bring it.
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