Date:         Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:56:26 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      A/C was re: What is camping anyway?
Comments: To: Rowan Tipton <uther@DRAGONHOME.ORG>
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At 01:43 PM 6/9/2010, Rowan Tipton wrote:
>Which you can do even if you have an a/c and generator for those times
>the heat is to much.  I don't seem to hear this argument about putting
>a Propex or other heater in our vans so why do we have it about a/c.

When I was growing up and air conditioning wasn't all that common at
least in the Northeast, it seemed to have a faint but distinct flavor
of indulgence and moral decay to it, especially if it was in a
car.  Maybe that was just my family, but I wonder...

As the fat heat-intolerant owner of a non-AC Vanagon who often drives
alone, I've come to rely on the blast effect of the quarter-windows;
and I was some dismayed to find that mother VW has become too
concerned for my safety to allow me to open the darn things to a
blast position.  I've concluded there's no practical way to outwit
them without drilling a hole in the outer door skin, and while I
think about that I've been known to muse on the possibilities of some
sort of personal cooling system.  Which always leads me to wonder
what happened to the ROVAC
system.
<http://books.google.com/books?id=WwEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=rovac+air+conditioner&source=bl&ots=VvTiK97nzA&sig=2MCLGpTq0lnWCCKsLv6nDvNvFmQ&hl=en&ei=DX0QTOeRCcP38AaVwOH-BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=rovac%20air%20conditioner&f=true>

Yours,
David