Was wondering how I would go about fitting a splt system A/C to my Jaco Silverline Outback 21.6 any help would be appreciated. Regards Phil.
Delta18 said
04:25 PM Feb 12, 2017
What model 21'? EG: 21-??-?
Baz421 said
04:57 PM Feb 12, 2017
Phil
I just fitted one in Dec16. Best thing ever as in the heat wave we just had the old roof one would not have coped at all. This one was excellent and ran for almost 48 hours non stop.
Fitted in Adelaide cost $1600 all up.
Daikin FTXM25QVMA model. draws 400w cooing and 650w heating, so I can run off inverter for a while at least.
Super quiet can't hear the fan inside on 1st 3 settings and outside very quiet, cant hear it at 3m normally.
Hope this helps
Cheers Baz
Delta18 said
05:18 PM Feb 12, 2017
Mine was done in Adelaide too, Golden Grove actually, similar price.
Absolutely love it.
What size is yours? Mine is 2.5kw & drinks around 750w on cool. Runs all day on inverter.
Baz421 said
05:21 PM Feb 12, 2017
Delta18 wrote:
Mine was done in Adelaide too, Golden Grove actually, similar price.
Absolutely love it.
What size is yours? Mine is 2.5kw & drinks around 750w on cool. Runs all day on inverter.
2.5kw also perfect size and inverter tech is a bonus for sure
villatranquilla said
06:54 PM Feb 12, 2017
Roma in Cambellfield did ours $800 fitting - took about 4 hrs - we bought the unit $800 - best investment ever - fitted Dec 2014. Luckily our van had a super strong rear bumper which held 2 spares and a geni box. We sacrificed one spare and the geni box. The dining area was at the back so it was simple to sacrifice 2 overhead cupboards for the head unit - so that the unit blows down the van toward the bedroom end. .The pipework came up the inside in the corner , behind the seating cushions, then through the overhead cupboard, It left about 2 ft of exposed pipes in the corner so they cut a strip of matching wall woodgrain to put across the corner to hide the pipework. Have seen Delta18's set up - also looks good
Last year we also removed the roof top clunker - weighed about 40kg's - left the inside framing and covering attached to the ceiling, but after the roof top bit was removed we realised the hole was the same size as the shower vents so could have had a hatch there.
-- Edited by villatranquilla on Sunday 12th of February 2017 06:59:14 PM
CC Bear said
07:17 PM Feb 12, 2017
For those who have installed was the 2.5 the smallest unit and what did the outside and inside units weigh.
just done a search the outside unit 30 kg and inside unit 9 kg plus weight of pipes. Smallest unit 2 kw OS unit 28 kg IS same weight.
-- Edited by CC Bear on Sunday 12th of February 2017 07:26:28 PM
-- Edited by CC Bear on Sunday 12th of February 2017 07:27:34 PM
Baz421 said
07:55 PM Feb 12, 2017
CC Bear wrote:
For those who have installed was the 2.5 the smallest unit and what did the outside and inside units weigh.
just done a search the outside unit 30 kg and inside unit 9 kg plus weight of pipes. Smallest unit 2 kw OS unit 28 kg IS same weight.
-- Edited by CC Bear on Sunday 12th of February 2017 07:26:28 PM
-- Edited by CC Bear on Sunday 12th of February 2017 07:27:34 PM
Yep 30 and 9 kg respectively. Compressor on rear HD bumper inside has double plate on inside of shower wall to distribute load across whole wall. Inside has a 700mm if I recall steel mounting plate.
The Doo crew said
11:14 PM Feb 12, 2017
Most important thing is to fit 2 drains!!! All head units have provision for 2 to be fitted left & right so if your slightly out of level you don't get water leaking out.
Fitted a 2.5kw Daikin in our last motorhome that ran well on inverter & panels even in NT tropical humidity.
Baz421 said
07:13 PM Feb 13, 2017
The Doo crew wrote:
Most important thing is to fit 2 drains!!! All head units have provision for 2 to be fitted left & right so if your slightly out of level you don't get water leaking out. Fitted a 2.5kw Daikin in our last motorhome that ran well on inverter & panels even in NT tropical humidity.
Agree on 2 drains very important and easy to do.
dieseltojo said
08:36 PM Feb 13, 2017
The thing is are you talking about a house set up or a caravan specific unit that can be lit up by a Honda 2.2. Mine is a Herron 2.2 caravan split system and works well in the middle of no where.
Doesn't matter of course if you only stay at caravan parks....Just some thing to keep in mind.
Delta18 said
08:48 PM Feb 13, 2017
dieseltojo wrote:
The thing is are you talking about a house set up or a caravan specific unit that can be lit up by a Honda 2.2. Mine is a Herron 2.2 caravan split system and works well in the middle of no where.
Doesn't matter of course if you only stay at caravan parks....Just some thing to keep in mind.
Mine is a household split. A Fujitsu.
I can run it almost all day in the bush from solar & inverter.
Grubbygypsy said
10:15 AM Feb 14, 2017
How do they go with being on the move all the time? Like I'm guessing the house ones aren't overly designed with constant movement in mind, and going from place to place once or twice a year might be fine, and onsite, but what about moving all the time?
Roving-Dutchy said
10:41 AM Feb 14, 2017
They are fitted to fishing trawlers and I'm sure they get a much greater hammering than on a van.
Ours has now been on the van for 9 years and we usually get away for 3 months each year and as the cost is about one third of a caravan unit, you can afford to fit about 3 units before the cost exceeds a van unit.
