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If storing your bus under cover but not temperature control, what temp would you keep your coach in the summer? 78, 80,85?
Or would you just set a couple SMXs to “HU” and forget it?
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Tim,
You didn’t put a Subject in your post, I made it live anyway.
I put 1 SMX in HU at 85, but I suppose more would be needed in high heat and humidity.
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Tim,
So far we have set one AC on 77 when we store it at the house. Will have to see how it works when the temperatures get up there.
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Sorry about the subject line, but thanks for the HU setting.
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What is HU setting ?
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Go to the articles section and you can view the manual for the SMX.
The SMX dehumidification program automatically runs the
air handler for a programmed time period to help control
humidity in the boat. The chiller must be in the cool mode for
the humidity control program to work. The dehumidification
program works in 3 stages:
The fan comes on at high speed to circulate air for 10
minutes.
The fan then drops to low speed, and the compressor
cycles on in the cooling mode to dehumidify.
After the dehumidification cycle, the system turns off. The
process repeats according to the programmed time period.
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Okay… what was the answer?
If storing your bus under cover but not temperature controled, what temp is the coach set at? Or do you set the “HU” and forget it?
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We stored our first bus in our barn. It was not temperature controlled and all the barn did was restrict the wind and keep rain off the roof.
The barn got hot, but not alarmingly hot. It might hit 100 degrees on a very hot day. We did nothing to deal with temperatures in the summer except open a few windows and a roof vent to provide some circulation of air and ventilation.
My only concerns storing the coach in warm temps is sun damage to the fabrics and plastics that might get direct sunlight, and excessive temps from the sun. If the coach is shaded I don’t see how it will get above ambient so temps would not be a concern. If it was in the sunlight then the internal coach temps are going to be an issue, perhaps to the point where the laminates will start to come unglued. I think as long as it is shaded that problem will not exist. I have less confidence in relying on an AC system to control humidity than I do about opening some windows and maybe a roof vent.
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The SMX manual has no temp setting for HU. My bus is currently shaded and I’m still sleeping in it. We keep one AC (galley, six or salon) on at 85 and at night, we can get the bedroom AC temp down to 76 in an hour or so.
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THANKS… if we are not out on the road our coach stores inside… exhaust fan kicks in if the temp inside the shop gets over 95°.
We were just wondering… hope to be in 70° to 80° weather most of the time but life happens
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AC actually is pretty efficent at removing humidity. Living in Fl. we know…we can see the water it removes when bus is stored even inside. Geo.
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X2 with what Geo said. The AC will remove a lot of humidity from the interior of the coach. It removes so much that I have to connect a hose to the drip tube of the AC underneath the coach and run it outside. Otherwise my garage floor has water all over it.
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X3, we also have the A/C running due to humidity. We set it at 85ish to keep from getting too hot and to prevent the likely hood of the delaminting of our interior walls. It also keeps mold and mildew at bay while not in use. We put a large drip pan under the coach and empty it once a week.
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I understand the concerns about mold and mildew and how damaging to a coach they are.
However those of you that aren’t as old as Tom were likely brought up in homes, and drove vehicles that did not have air conditioning. As far fetched as this sounds, we opened the windows and probably because of the ventilation we did not have problems with mold or mildew.
But if you want to close up your coach and rely on your AC to control humidity, go for it, but be aware if there is a power outage it is likely the AC system will not restart and then what happens to a coach that has closed windows and no ventilation.
I don’t want to hear any jokes about age or cell phones.
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What Jon’s not telling you is the chance of mold in Jamestown, NY in the summer is about the same as him trading his Jitterbug flip phone for an IPhone. Leaving your windows open in July in Jamestown will require a blanket and the thought of mold growing on his prunes gets him excited thinking about licking the black spots off and the benefits of Penicillin.
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Poor Tom and his dementia…………he still has us living in the frozen North.
There is no question if you button up your coach and turn on the AC to deal with humidity you will not experience a mold and mildew issue. But make sure if that is the path you choose to take you are also perpared to make sure the AC is working daily. Our AC units are good and reliable, but if the voltage drops or power goes off completely I don’t think all or maybe any will resume operation when power is restored so you have a closed up coach and nothing to deal with the humidity.
The real question you have to ask is what conditions you have to deal with, and what is the best way to deal with them. My coach sits in my garage in the high humidity and temps in E. TN. Last week the temps and humidity were in the 90s. But my coach is in a closed garage with temps around 78 to 80. I do nothing to deal with temps or humidity because both are reasonably constant. I have no idea what I would do where old people like Tom tend to live, but do know it would be dependent upon the conditions the bus was exposed to.
We will revisit this topic when people that live where they have real weather, and it is cold need to know how to deal with cold temps and bus storage.
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