Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:17:46 EDT
Reply-To:     Oxroad <Oxroad@AOL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Oxroad <Oxroad@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Powering a 110V A/C
Comments: To: dane714@WORLDNET.ATT.NET
Comments: cc: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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In a message dated 98-04-09 17:41:17 EDT, you write:

>  would also like to know if anyone on the list has had any luck with
>  mounting a conventional 110 a/c unit of 4-5k BTU in the passenger window
>  (temporary for camping, of course).

Dane-

The April 1998 issue of Hot VWs has a photos of the 1997 Florida Bug Jam.
There is a breadloaf bus with a pop-top Dormobile conversion which clearly has
a 110 conventional home window-mount air conditioner mounted on the roof to
cool the interior. It's page 68 if you have the issue.

If you're not familiar with it, the Dormobile has a canvas pop-top that is
hinged on the driver's side of the roof (unlike the Westfalia which is hinged
at the rear, or I guess the front in some older busses). This Dormobile bus
has a roof rack at the rear of the bus behind the pop-top canvas and there
sits the air conditioner. It seems there is a hole in the canvas to keep the
front of the air conditioning unit inside.

A similar set up would be to mount the a/c on the front roof rack of the
Vanagon Westy and hook it up through the window opening in the pop-top canvas.
Seems like it would be out of the way and efficient. Pretty cool, huh?

Incidentally, and I hope I'm not breeching any copyright laws, (it's a
rhetorical question, no thread necessary) but the photo credits the owner of
the air conditioned Dormobile as Peg Hodis in St. Petersburg, FL. Which I
think is your neck of the woods.

Jeff
83.5 Westy
NY