Best portable AC no Apu

I like the idea also but....

2-3 batteries required for a 10hr break
(3-6 hr per battery depending on temp)
Around $1,500-$2000 total cost.

Still requires venting thru a window

Can only cool just the lower bunk...(must hang a sheet from the upper bunk so the cold air is trapped in the lower bunk)

 

The 9k is not enough when its 100 f outside. 12k is good

 

Dont waste your money on that. Is no good

 

I have a 36" flat top. My 6k window unit even keeps this thing ice cold.

 

What generator do you use?

 

Honda 3000 Handi.

 

I dont have a place to put a generator, the small honda/predator I could hide under my headache rack and put it at the back of the trailer every night. A bit of a pita, but I need to do something for the summer, I'm dying out here, I'm getting too old and cranky to sweat, and HATE idling. Hoping a 5k window will do it. I already have that.

 

Do you have room on your frame rail?

 

I have to get rid of my rear fairing and mount, and it has to stay above my muffler. My muffler is just under and outside the frame, had to move my stack to put my headache rack on.

 

I have a 5k window unit by Toshiba, cheapest one they sell at Home Depot.

Best trick I learned was diverting the air back to sleeper. I was in Arizona, parked in daytime pointed into the sun.

I use the shiny window shades and I built a cardboard duct diverting air from cab to sleeper to test it and taped it to the AC.

I leave the truck idle for 30 minutes or so after I park and setup and the thing #### near freezes you out of sleeper.

I have a Honda Gen also. Runs two full 10 hour breaks + on 1 tank of fuel.

I used to run a fan in cab to blow air into sleeper but my little temp duct setup works much better.

I am building a nicer duct setup out of a spare standup AC hose.

Have used this is 100+ degree days and it works great.

I’m sure all the dudes running around in someone else’s truck laugh a bit but I save a lot not idling right now.

63” stand up Pete sleeper