portable air conditioner in my class A
Has anyone tried portable air conditioner The one with hot air tub out the window . I'm Thinking of using one LG 8000 btu as its lower wattage for my smaller suit case kipor gen 2600w. Specs say 880 w...
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Hi,
You really want a two tube portable A/C. If you use a single tube, then the A/C will take in about 150 CFM of inside cool air, and blow it out the window. Then outside humid and not filtered air will come in, through any cracks in the walls or windows, then bring in humid air to the space you are trying to cool. If you think about it, there is only about 300 square feet X 8 or 2,400 cubic feet, and a single tube A/C can remove all that air in about 20 minutes!
Yes it is nice to use a short garden hose or even a washing machine hose to let the unit drip outside. You can collect a lot of humidity with one of those A/C units.
So your plan is to use a smaller quiet generator to run this A/C? That would be fine. A MSW inverter will not run a high torque motor such as this A/C, but a pure sine wave about 1,800 watts will handle the surge wattage, and run the 800 watt A/C unit.
Some are even buying 800 watts of solar panels, and then run the A/C with that!
SunElec.com has reasonable priced solar panels.
Have fun camping!
Fred.
You really want a two tube portable A/C. If you use a single tube, then the A/C will take in about 150 CFM of inside cool air, and blow it out the window. Then outside humid and not filtered air will come in, through any cracks in the walls or windows, then bring in humid air to the space you are trying to cool. If you think about it, there is only about 300 square feet X 8 or 2,400 cubic feet, and a single tube A/C can remove all that air in about 20 minutes!
Yes it is nice to use a short garden hose or even a washing machine hose to let the unit drip outside. You can collect a lot of humidity with one of those A/C units.
So your plan is to use a smaller quiet generator to run this A/C? That would be fine. A MSW inverter will not run a high torque motor such as this A/C, but a pure sine wave about 1,800 watts will handle the surge wattage, and run the 800 watt A/C unit.
Some are even buying 800 watts of solar panels, and then run the A/C with that!
SunElec.com has reasonable priced solar panels.
Have fun camping!
Fred.
