So another major component of this conversion I'm eyeballing trying to figure out - the engine driven AC. Having one is a practical requirement for me in the south. It currently has a nonfunctional TransAir system. Transair couldnt find any documentation on it. I started tracing the lines, and what I found is the system is comprised of two AC compressors in parallel, two condensers at the very rear, occupying both valuable underbody bays and also appearing to be plumbed in parallel together, one HUGE and entirely dead seeming evap over the rear window taking up valuable space, and tee'd off the lines running aft from the engine is a MUCH smaller evap right over the driver's head.
From a practical standpoint, I dont need the rear evap as long as the front can cool the area from teh windshield to about 6ft behind the driver, maybe even less area if I really needed to curtain the AC off into a smaller space to make it work for me. It's in the way of one of very very few places to put the minisplit evap later. The two condensers both are taking up highly valuable space underneath the rear, and this bus has very very little underbody space considering I need a larger fuel tank, a gray water tank, a generator, a spare tire, and somewhere for the minisplit condenser.
So for those with lots of AC experience... what do you think? I dont see capacity numbers on anything, so we're all just guessing. Could I eliminate one compressor, one condenser, the huge rear evap, and just one one compressor to that small driver's evap? Is that driver's evap gonna have enough capacity to cool more than just the driver? Is it even enough for that by itself? Will the system need modification to work properly with the half the condenser and compressor, but only a much smaller fraction of evap left? Maybe build another small evap for up front? Thoughts?
From a practical standpoint, I dont need the rear evap as long as the front can cool the area from teh windshield to about 6ft behind the driver, maybe even less area if I really needed to curtain the AC off into a smaller space to make it work for me. It's in the way of one of very very few places to put the minisplit evap later. The two condensers both are taking up highly valuable space underneath the rear, and this bus has very very little underbody space considering I need a larger fuel tank, a gray water tank, a generator, a spare tire, and somewhere for the minisplit condenser.
So for those with lots of AC experience... what do you think? I dont see capacity numbers on anything, so we're all just guessing. Could I eliminate one compressor, one condenser, the huge rear evap, and just one one compressor to that small driver's evap? Is that driver's evap gonna have enough capacity to cool more than just the driver? Is it even enough for that by itself? Will the system need modification to work properly with the half the condenser and compressor, but only a much smaller fraction of evap left? Maybe build another small evap for up front? Thoughts?
And nice use of the swing arm!
