Climate Control for a Semi

amen I would kill for a climate control system in my truck it's always to hot or to cold. makes sleeping rather interesting.

 

Brick, you mean like the heat on and window down? When I am at home my wife has to have a fan blowing on her at night, but she is under the covers. I sleep on top of the covers and the fan messes up my sinuses. I am all stopped up in the morning. I tell her to turn off the fan and kick off the covers. It will balance the temp out!

 

i find the problem with my ICON idle in the winter is... the cold seeps in under the bunk and makes the matress cold yet i am breathing air that is too hot for comfort from the vents. seems to be okay during the summer though.
i hate spring and fall when it is nice out, about 50-60 and i try to leave engine off and window open. there is ALWAYS someone parking next to me that insists on running their truck ALL DANG NIGHT.

 

I've never seen anything that could be retrofitted, because most of them have quite an array of dashpots, sensors, and controllers involved that operate the various vents to keep the temp where you set it. It is kind of surprising that the truck manufacturers have never included such a unit. It can't be that complicated, (or expensive!) since General Motors has done it before.

My Webasto does have a switch and a temp sensor on it. The sensor clicks and is kind of noisy where they have it located, but it has to be in the cab to work properly and take temp readings. I can;t set a specific temperatuire though, just a heat range.

 

HA! i was just thinking this last night, i thought it was just me ,i can never find that "sweet" , gets to hot i turn it one notch back and then it becomes freezing

 

Actually, i think some of the higher-end gm cars have this feature. So you might want to start there.

Now that i think of it, if you can design a retrofitable unit that could be put on a truck i think you'll get all the marbles.

 

I can't speak for everyone, but unless my boss puts APUs in, I'm idling no matter what. I don't want my food to go bad by killing the engine, and I *definitely* don't want to kill my battery by letting the fridge run all night!

 

i have one in the sleeper of my truck. took me some time to figure it out since it was confusing. but now i use it all the time and it works great.