air conditioners !!??!!??

ledavidson · Veteran Member

air conditioners !!??!!??

Vic · Guru

Hi LD and welcome to the forum;

I have only ever had Air Command (Heron etc) but not roof mounted ones but the ones I had were ok for me, including Darwin in humid weather.

Others on here may have used others etc and can give more feedback.

Have also sent you a pm.

ledavidson · Veteran Member

Thanks Guru, all positive helps.

have a great Chrissy

the rocket · Guru

We have a Wren and it is lovely and cold if you want that and lovely and hot if you want that. After sales service is tops as well.rocket n Strop

milo · Guru

get the air con checked out before heading off, we have a dometic in the tardis , motor home
was in kimba (SA) a couple years back , 40odd degrees and it was great, ..

ChiChi1 · Guru

Have an Air Command Heron 2.2. Does a good job. It was quite warm in Goodinwindi this afternoon. Mind you the van is only 5.7mtrs.

ledavidson · Veteran Member

Thanks, have had it looked at under warranty, reckoned it working to capacity but still taking hours to cool and NOISY. had looked at independently and same.

Cupie · Guru

My Australian made roof top Air Command (Wren) has worked a treat for 13 years.

In the real hot country we sometimes leave it on during the day while we are out. Come home to a cool van. Not to green I suppose.

Have even used it to cool the annex area when using that area for visitors. Just open the awning side windows.

I run it regularly .. at least once a month. Even carried out repairs on a noisy internal fan & busted external fan mounts. Simple design & construction.

-- Edited by Cupie on Wednesday 21st of December 2011 11:35:11 AM

jonathan · Guru

If its any consolation, I too have a Dometic brand aircon .. useless as t1ts on a bull !

Fortunately I mostly free-camp, but when on power I find it will only drop down about 4C at the best ..

Will look at the Wren next year ..

Jon

ledavidson · Veteran Member

We are looking at the Air Command Cormorant. Apparently has best cooling/heating capacity and two fans.

Joe · Senior Member

Interesting.

I was going to suggest that your installation maybe a little "dodgy" (perhaps a Jayco standard installation?) and they you should look at the routing of the cooling air over the heat exchanger, but if Jonathon is getting the same issue then perhaps it is indeed the poor quality of the Dometic.

One day we will probably get a van with a/c. At the moment we just use a fan, but being Darwin residents we are acclimatised to warmer weather so perhaps we won't need it.

I'll remember the thoughts on the Dometic though.

Geoff n Jen · Senior Member

Ours is a Dometic too, don't think it's very good either - noisy and the heater is rubbish, it will only just take the chill off the air after it's been going for a while and you freeze worse till it warms up. They say it is working how it should. Haven't tried it in the heat yet though.

cannylass · Senior Member

We have a friend who but a small house on in his van the main unit sits on the tow bar frame, he gets a lot of lookers

golivers travels · Guru

We have an Ibis Aircommand, reverse cycle. It is brilliant, used extensively on both heating and cooling over the last 12 months around Aus. Also has a dry cool function for humid weather. We found we were also able to run the air con with our Honda 2 geni if everything else electrical was off.
Had a Heron 2.2 in our last van, was efficient but noisy.
Good luck
ledavidson
Cheers
Glenda