12v DC Air Conditioning Conversion Progress
Well, I'm knee deep into my Spring camper project. I posted about this earlier about all of the work I plan on doing but this update is specifically to the AC conversion. As a recap for those that di...
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No, this is not a swamp cooler, it is an actual AC unit. Early testing I did yesterday with an inside camper temp of 88 degrees it was blowing cold air around 57 degrees and that was after running for just a few minutes. I'm in the middle of finishing up wiring details and such but I am continuing to record my process so others can watch the full build experience and gather from it what they may.
interesting, they are pretty vage on ali express on any detais on how it works, but at full power 70amps (12V DC) thats not to bad, I was looking at a roof top unit made by the same company that uses freon and is a 12V system, but its only 2200 btu of cooling, and uses 60amps at 12V on max power.
On my unit, internally it actually runs on 24v. If you purchase the 12v unit, they provide a 12v to 24v converter. This actually is pretty nice because I was able to put the converter really close to my battery compartment and I'll snake the 24v lines through the camper.
I measured about 50 amp draw on high on the 12v side. I'm working on wiring now as I am going to make the face mounted control panel remote so I can move it somewhere visible. Once I have that done I'll be doing more testing and get more testing information.
ya I saw that about the 24v, I would almost be tempted to do a 24V or 48V battery setup if I had that.
