Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:04:45 -0700
Reply-To: mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: insane AC idea
In-Reply-To: <20010803182851.CYRR18626.mta08.onebox.com@onebox.com>
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Why do you want AC? You obviously live somewhere like Germany or Britain
where they don't need it. Try doing without in the southern or southwestern
parts of the US. Gives real meaning to the term: Smells like a goat.
Mike
Sacramento, CA moving over 100 next week.
> From: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
> Reply-To: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:28:51 -0700
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: insane AC idea
>
> my factory setting are roll down the windows, if road rage persists
> roll up windows and crack the wings.. ;)
>
> I wonder why one would want to have ac on an older van, maybe euro
> van.. but a vanagon..
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Fortino
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>
>
> ---- Joe Reed <joe.reed@MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark Drillock" <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: insane AC idea
>>
>>
>>> Anybody know offhand what the BTU rating is of the factory A/C in
>> the
>>> Vanagon? If so, please give model year and source of the info if
>>> available. I am thinking that 6000 BTU is only a small fraction of
>> the
>>> factory A/C capacity.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark
>>
>> I'm sure you're right -- but the factory a/c is dead in this one, and
>> as we
>> all know the rear-positioned vents barely cooled the front anyway under
>> the
>> best of conditions...and this has the advantage of being right behind
>> the
>> driver's head. Since I almost never have passengers, that's right where
>> I
>> want it! :)
>>
>> But most importantly, assuming all this "run while mobile" stuff completely
>> fails (and it probably will never pass long-term readiness testing)
>> the
>> point would be that you can't run the factory a/c while parked without
>> the
>> engine running. The worst-case scenario here is that I get an a/c unit
>> that
>> will work fine where I tend to camp -- which is in the Appalachians,
>> not
>> Bryce Canyon -- as long as I run a cord from my host's cabin.
>>
>
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