AC Condensation drip

My Coachman does not have a gutter system like some are referring to where you can put a clothes pin or gutter extender. Mine is designed so the water falls where it wants :( I've been thinking of using dicor self leveling to make a path over to the slide gutter rail, my only concern is pooling on the roof...

MountainAir05 wrote:
The next time you are doing your A/C service, check and see what type drain you have now. Find a 90 degree and connect a 3/8, or what every size you need, clear hose to it and stick down with Dicor or any other product you like or use, and angle toward the edge. We have dometic air conditioners and the 3/8 was the right size.

Thanks! This sounds like exactly what I need to do. I just didn't want to reinvent the wheel if there was already a product made to do the same thing. Great solution.

Just take a wooden clothes pin with the spring in it and clip it to your RV down spout on each corner. Water will flow down the cloths pin and drip far enough away from the wall, it won't drip on the wall. Try it. If it don't work, then consider something else. Of course when you're on the road, you need to take them off.

Depends on the A/C.. And I really do not care for them in any case.

Here is the solution.....

On one of my two A/C's there is an optional drain cup, this will fit on either of them but only one offers it as an option.. This is a cup with a drain hose fitting that basically attaches to the drip tray just under the drip lip.. (If you do not know what these terms mean remove the outer cover from the A/C and look, you should be able to figure it out in under 10 seconds)

The drip lip is where the water drips out of the tray.

From here you use a hose, which you can route to the drip down point of your choice.

The problem.. You now have this hose you have to attach to the roof. IF alge builds up in the hose (Happened at work with the big Lippert) you have a problem so you now have to clean it from time to time.

But the water goes where you route it.

Fact... My last trailer I had a window AC mounted in the front window, Actually worked rather well.

I put a funnel on the thing and drilled a hole so it dripped into the funnel, then used tubing to get it down past the LP tanks since I did not want it dripping on the tanks, worked well and was easy to clean if it clogged (only a few feet of tubing).

This would NOT work on the rooftop units as there is no room for the funnel, but the drip cup that Advent Air offers .. Does the same thing.

The next time you are doing your A/C service, check and see what type drain you have now. Find a 90 degree and connect a 3/8, or what every size you need, clear hose to it and stick down with Dicor or any other product you like or use, and angle toward the edge. We have dometic air conditioners and the 3/8 was the right size.

Dick_B wrote:
We use the (Camping World) snap-on gutter extensions that install on the ends of the gutters (4 needed). They divert the water away from the sidewalls and amazingly are still attached despite my dragging the cover over them many times per season.
Doesn't the water take the path of lease resistance depending on how you set up the rig ie. front low/high, left side low/high?

I have seen those but I still need to get the water from the AC to the gutter. Depending on where we park, I can't always get "just enough" angle to get it to the same place every time.

We use the (Camping World) snap-on gutter extensions that install on the ends of the gutters (4 needed). They divert the water away from the sidewalls and amazingly are still attached despite my dragging the cover over them many times per season.
Doesn't the water take the path of lease resistance depending on how you set up the rig ie. front low/high, left side low/high?

I had some air conditioner run off going down my rear windows. I installed a long length of 1-inch angle material to the roof area to divert the water off to the sides. I more or less glued the section of angle material to the roof using DICOR...

Even just a long strip of weather stripping that has the peel off adhesive back might work also. Anything to divert the water flow away from your windshield area...

Somthing like this might work for you too...

Roy Ken

Don't think so. On the $400K MHs they run a drain down through a hose inside the wall somewhere. I just live with it. PITA.