Air Conditioner
Sitting in the trailer (smallish with single AC unit), after a long days drive, with ac on, as it is a gazillion degrees outside, and am wondering - why are the RV ACs so darn loud? I was up on the ro...
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StirCrazy wrote:jyenter wrote:
If you have a ducted system get one of these, https://wackoproducts.com/products/. Have one and it cuts the noise considerable.
I went and watched the video and ya it made a 2db difference which I would have thought it would do more, but what I didn't like was it disabled your cooling dump and you have to take the whole cover off with 4 screws to change / clean the filter. My AC is in the main area of the RV not the bedroom so when we are in there, I open that dump, so more cooling is going into the main area and keeping that space comfortable then when it is night, I close it so more goes to the bedrooms. if some one could make a system that keeps that feature available it would be great.
On our coleman Mach III it made a HUGE difference. Way more than 2db. Enough so that I often just run the AC on low fan to keep air circulating and noise level is very low. But then the MachIII is pretty noisy to start with.
I didn't do any before measurements, but today the AC is running on high and with my phone db meter standing directly under the AC unit it measures 56db at waist level, and sitting in the recliners it's 48db.
"normal" conversation is around 60db. Sitting in my living room now with no AC running, no tv etc my phone registers 40db and says "quiet living room"
I agree, the removal of the "air dump" feature is a downside, I wish there was a way to keep the air dump, my solution is that I have the aire port celing vents, Ijust close off the ones in the bedroom/bathroom if I want the living area cooled quickly and close off the living area vents if I want the bedroom/bath cooled way down.
