After Market Aircon For Isuzu DMAX

TKS Rod ... but the problem with a domestic system is the 240V power supply required. I am looking at the input/output for one of my DC/AC Inverters which I thought might be 240V output hardwired to the aircon but initial feedback from electricians is the output loss/diminishment from DC to AC to Aircon might not allow full power to Aircon ... but, you never know !!

Cheers ... NeilM

Quote "TKS Rod ... but the problem with a domestic system is the 240V power supply required."

Exactly the same power requirements are needed for a caravan air-con. Anyone who uses an air-con when free camping powers them with a generator.

Neil,

Look into Red Spot truck/machinery aircons. They sit on the roof and are powered off the vehicles engine........not sure that's what you want?

Bob

Nomadic Navara - TKS for your advice BUT I am aspiring to a mobile air conditioning system. One that runs from both DC/AC vehicle-generated power and I can use when I am driving and then when I am camped up, either for short periods from 4 x 120Ah auxiliary batteries or from my generators.

Cheers ... NeilM

Bob Y. - Qld ... TKS for your suggestion. I googled and found the Red Dot Corporation website (design and build mobile HVAC systems) and then found there are 2 Dealers/Agents just down the road from my Perth Base. I'll follow up with them because from what I can see from the website their units might be "just the goods" for me

Cheers ... NeilM

Bob is on the mark. Red Dot air conditioners are top quality, well built units that stand up to severe service.
However, you will need to find a spot to mount the air-conditioning compressor, because the Red Dot unit is basically the same as the D-Max unit - just a lot bigger setup, and roof-mounted.
I'm not sure how much room the D-Max engine would have available, to mount an additional air-con compressor.
The Red Dots are used to cool cabins on earthmovers and they're built like most American stuff - solid.
However, they don't come cheap, and the current exchange rate doesn't help that one little bit.

Cheers, Ron.

Tony ... well, interesting !! I somehow can't get the connection between my aircon aspirations and my beard ... it just alludes me :) :)

Why on earth would I cane you ?? I rarely take any offense at others' comments or advice ... because I am all of self-deprecating, even tempered, full of humour, well able to take a plug in fun and well able to respond in kind ... and all the other things that make me such a great bloke !! Oh, forgot one ... I am modest too !!

Back to my beard ... long story short:-

[1] I have had a beard since I was 16. There is nobody alive other than my siblings who has seen me without a beard. I say I shaved twice. The first time at 14 was in eager anticipation and the second time at 15 was in utter frustration. Then it all improved from there ...

[2] I had 30+ years of fitting in to a suit/tie and carefully grooming my hair/beard - just to satisfy professional standards and social etiquette

[3] When I retired and decided to just go bush I also decided on one symbolic protest against my former professional life ... NO - not tattoos or body piercing ... just that I would never again cut my beard

Since my Profile photo my beard has grown further and I am more unkempt in appearance ... oh how good it is to travel off-road and be oblivious to some of the social norms. Remember ... you can't just a book by its cover !!

AND from my 20+ years in the Kimberley I have found that rather than being hot, my beard acts as a cooler ... when I throw water on my head and enjoy the cooling breeze through my beard. My personal walking evaporative air conditioner !!

AND in the interests of full disclosure and transparency in this, my personal narration ... since I retired I have improved from being 155kg and a 127cm waist to 95kg and a 97cm waist ... a bit more to go and I am trying hard. So you can see that my beard is one of my least priorities in life !!Isn't it great me abandoning my professional offices and going bush !

Heh, Mate ... get back to me - I enjoy both practical and philosophical conversations

Cheers ... NeilM

Keep the beard Neil. Do not be tempted by the dark side.

Regards

A couple of points if I may Neil.

1. Keep the beard, I ain't shaving mine for anyone.

2. Have a talk to a fella named Rod at Lyons Aircon and refrigeration. They have had a heap of years experience with industrial air con units for mobile plant of all types. They also sell and service Waeco and Engel portable fridge freezers.

Cheers
Pop

My Rig has been put together as 3 parts ... Isuzu is independent/self-sufficient to go anywhere without the Trailer. The Trailer is my "Base Camp" for when either I decide to camp-down at some location or I unhitch to travel further with the Isuzu only. The Trailer is also my "Support Vehicle" - it carries 200L of spare diesel, 150L spare water, my road-side service and maintenance gear, fridge/freezers and food stocks. The "Hitch-Up" or platform is for cartage of bulky/heavy tools/gear, etc between Point A and Point B .. on the black top ... and is unhitched when I arrive at Point B - being a transit depot or a mate's garage. The "Hitch-Up" does not come off-road with me. It was custom built to my design and is rated to carry 350+kg. Depending on what it is carrying it takes me less than half-an-hour to unpack and disassemble to components for temporary storage.

No ... never have "whacked" the spare tyres on either side of the Trailer. With the 2 side spares I am 20mm within legal limits for on-road width of vehicles.

As an aside, I guess ... to understand my somewhat unusual Rig and travel/transport/storage arrangements you need to know that when I again leave my "home" in Perth I will no longer have any fixed place of abode, I will be itinerant throughout off-road Oz for (as planned) the next 3-5 years and then I want to ship my Rig to South Africa and drive Cape Town to Cairo. So I need in/on my Rig .. me, myself, my worldly goods and chattels and all off-road gear.

TKS for your interest mate Cheers ... NeilM