Air command Ibis Comments

Well, it isnt whisper quiet but worth every bit of the noise when its too hot and/or humid without it. We havent been anywhere where we have run it through the night yet.
We also have aircon at home and it is not really much different from that.
Cheers,

Heather

Thanks,
Your feed back has been much appreciated.

Talk soon

Expanda, I think the point you were after is it quieter than a Dometic? YES alot.

Had both and it is much better. If you want to run it off and red 2KVA Honda, I think there might be problems but other people make say I am wrong. Not certain of me facts here.

My understanding is a Cormorant is almost the same as a Ibis but uses less power and will run of a honda if this info is relevant.

carl,
yeh, I am just trying to get an idea of other owners opinions on the IBIS.
As you know the dealers are obviously biaest.
I have had the dometic on 2 vans now and i cant say i have been completely happy, no real problems they just did not work that well.
We spend a lot of time in north qld and my wife enjoys here ac. I have a 3kva gen so that is not an issue anyway.

Thanks for your comments.

Hi Darian,
How big is your van? What temps can you acheive inside with outside at say 35o.
Cheers

I've not given it a decent run in hot weather yet - but the few short runs it has had in heat lead me to think that it will get the van down to quite a comfortable level - no readings taken to date though - last week I did run it for a whole day on heat cycle (riding out the wild wet weather up in the SA mid north, while returning home for a Red Centre trip) - no problems - kept us toasty warm all day.

Hi Expanda and Darian,

We ran ours for hours each day when we were in Cooktown and it had no problems keeping the temp to whatever it was set on, around 22 degrees from memory. It was well over 30 outside and very humid and uncomfortable.

We have an 18 ft Sterling van but it would easlily do the job on a bigger one.

Cheers Heather

motherhen,
it looks like you guys spend a bit of time in the desert heat, we will be running on gen but have a 3kva ( should do the job ) how do you find the ability for the unit to bring the van down to a nice temp in the heat

Hi Expanda

We have a Dometic in our van which runs from the Honda 2, but although we used it just a few times in 2005 on our January south coast and Eyre Peninsula trip, we have not used it outside of a caravan park since. It cools the van down very quickly and we need to turn it off after about 2 hours. We did use it in CPs such as at Darwin and Mt Isa last year, but when out in the bush were happy to sit out in the shade and often a breeze on a hot afternoon rather than run the genny and shut ourselves inside the caravan. We have a 12 v fan to use in the van in the evenings. If a crocodile free and flowing river was near and i was hot, i would float in that until i cooled down, whereas my husband does not like the four letter word SWIM. We don't use the air con heater but last year when we hit a sudden cool change and my husband had bronchitis i bought a small fan heater and we stayed in CPs in nice rural towns for a few days to do day trips. We found our air con didn't work when we tried it at Mataranka last year, as it broken a gas line (common problem with wear and tear). We had it fixed in Darwin because we wanted to use it there and although tech said the same thing will happen again because it has reached that point, ours hasn't let us down yet.

Mh

great feed back, thanks.
I have heared that the new ones have an anti freeze mode that won't allow them to run below 2deg outside temp. my dometic would not have acheived this and was the same size.

Cheers.

Hi Terry
Just my opinion on these aircond's not working below 4 degrees is that they don't have a external fan keeping the outside coil un frosted. The old rooftop units used to work below that temp, they had two sets of blowers. House aircond's use same gas as RV units and they work in low temp conditions.
I think it is to cut down on weight keep price lower and feed all this rubbish on compressors freezing fire ect as most people don't know difference.
they are a reverse cycle system so all that is happening in heat mode the internal unit becomes the heat pump and the out side unit is the cold side with now air blowing through fins the evaporated condensation turns to ice and freezes the core, when unit shuts down it take a long time before restart. That is why the thermostat is set to two to four degrees to try to stop unit freezing core.
Cheers
Chass