RetiringSomeDay
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Quick question to those of you who have bought a CA rental. I was looking at their current line up and noticed the AC is non-ducted. As I live in Florida, I am curious as to how well that would work in our temperature and humidity on the longer model.
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Mocoondo
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RetiringSomeDay wrote:Quick question to those of you who have bought a CA rental. I was looking at their current line up and noticed the AC is non-ducted. As I live in Florida, I am curious as to how well that would work in our temperature and humidity on the longer model.
The installed air conditioner is more than adequate for the 28A. The thing I would be more concerned with is that most of the current for sale units will be equipped with Carrier air conditioners. The Carrier is a great air conditioner, but parts are now virtually impossible to come by. CA switched to Dometic for a few years with an integrated furnace/ac wall mounted t-stat. CA chose the Coleman Mach for the 2015 build.
I personally feel that the Colemans are the best. The good news is that if a Carrier unit ever fails, the Coleman Mach is a direct replacement. Just bolt it on and go.
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IAMICHABOD
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If you want to look at some Jamboree models that have ducted A/C El Monte R/V in Orlando have a few.
I have ducted in mine and it works well and I have had the non ducted type too. While the non ducted performed ok. I do prefer the ducted for more even cooling.
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RetiringSomeDay,
The roof AC on my 2005 Cruise America 28R is a 13.5k BTU Coleman (9330A713). I fulltime in western OR and WA. Summers here are nothing when compared to FL, but we do get the occasional 95F heat wave (lasting less than a week). On those days my roof AC can have difficulty keeping up. Here are solutions that I have done:
Block sunlight in roof vents and skylights: The roof of the 28R is not thick enough to use a vent cushion. The vent isn't recessed enough and the cushion falls out. Inside vent covers ( product link) are the next best thing. I have vent covers on the cabover vent and rear bedroom vent. I don't have a need for roof vent covers. The inside vent covers serve 2 purposes - blocking the sun and (here in the winter) blocking cold air from coming down from roof vent. If I want to sleep/nap during the day I can darken the rear bedroom by inserting the vent cover.
I replaced my bathroom with a Fantastic Fan that has a smoked brown cover. It gets no vent cover. Other RVers have come up with DYI solutions to cover that shower skylight. I can't be bothered. My shower heats up a bit in the summer, but not enough to overcome the AC.
Coach door reflective window cover: (product link). The fogged window in the coach door is a heat radiator. It gets hot in the inside when the sun bakes it. Many RVers have the window permanently blocked with a reflective window cover.
Reflectix foil (product link 1 , product link 2): I slid foil between the curtains and the windows on the rear window, and driver-side bedroom window and the dinette window. It's not taped in place. The curtain holds in in. I have no use for the rear window and don't care for looking out my dinette window into my neighbor's patio or inside when they open the door. These 3 windows stay covered with foil. Some day I'll add foil to the driver-side cabover window.
The last thing that I do is I attempt to get RV sites where the rear of the MH points South and the driver-side points West. Doing this puts my patio space in the afternoon shade and all of the shielded windows against the mid-day and afternoon sun. On the extremely hot days I'll start the AC when the outside temp reaches about 75 F (25.5 C). By doing these steps and by starting the AC early enough it can easily maintain the coach at about 72 F all day.
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Now here in the PNW winter I have the coach-side (passenger-side) facing SSW. I want it to be broadside with the curtains open to the winter sun. Right this moment it is 54 F outside, 74 F inside and the electric space heater (kicks on at 70F) and the propane furnace (kicks on at 63F) are not running.
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54 F sounds wonderful. Here in Little Rock, AR, it's been struggling to reach 25 F, making it the coldest day on record in March. Normal is about 60F. Ah well, spring will be here sometime, probably followed immediately by summer.
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Snowman9000
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I never see leveling blocks under a rental C. Do the fleet operators care about that? How is the fridge life in rental fleets, and for the subsequent purchasers?
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Snowman9000 wrote:I never see leveling blocks under a rental C. Do the fleet operators care about that? How is the fridge life in rental fleets, and for the subsequent purchasers?
Well, 12 years and 180,000K and still going strong. I have no idea how the renters treated it but we tend to try and keep it level. We are kinda hoping it dies so we can put in a compressor model with a little more room. Until then.....
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D.E.Bishop
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RetiringSomeDay wrote:Quick question to those of you who have bought a CA rental. I was looking at their current line up and noticed the AC is non-ducted. As I live in Florida, I am curious as to how well that would work in our temperature and humidity on the longer model.
It depends on which unit you look at. The 2008 31T has ducted. We are looking after deciding that at 74 and having some serious health problems that a used Class C foe between 24K and 33K is better than an 80 K Class A for our needs. So I do have some specs already and have looked at that.
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Last year I purchased a rental 2013 Forest river Sunseeker class C. It had 8000 miles on it. New it sold for 85000.00 or so. I bought it for 56,000.00 has everything I need on it. I used it 9 times last summer and love it. No problems yet. I would highly recommend buying this way if it is a good dealer that has taken good care of it.
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I got a deal (at least I feel I did) on a 2010 Jamboree 25g with 70K miles. I have put 10K miles in 2 years on it with problems as of yet. I went this route because I wanted the newer 450 ford front end, slide, awning, electric steps, back up camera... All the bells. Im glad I did it and would do it again
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