[VAC] Re: Creative air conditioning Installation

[Roy Lashway <rlashway@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I installed the Duro Therm, "Cool Cat" heat pump which both heats and 
cools.  It is classified as a "nominal 12,000 btu" unit.  It is installed 
in 1 16ft, '56 Bubble.  Since it is fully enclosed and insulated the 
noise is about the same as the old Armstrong unit in my '78, 30ft,  
Argosy.  When in use you get used to the noise rapidly.  The noise level 
could be helped if the unit had a two speed fan instead of the single 
speed. Maybe it does by now.  Most of the noise is fan noise.  The Cool 
Cat heats if the outside air is a 40 degrees or above.  Haven't used that 
as a little cube heater will heat the bubble in about 10 minutes with 
very little sound.    The heat pump really is nothing more then an air 
conditioner that reverses its operation to create/pull heat out of the 
air. However, if I were to do it again I would do as the Preston Pierson 
did. as outlined in the Vintage newsletter of summer 2000.  I suspect I 
would opt for a 10,000 btu  unit however as these older model trailers 
and not well insulated and you know it living  in the southwest.  I am 
interested in how Preston's 4200 btu unit cools his trailer.

Roy Lashway
'78 Argosy,'56 Bubble
WBCCI 1610     VAC
rlashway@zianet.com
web site: www.zianet.com/rlashway