[tcb] Re: Window A/C units mounted in your bus?

  • From: Mike Hayes <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:36:04 -0500

Ya, if it's really humid it will have allot of water. I had to drill a 1/8 in hole in the lowest part of the unit so it would drain better. Plus I was tied of getting wet everytime I took it off the bus. 


Eric Woodall wrote:
Well mine is pretty much parallel to the ground, slightly tilted to the outside. What's strange is that the first time we hooked it up (at home) when I went to remove it, a ton of water spilled out of it. On Saturday when I removed it hardly any water came off, like the compressor wasn't running (no condensation). 
I need to set it back up in the driveway and see if it's broken or not.

Neil wrote:

Someone may have already covered this, but I discovered that if the unit isn't 
tilted JUST right (toward the outside so water won't come in the bus) it won't 
cool right.
I had the unit tilted too much toward the outside of the bus...it ran but did 
not cool at all...I thought the A/C unit was bad.  Kevin Evans (Kaveman on the 
aircoolers.org site) set me straight.  One slight adjustment and it was in the 
60's in the bus!

--- On Mon, 6/1/09, Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Window A/C units mounted in your bus?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 11:59 AM
Are you over your snake bite Denis?
Did it hurt pretty bad?

Denis wrote:

There is a vent somewhere that will let in outside

air.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Woodall"

<eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 11:55 AM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Window A/C units mounted in your

bus?

What do you mean by "vent open on the unit"?

Denis wrote:

You should feel very cold air from the unit.

Maybe you had the vent

open on the unit. Every bus I have ever been

in with a window unit was

like a meat locker.





----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric

Woodall" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: "Texas Coalition of Buses" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:42 AM
Subject: [tcb] Window A/C units mounted in

your bus?

Hey everyone,
As you may or may not know, we camped at

Lake Somerville this weekend

(all sick with a cold - yuck).
On Saturday, when we were trying to put

Gray down for a nap, it was so

hot in the van that it just wasn't gonna

happen.

The window unit that we have installed is

a 6,500 BTU Haier unit.  Now

either this unit completely sucks, or

cooling a Vanagon in the heat of

the day is an impossible proposition.
So, my question is this to all you window

mounted A/C people.

Does your air conditioner allow you to

stay uber-cool in the heat

of the
day inside your vehicle?

Eric

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