What size Air Con for Bedroom???

[jayhardy]

I have to take my new 2014 38' Mountaineer in for repair on my air conditioner and I thought I might just bite the bullet and have them install the 2nd in the bedroom. What size should I put up there, and I'm quessing around a Grand with labor at Tacoma RV in Wa State. Am I close??

[Swamp_Man]

I agree with the 13.5K. You can never have too much cooling. Also, when you arrive at a site with 50 amp power, you can run both to cool the unit down quickly then use as needed. 13.5K seems to be the standard for the second unit.

[RoyB]

I have never been in a fifth wheel with an air conditioner mounted in the bedroom. I suppose it goes where we have a fantastic roof mounted fan which is directly above our bed. I can almost reach up from laying in bed and reach my fantastic fan controls. I am not sure I would like an air conditioner unit mounted over the top of us where we are sleeping. I also imagine the noise of the unit would make for hard sleeping as well....

I probably would be hard pressed to give up my fantastic fan for an air conditioner as well. We really love the cool night air that we can pull thru the windows cracked in the living room area of the trailer.

For me it would be great to be mounted on one of the side walls or over the hallway that leads into the bedroom ??? maybe even better being one of those floor type portable air conditioners

We occasionally have our living room air conditioner freeze up on when it is a very humid night and they most always starts dripping on the inside. Not sure if this is a problem others deal with or not.

My second RV trailer is our OFF-ROAD POPUP and with the tent beds etc we expect thing like dripping water to occur but waking up in the fifth wheel with water dripping on your nose probably would not be a good experience hehe...

Being a power conscious camper since we like to camp off the power grid and perhaps thinking outside the box abit I would probably install a second air conditioner that was capable of being operated from my single 2KW Honda Generator. The 9000BTU model perhaps...

just some of my concerns for adding an air conditioner installed in the bed room area. For sure having more cool air would be nice to have if you are in the real hot zone areas of our country alot. In my off-road POPUP our success in surviving the real hot days is to always park under heavy tree cover and play the window shade game the best we can.

We do real well with our one 13,500BTU unit in the POPUP. In the Smoky mtns areas around Gatlingberg seems like alot of the campers have large tarps up over the trailers in the heavy woods around there. It is like a tropical forest where when it rains the heavy tree cover drips water for days it seems but the shade from the tarps also helps in the cooling as well. I have a large 20 x 30 tarp that has openings for the roof mounted air conditioner and fantastic roof fan and I tie it off at an angle to the ground on the back side and up over the awning on the front front side. Being alot wider than our awning is gives us a full front cover to sit under supported by our awning and a couple of additional tent poles from Walmart... Using the 1/2-inch ratchet type web straps allows us to remove the tarp real quick when needed to for bad weather.

Roy Ken

[joeprinter]

13K you wont be disappointed, you can never have too much cool air.

[jayhardy]

Some great points made. Since I'm 6yrs away from full timing and still dealing with Wa. State Parks that are half with 30/50amps, I think I'm wise to hold off on the 2nd unit until retirement and we travel the US.

[JohnBoyToo]

Depends on where you will be going...

In the south and west we'd put 60k btu ac's in if we could afford them !

but I'd opt for at least a 15k and consider a 'quiet' ac as the one in our br is too loud even on low...

[mike2wheels]

Ours came with the second unit in the bedroom. The main living area, galley and living room, has a 15k unit. The bedroom has a 13k unit. Our 5er is 39' long.

[jayhardy]

They told me when I picked her up last month that I'm pre-wired for a second. I was thinking the 13k btu

[Water-Bug]

13K btu is the norm. They usually install a low profile unit up front because it is the highest part of the 5er. Cost varies due to several factors; factory prewired, stand alone unit or connected to existing system, dual or single zone thermostat, and other factors.

[hammer21661]

The biggest that will fit the hole. You can turn one or both on low if need be so they can run longer. or just run one until you need two.

[OpenRangePullen]

I have 3 on my 41ft 5W the 2 that came with it> 15k BTU (MAIN),and a 13.5k BTU (BEDROOM) both dometic briskair duotherm's. I needed a 3rd for my rear LR So I installed my self a 13.5k BTU Dometic briskair duotherm 2.
Now everything works out well.
FOR YOU geta 13.5k btu maybe the Penguin II Heat Pump will be the best bet and it doubles as a electric heater.

[Dick_B]

5000 btu ought to be more than enough. Are you sure you need that additional a/c capacity? Sometimes you can have too much and the air gets colder without getting drier.