by digimark » Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:13 pm
I was worried about that too -- it's the primary reason I stopped considering it and went back to looking at portable and 5000 BTU window units. The PetCool appeals because it's designed to be outside, so it takes no room inside the trailer, because you'd only need to cut two small holes, and since it appears portable (with a handle), you don't have to take it with you when you don't need it. But it isn't powerful enough for a CT.
The smallest portable I can find -- HSandy's 7KBTU Haier model at Wal-Mart seems to be the smallest portable available, is still pretty large, and still needs a largish hole to put the hot air out through. Plus you need to keep a gap between the back of the unit and the wall so the exhaust hose can mount and turn out.
Now I'm back looking at the small 5KBTU window units. I think it might be possible to mount it into a screen-door-like panel attached by hinges to the inside of the side door, so that when you're traveling the inside panel with the AC is rotated inward and out of the way, but when you get to the campsite, you open the outer door and close the inside door, and voila! AC. (This is not my idea -- another person on the CTC sub-forum did this. Brilliant!) No cutting into the CT. Still thinking about it though.