Air conditioner

Recently my 11 year old Electrlux failed and I was going to replace it with a Cormorant. Had an RV aircon service man look at it with the view of easing it over the side and replacing it with an Aircommand. He said your nuts keep the Electrolux it has the best sealed Japanese compressor, all the new ones have Chinese. He replaced the thermostat and all OK now. On Saturday here (Adelaide) was 45C and tok 1/2 hour to get temp to 30C 1/2hour later was 24C. Honda 2 has never failed to run it even over 40C. I sometimes take the top cover off and blow out any dust etc and give it a good spray of penatrol. Also it is super quiet when I compare to other units I see in occasional Caravan Parks.
Cheers Pete

We have the earlier Dometic CAL 136.302, cooling only with heater as John describes. We have never used the heater; a small fan heater on the floor is far more efficient and effective that a roof mounted heater. It makes sense to have cooling only at roof level.

Our air con has proved very effective and the few times we have run it from the Honda genny it has worked well, but did trip the genny a couple of times in the January heat. A restart and all was good again. After two or three hours in very hot weather we had to turn it off as it was getting too cool in the caravan. I think this one was made "in the good old days".

With years of rough roads, we did have a broken gas line from metal fatigue. Repair agent told us that we could expect more of the same, but he did repair it and re-gas. Perhaps not quite as effective as before, but more than adequate.

We do not use the air con much, as we prefer to sit outside in the shade and enjoy the environment, so only occasional use if in a caravan park on a very hot day.

Motherhen

Hi Ken

I do domestic A/C as part of my business,and do not think they would handle the rigors of being bounced around well

Ken

Perhaps, Ken,

but there again I read often that it has become frequent and successful practice to install household units (I said "household" to avoid confusion with that unmentionable RV components supplier...) and I haven't read of any problems with them. But continually read of breakdown and failure problems with RV units.

Of course, at about one third of the cost of a typical RV unit, you would not be out of pocket if a household system only had half the life, or twice the maintenance of one of the supposedly dedicated RV systems.

Ken

Yes Bob looks impressive and with a soft start function a 1.5kW generator would handle in perfectly.
I have saved the pdf in my bt folder for future use should the12 year old Electrolux throw in the towel.
Should be quieter but with small space ACs most of the noise is air being blown around.

I agree, that looks impressive.
And the Chinglish is almost comprehensible!

Have you ascertained if it is available here, and at what cost?

If there are any satisfied customers to refer to, I would happily consider as a replacement for my Ibis...

Ken

ok, here's a twist.
The contact given in Australia is ....
Aircommand !!

Hi Ken,

For Australia, You can contact with Aircommand company. www.aircommand.com.au


Kant Huang

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