Dometic air conditioning

I am sorry to tell you that your troubles have just begun. My dad had this done too. He was told by several workshops not to but he eventually found someone who agreed to fit the aircond. It was noisy and not very good at heating or cooling but worse was to come. The weight made the roof bow even though the approved cross frame was fitted. This caused the roof to accumulate water and leak. He had the aircond taken off and resealed twice but could not eliminate the leaks because of the bowing. Eventually he had to get the a/c removed and buy a new roof. The workshop that did this also sold his a/c for him (so someone else will be just beginning what he has gone through). A long, upsetting and expensive saga for a bloke of 82 who still loves caravanning.

We have a Dometic B2200 fitted to our van and find the heating to be wanting, even with double glazed windows and roof vents closed. However the cooling works well even on the slowest speed.
I did find a number of vents in the floor around the HWS and Gas fridge, also a vent above the shower. I am sure this would cause some heat loss.

Noddy,

we had a Dometic B1900 fitted to our van. It was dead out of the box, which may explain your lack of heating. We never tried the cooling side of things until summer in Perth (6 months after purchase).

Cooling was dead as well.

Contact your local Dometic service agent. We did and when we mentioned the model he said it would be replaced completely, which it was.

Heating is now fine, although it is only drawing air from IN the van over a heated element and blowing it back out into the van. Takes a while but does work OK. On ours we can pull down and remove the black vents and actually see the element, if you can put your hand in and near the element you should be able to feel some heat coming from it.

If not, you've got a dud.

cheers

is the unit fitted with full reverse cycle or does it just have the 700watt element a lot of them have

steve

When i restored my toyoace pop top motor home i installed a dimplex reverse cycle air con,i sacrificed the centre cupboard in the front kitchen to put it in and am happy to say works perfectly both on heat and cool.
Bought it on e bay for $180 brand new still in box, was used as demo,it is no noisier than the unit i had in my coaster, that $2800 i saved buys a fair bit of diesel and now i see a lot of trouble as well, nearly bought a dometic one,