Newbies from Corpus Christi, TX
Hi everyone, So glad we found this website! We just bought our first camper ever, a Jayco Baja 10y, and we are super stoked!!! We just bought the camper from Wisconsin and some family members of mi...
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Terri... you gotta think "Redneck"... since the A/C unit sits about 4 inches from the outside of the screen when it's set up, I found it fairly easy to fashion a "collector vent" of sorts out of poster board and duct tape, which, when attached to the front of the unit, is positioned so that it presses firmly against the screen.
To visualize this homegrown affair, try to imagine the forward "barrel" portion of your favorite hand-held hair dryer, only instead of it being cylindrical and made of plastic, this one is rectangular and made of poster board... oh, and it blows cold instead of hot air.
We're rarely laying around inside the PUP during the heat of the day, so the only time (so far) when cooling has been critical has been at night, and we've found this set-up to be really quite nice.
The unit itself is as you jokingly suspected, a 5K BTU window unit for a house! Home Depot sells them for just over $100, it's 17 x 11 x 12 (W,H,D), rated for 150 square feet, which more than covers our 6 x 7 bunk area (with curtains drawn), and at 40 lbs, it weighs half of what the roof-mount does. Best part is that it draws only 550 watts of power, an easy load for our little 1KW genny.
Next time I get a chance, I'll snap a photo of it all set up... it's not nearly as "Tobacco Road" as it may sound... actually, I'd say it's more "Beverly Hillbillys"... if you even old enough to make that kind of distinction. ;)
To visualize this homegrown affair, try to imagine the forward "barrel" portion of your favorite hand-held hair dryer, only instead of it being cylindrical and made of plastic, this one is rectangular and made of poster board... oh, and it blows cold instead of hot air.
We're rarely laying around inside the PUP during the heat of the day, so the only time (so far) when cooling has been critical has been at night, and we've found this set-up to be really quite nice.
The unit itself is as you jokingly suspected, a 5K BTU window unit for a house! Home Depot sells them for just over $100, it's 17 x 11 x 12 (W,H,D), rated for 150 square feet, which more than covers our 6 x 7 bunk area (with curtains drawn), and at 40 lbs, it weighs half of what the roof-mount does. Best part is that it draws only 550 watts of power, an easy load for our little 1KW genny.
Next time I get a chance, I'll snap a photo of it all set up... it's not nearly as "Tobacco Road" as it may sound... actually, I'd say it's more "Beverly Hillbillys"... if you even old enough to make that kind of distinction. ;)
