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Cruisair compressors
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DANA – Please create a new post when you are able to share details. Don’t want to miss it 🙂
THANK YOU, Jeff
Cant say much now, but i know there may be someone looking to help out with the cruiseair situation. More to come!!
Dana & Shari Heuson
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Spoke with a lead Engineer from SoftStart this afternoon. They are developing a 50 Amp SoftStart Up version that can be used at the electrical post…and will not only help with Cruisair compressors, but also residential refrigerator compressors. It will also serve as a surge protector (one unit will serve the entire Coach vs. individual unit per AC).
They currently have a SoftStart Up – but, it requires a 50-30 Amp converter…and, therefore, only provides a single 30-Amp service (meaning you would have to manage power usage…and, likely couldn’t operate multiple Cruisairs – much less Dryer, multiple TV’s, etc.).
The 50 Amp SoftStart Up is currently going through 4-6 months of systems acceptance/field testing and they are expecting it will be commercially available in @6-months.
Could be great news to us with Cruisairs…and, helpful to rooftop units, too.
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Following.
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If the AKA5512EXA compresor is not the right one, which one is?
Jeff and Lindsay
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AKA8515EXA
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Has anyone given thought about doing away with the CA and put roof top ac on ? seems it would be a cheaper route then replacing 3 CA .
finding someone anymore to work on the CA that knows what there doing is almost impossible…
I did see a marathon at a resort with roof tops on … I stopped to talk with him but he never answered the door …
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Were the AC’s running? If so he probably didnt hear you knocking.
2000 Featherlite H3-45
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee
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Speaking of noise, anyone using the Rec Pro roof top AC (Made by Houghton). Supposedly significantly quieter than other roof top ACs.
I am hesitant to do rooftop for two reasons, a) I have vents in the ceiling and will require cutting through those, and b) I’d like to preserve the roof space for solar.
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My gosh, I would rather hear the sound of a freight train in my bus than go down the road sweating my nuts off.
For years we’ve been saying CA’s are getting obsolete and with recent people getting out of the market that time is approaching fast.
There are 2 guys on here maybe 3 that have the know how to take care of their own the rest of you are in trouble. Someone is going to figure out a way to convert coaches to roof airs that people can afford. The whole problem is anyone trying to keep a 20 year old coach going is probably going to have to deal with this because when 95% of these buses were converted as cruise airs was the ticket.
So there’s an understanding of what’s needed you will have more problem with the electric side than the performance side of a roof ac. You can mount it on the roof easily and cut a hole and have what is called direct drop. There’s a bus converter doing that now in their new coaches. The noise is muffled by the routing of the air ductwork thru the ceiling, that would be hard to do but even with direct drop you would be cool.
Later
bv
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“My gosh, I would rather hear the sound of a freight train in my bus than go down the road sweating my nuts off.”
I agree 100%. The only requirement my wife had when looking at new coaches was NO CRUISAIRS!. Yes, it was an ’88 and I said, no, they are better in the newer coaches, they are more dependable, are are easier to service, even Prevost can service them, roof airs are too noisy. No matter, she was absolutely right. Our roof airs are louder but we are often so cold we have to turn one off unless it’s over 100 outside. I tested and it’s about 70dB with the air ducted around the coach and 75 with the direct drop open. That direct drop option is amazing when it heated up while we were gone. It took hours for the cruisairs to catch up and it takes about 15 minutes with the roof airs and the air dump.
Service, pull into the local RV service center, have them throw that one off the roof and install another. You will be good for another 20 years!
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I am retired Mech engineer, designed and tested ac for helicopters and light aircraft. Looking for crusiair system to redesign, upgrade to figure out how to keep these going as not everyone wants to mod their roof. Please contact me if you have an outside unit. Also would like evaporator ( inside unit) if possible.
Thanks
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John,
Dot makes large rooftop condensing units that can be used in conjunction with remote evaporators. They are DC current which should be fine but i wonder if 16k Cruisair evaporators would work with them. The units i saw were 25k. Btu and R134. I was also wondering if a Prevost (not OTR) dash air evaporator could be tied into one. Do you have any insight as to if this would be a fools mission? Thanks,
Jeff
Jeff and Lindsay
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I found condenser and evap – one unit on RedDot- no compressor.
Can you share link.
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It says 12 v but also available in 24v
2000 Featherlite H3-45
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Leesburg, FL
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