Question about portable AC units and amperage
Hi all, My wife and I just purchased a 2006 Keystone Outback 30' travel trailer. It has the built in carrier air rv unit that is working ok. I'm concerned that it may go out while camping in the Tex...
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I just purchased a high end portable ac unit for my winter home in Florida.
I took it back the next day.
That exhaust hose gets HOT and emits a ton of heat into the room. And the intake on the one I bought was in the back right next to the hose. So all it was doing was sucking in the heat from the hose.:R
After plugging it in, the humidity in the room doubled and the ac unit spent the next 10 hours trying to cool the heat from the exhaust hose not the room.
Went on line and there were tons of complaints about the heat from the hose, and there were tests showing the heat coming off the hose to be 100 degrees plus. Then their were a hundred different websites where people were making and/or selling ridiculous tacky looking insulation fixes for the hose.
AND you have to move it to drain the water off every so many hours depending on how high the humidity is where you live. If you forget to drain it it shuts off. Mine had no drain hose just an opening so you had to take it to the front door and hope for the best draining.
Just saying this is what I experienced just this week with a portable. I'd REALLY look into all what a portable does and does not do before you leap into buying one. I didn't and just bought one, what a mistake.
Especially the draining of the water. The reservoir size was very very small. If you left your RV for any length of time if the water tank filled up the ac will shut down. You'd be coming back to one hot RV.
And I am guessing that in a small RV that heat from the hose is going to just add a considerable amount of additional heat to the RV.
I took it back the next day.
That exhaust hose gets HOT and emits a ton of heat into the room. And the intake on the one I bought was in the back right next to the hose. So all it was doing was sucking in the heat from the hose.:R
After plugging it in, the humidity in the room doubled and the ac unit spent the next 10 hours trying to cool the heat from the exhaust hose not the room.
Went on line and there were tons of complaints about the heat from the hose, and there were tests showing the heat coming off the hose to be 100 degrees plus. Then their were a hundred different websites where people were making and/or selling ridiculous tacky looking insulation fixes for the hose.
AND you have to move it to drain the water off every so many hours depending on how high the humidity is where you live. If you forget to drain it it shuts off. Mine had no drain hose just an opening so you had to take it to the front door and hope for the best draining.
Just saying this is what I experienced just this week with a portable. I'd REALLY look into all what a portable does and does not do before you leap into buying one. I didn't and just bought one, what a mistake.
Especially the draining of the water. The reservoir size was very very small. If you left your RV for any length of time if the water tank filled up the ac will shut down. You'd be coming back to one hot RV.
And I am guessing that in a small RV that heat from the hose is going to just add a considerable amount of additional heat to the RV.