The domestic split units draw less power and can hardly be heard when in operation and can keep a van cool even in extreme conditions, they are far more efficient than a van unit because of the larger condenser and evaporator, the size of the condenser is important as to how efficient any air con unit is finally.
Cheers
David
Baz421 said
06:44 PM Feb 14, 2017
dieseltojo wrote:
The thing is are you talking about a house set up or a caravan specific unit that can be lit up by a Honda 2.2. Mine is a Herron 2.2 caravan split system and works well in the middle of no where.
Doesn't matter of course if you only stay at caravan parks....Just some thing to keep in mind.
So far we are talking house INVERTER models that draw about 500-700w AC (so less than 3 Amps) absolutely flat out so Honda 1000 will run them easily at flat out BUT as they are inverter they only use a percentage of this power in normal operation, over a period of time.
Grubbygypsy said
03:03 AM Feb 15, 2017
Roving-Dutchy wrote:
They are fitted to fishing trawlers and I'm sure they get a much greater hammering than on a van. Ours has now been on the van for 9 years and we usually get away for 3 months each year and as the cost is about one third of a caravan unit, you can afford to fit about 3 units before the cost exceeds a van unit. The domestic split units draw less power and can hardly be heard when in operation and can keep a van cool even in extreme conditions, they are far more efficient than a van unit because of the larger condenser and evaporator, the size of the condenser is important as to how efficient any air con unit is finally. Cheers David
Cool cool...thanks for the response - I'll certainly keep something like that in mind for when/if my clunker fails. Just such a different, crisp kind of cool. If we're talking 39kg total as opposed to 40 for the clunker.... I'm not sure why they're not fitted straight up.
-- Edited by Grubbygypsy on Wednesday 15th of February 2017 03:04:55 AM
Was wondering how I would go about fitting a splt system A/C to my Jaco Silverline Outback 21.6 any help would be appreciated. Regards Phil.
What model 21'? EG: 21-??-?
Phil
I just fitted one in Dec16. Best thing ever as in the heat wave we just had the old roof one would not have coped at all. This one was excellent and ran for almost 48 hours non stop.
Fitted in Adelaide cost $1600 all up.
Daikin FTXM25QVMA model. draws 400w cooing and 650w heating, so I can run off inverter for a while at least.
Super quiet can't hear the fan inside on 1st 3 settings and outside very quiet, cant hear it at 3m normally.
Hope this helps
Cheers Baz
Mine was done in Adelaide too, Golden Grove actually, similar price.
Absolutely love it.
What size is yours? Mine is 2.5kw & drinks around 750w on cool. Runs all day on inverter.
2.5kw also perfect size and inverter tech is a bonus for sure
Roma in Cambellfield did ours $800 fitting - took about 4 hrs - we bought the unit $800 - best investment ever - fitted Dec 2014. Luckily our van had a super strong rear bumper which held 2 spares and a geni box. We sacrificed one spare and the geni box. The dining area was at the back so it was simple to sacrifice 2 overhead cupboards for the head unit - so that the unit blows down the van toward the bedroom end. .The pipework came up the inside in the corner , behind the seating cushions, then through the overhead cupboard, It left about 2 ft of exposed pipes in the corner so they cut a strip of matching wall woodgrain to put across the corner to hide the pipework.
Have seen Delta18's set up - also looks good
Last year we also removed the roof top clunker - weighed about 40kg's - left the inside framing and covering attached to the ceiling, but after the roof top bit was removed we realised the hole was the same size as the shower vents so could have had a hatch there.
-- Edited by villatranquilla on Sunday 12th of February 2017 06:59:14 PM
For those who have installed was the 2.5 the smallest unit and what did the outside and inside units weigh.
just done a search the outside unit 30 kg and inside unit 9 kg plus weight of pipes. Smallest unit 2 kw OS unit 28 kg IS same weight.
-- Edited by CC Bear on Sunday 12th of February 2017 07:26:28 PM
-- Edited by CC Bear on Sunday 12th of February 2017 07:27:34 PM
Yep 30 and 9 kg respectively. Compressor on rear HD bumper inside has double plate on inside of shower wall to distribute load across whole wall. Inside has a 700mm if I recall steel mounting plate.
Fitted a 2.5kw Daikin in our last motorhome that ran well on inverter & panels even in NT tropical humidity.
Agree on 2 drains very important and easy to do.
The thing is are you talking about a house set up or a caravan specific unit that can be lit up by a Honda 2.2. Mine is a Herron 2.2 caravan split system and works well in the middle of no where.
Doesn't matter of course if you only stay at caravan parks....Just some thing to keep in mind.
Mine is a household split. A Fujitsu.
I can run it almost all day in the bush from solar & inverter.
Ours has now been on the van for 9 years and we usually get away for 3 months each year and as the cost is about one third of a caravan unit, you can afford to fit about 3 units before the cost exceeds a van unit.
The domestic split units draw less power and can hardly be heard when in operation and can keep a van cool even in extreme conditions, they are far more efficient than a van unit because of the larger condenser and evaporator, the size of the condenser is important as to how efficient any air con unit is finally.
Cheers
David
So far we are talking house INVERTER models that draw about 500-700w AC (so less than 3 Amps) absolutely flat out so Honda 1000 will run them easily at flat out BUT as they are inverter they only use a percentage of this power in normal operation, over a period of time.
Cool cool...thanks for the response - I'll certainly keep something like that in mind for when/if my clunker fails. Just such a different, crisp kind of cool. If we're talking 39kg total as opposed to 40 for the clunker.... I'm not sure why they're not fitted straight up.
-- Edited by Grubbygypsy on Wednesday 15th of February 2017 03:04:55 AM