Larwyn said:
"My AC will be on the galley area floor. I intend to cut rectangular holes in the floor on both sides of the AC unit, allowing intake air to be ducted to both sides but blocking off the small bit of intake on top of the unit. The hot exhaust will be vented out the back of the trailer below the hatch, which does not extend all the way to the floor. I know this would be uncomfortable for anyone actually using the galley if the AC was running at the time but my "galley" will actually be more for storage than cooking anyway."
Hey,
I put mine on the floor and vented it through the bottom of the tear. I tried it out for the first time on a trip to the outer banks of NC. (the tear was still unfinshed) The only problem I ran into was that the unit was oversized for my tiny tear and was not reducing the humidity. Later, though, I woke up freezing due to ice cold dry air from the A/C and found that sometime during the night an extra pillow had made its' way down to the A/C and covered half of the inteior air intake. It had effectively lowered the efficentcy of the A/C to a point that the A/C was compatible with my tear. The rest of the trip I stuck with this solution all the while keeping an eye out for freeze up, but there was none, even though the unit ran for over 48 hours straight at one point. I plan on a more perminent solution to pillow.
The only floor mounting complaint I have is that I don't like the air blowing directly on me; my wife likes it, though. Problem number two solved. She gets that side of the trailer.
One thing I had worried about during construction was the recycling of exhaust air under the trailer. Turns out not to be a problem, even though I have yet to install "louvers" over the vent holes under the trailer so as to blow the hot air away from the fresh.
As for the size of the vent holes in the foor, each one measures 8" by 22".
See updated build pics here:
http://photos.yahoo.com/johngwalkerjr
I updated them a couple of weeks ago.
john
Off topic:
My wife and I took to calling my tear the dorky while in Buxton under the Cape Hatteris light house. "I think it's time to go back to the camp ground, get the dorky, and catch the ferry." That kind of thing. I hope to lose the dorky name with a couple of fenders I got off Ebay and a 4"drop axle.