DC-GENERATOR WITH DC AIR CONDITIONING??????

Great idea about the DC air cons for vans and campers, as long as you can limit the power requirements to less than 5amps.

Daniel - I think: either you have no idea at all what you are talking about or you know a great deal more than me?

Mike Harding

You're a bit late, I have seen a DC inverter split system being used at Telstra remote CDMA sites. But I bet they use a bloody lot more than 5 amps.

Marty.

Our 1hp (9000 BTU) DC-Air Conditioning need 470 watts which are 19.5 Amps.(24V)
If you have a 400 Ah battery, you can run the AC the whole night. Not a problem!
Other concerns????????
Appreciate your answer

what is the compressor make and model
what are capacities in btu's or kWr

The DC-generator has 2.5 KWs and the DC-air conditioning has a cooling capacity of
9000 Btu which are around 2.65KW COOLING CAPACITY.

you is good inovasion company but we r not wanting cold airs in sleeps because we are very hard pepoles here and we do not like be called wimps to air condishion in our camp or other men think we are camp.

good luk

Woolfy

I just checked it, the cooling capacity is almost 3000 watts.
But the air conditioning needs just 470 watts ELECTRICAL power.
That is different do cooling capacity.
Anyhow, the advantage is, that the generator is fixed in your motorhome, and you
don't need to switch it on or to refill it, cause it starts automatic and uses the diesel tank of your vehicle.
The other advantage is, that the aircon runs of your battery with a much higher efficiency rate than AC Air conditionings. That means you don't need to care to hide your generator and no refilling anymore.

With our system you don't need to run a generator during the night. AC air cons need a generator.

Air Conditioning running from a 12 volt battery?????????

Spare me.

It is not possible.

Do the Maths (not "Math').

Unless of couse you are planning to travel with a Pantech full of batteries.

G'day Dan0603,
I think the quintessential question is, if such an expensive device (both to acquire and to run) is required for people to escape to "the bush" or other out of the way places in our beautiful country, then why bother going.

I think that if that sort of paraphernalia is required to maintain creature comforts, it would be best to save your money, let someone else (who enjoys the experience) slog it out, film it then distribute it on film or DVD. Then you can stay at home with all the creature comforts and no doubt full multimedia viewing with huge plasma and air conditioning to boot. When you then get up in the morning you won't have to worry about getting charge back into batteries to ensure no damage is done. Nor will you have to worry about the gasses given off the batteries from such high discharge then charge cycles. Nor the topping up of electrolyte ....

Personally, I don't think there would be a large enough market to make it viable.

Cheers

to offer feedback for your research....only probably 10-20 % of australia requires air con at night for a comfortable sleep but only during 1-2 months of the year. and by midnight its time to turn it off because it gets too cold and noisy. so ,when its time to turn off the genny for a peacefull night ,say 7- 8 pm. there is only a few hrs of uncomfortable heat to deal with......heaps of us are already using honda gennies and 1/2 hp household air- cons[quiet, economical,effective, easy]

Sounds like a Troll who has a few on the line.

I think Honda make a small genny that runs 12v stuff, it has a flexable exhaust that you can put in a small can (ie, coke can) and bury if i remember correctly, that might run it.

Was really quiet when you buried the exhaust.

Baz.

Sounds expensive to me.

That is why when we travel we head north in winter - cooler.
Let alone missing the floods.
Sitting in the aircon watching a flooded creek is not my idea of a holiday :-)

$5000.00 pays for a lot of fuel, will even pay for a 8 week trip for us including fuel.

And yes, I have lugged those 40kg 2V forklift/telstra batteries, but not too often.
6 of them for 12V would be heavy.