Portable Air Conditioning fit for a B

Note that the picture shows it blowing RIGHT ON YOU.

Since it does nothing to reduce the humidity....and probably increases it....I think it's usefulness in a small room sized space is......NILL.

The cheapest way to help out the AC is finding a big shade tree.... and when we didnt have that we tossed one of those dual sided/one sided aluminum tarps over the top of the RVan and bungee it down to block the sun on that side. This happened, it was Michigan, 100+oc, 98 in the RVan with AC full blast, tarp went up and temp dropped 20o.

For just a little more you can get a portable AC on rollers from Home Depot or Lowe's. When 2 of our 3 AC's went out in Albuq, NM 2 wks ago, DH bought one for us.

Thank Goodness, because the 3rd one in the BR went out 5 days later. They can be set to remove humidity.

This is a Class B question. I don't think one of those Costco portable roll around air conditioners is going to work with limited space. :)

That cooler looks more like a cold fan for personal comfort. I doubt it would contribute any cooling to a space. At $299 the cooler itself would have to be as efficient as a Yeti type cooler with 5 day ice cube holding time to be worth it. And then people question the value of those kind of coolers as well.

Well, I saw it and I was shocked at how cold the air was coming out of it. No, I did not have the equipment to check the humidity dispersed in the air. No, it does not blow right on you. The hose can be fully articulated on a semi-sphere radius.

I live in a very hot part of the country. Not everywhere everyone goes has high humidity (think Arizona, NM, Utah, etc.).

I was also shocked at the quality of the build. This is no Styrofoam cooler and it is not a Coleman cooler. I have been in full sun in Colorado when the ambient outside temp was 85 and humidity less than 20% and the inside of any of three Bs we owned would be in excess of 100 with the genset and AC running.

This is not appropriate for everyone, but I posted it because with my 20+ years of owning Bs I knew of many trips when it would have worked for me. Dry ice, anyone?

:)

It's not an evaporative cooler, aka swamp cooler. It has a heat exchanger (radiator) in it so it's not going to depend on low humidity to work.

PSW wrote:
Dry ice, anyone?

A caution: dry ice is CO2, not good for in an enclosed place.

Davydd wrote:
This is a Class B question. I don't think one of those Costco portable roll around air conditioners is going to work with limited space.

Well I got a used LG on wheels for my DH and another kind for my friend's Shasta. (Craigs list, $100ea). And they work very well indeed. In fact, DH used the LG in a tent before we got the teardrop. It really does help to be able to run a hose to a door and let it dribble out in dehumidifying mode.

hitchup wrote:
For just a little more you can get a portable AC on rollers from Home Depot or Lowe's.

Did you read what I posted about those units ?
Did you understand it ??

They are only slightly better than nothing.

Have you looked at the roof mounted 12v a/c systems. I've thought a lot about these because my wife does most of her riding laying down in back because of her legs. Gets hot back there even with the front a/c going full blast. Would be nice to have both.

Seems like most are some kind of custom install and they aren't cheap. But I like this better than running my genset down the road to run that 120v a/c.