Exterior window shades

cav123 wrote:
I see most of the newer campers have them panels that are dark over the windows I dont know if the windows are made with these panels or are they
are and add on. we camped over the weekend and almost had to come home cause
the temp in the camper did not want to cool down of course in south Louisiana
sometimes the temps get real bad.

Most of these are on the inside, and frankly do very little to help heat buildup. the heats already in the trailer.

Trailers have two major problems. Large surface to volume ratio, and lots of windows. Windows, no matter what you do have a low R factor. Then the fact that for the trailer volume you have lots of exterior surface area heating up, no matter what the insulation is.

We found that to keep the trailer comfortable in high temps make sure the AC is turned on very early, don't let the temp rise and expect the AC to bring it down. Keep it down and hope the AC doesn't let it rise much.
shade, shade, and more shade for the windows on the outside.
Even using the 3M window shrink film on the inside to make a poor man's double pane window will help a lot.