Travel Trailer Wall Mounted Air Conditioner - Bad idea!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- When we bought our 2018 Salem Cruise Lite 197bh we thought having a wall mounted AC unit was a smart idea. Boy we were wrong! If we are not careful we always end up with condensation dripping inside the trailer. One of our subscribers asked if we ever found a solution, and while we have found steps to minimize the issues they are never fully gone. Stick with roof mounted AC units!
Thank you for this information, because I have been looking at different travel trailers and saw that some were coming with window units.
The reason why you have water leaking into the trailer is because ac fan blades hit the water in the pan and sling it onto the coil to help cool it if you build a tin box and seal it up only having the back side a open this would solve your issue
The issue with a small camper (R-Pod) the roof AC is LOUD - the wall mount AC are very quiet and use half or less of the wattage of the roof mount
I have questions. So I could see tilting it to the ac side maybe would help. Mine at sights always wants to tilt the opposite way so maybe start assuming I’ll be using 1-2 blocks on the other side at all times.
Question is how the hell are you supposed to keep the weather out and form entering the cabin? How do keep the pan water from entering when driving and weather entering when driving? I see no logical way this would ever work correctly in a real world situation and should have never been done.
When I bought my trailer I never really thought about if the AC was roof or wall mounted. I knew the roof mount was more reliable but also more to fix but that was it. I'm glad I went with a trailer with a roof mount after seeing your issues. Water and trailers don't go well together.
2018 Aspen Trail 17’BH has the same issue BUT ITS OVER THE BED There’s a 1/2” gap on the left that I can see the water in the pan-it just doesn’t drain properly. I had to suck it out with a shop vac and will try that before the next trip. I tried to pull the unit out but it doesn’t seem to have been installed properly and is stuck. The instructions are very vague ‼️
Glad you have a small gap to access the excess water. There's no space on ours to do that. For now we just have to keep a slight tilt on the rig to aud draining and try to minimize humidity in the camper as that seems to make it worse. What a PITA.
Hello we're renting a 2014 Jayco with a wall unit above our bed and it leaks excessively on our bed we have the exact same problem our landlord has had somebody come out and try to fix it but they've only made the problem worse to the point it won't even drain at all and it drains into our closet above the bed and has ruined the majority of our clothes
I recently posted a follow up video with a possible hack that seems to be helping for us. Feel free to check it out!
I noticed mine was always dripping good out the slots on mine. I made sure I kept it level and I never had any issues, or so I thought. This weekend I was camping and I was level within 1 °. Slight tilt to the other side. I made it through the first day no problems then all of sudden around 10:30pm the second night the damn thing started having water running across my floor from under my seat. I looked it’s coming from the base of the wall then across the floor. It looked like it was running inside the wall. I’ve only had this camper a few years bought it brand new. I’ve had nothing but problems out of it. The fridge struggles to even hit 50. This weekend it was at 60°. The battery charging system doesn’t work right and cooks the batteries. I went through 2 batteries in the first 2 years and I just disconnected them all together until I can figure out what’s going on. Now my ac is leaking inside and I noticed mold under my seat and I didn’t even know it had been leaking.So we are just going to see if there is any kind of fix for the Ac and if it’s not reliable or reasonable price wise we’re done. We’re sellling it even if we have to take a loss and just be done with camping at this point. It’s been nothing but trouble and stress for us from the start. Keystone should have never sold the camper in this state basically not even functional as it was originally designed for. Just overall terribly designed and a complete failure design wise. They should be recalled but they’ll never do it unless people die as a result.
Can a roof-mount AC be mounted on a wall? It would be like a mini-split.
This will actually work very well and never drip inside camper IF it's installed correctly. Coleman finally got it right on their lt models for 2024.
Glad to hear someone eventually figured out to do it correctly! Thanks for watching!
I had the same problem with my 2020 jayco 174rd and solved it by carefully drilling a weep hole in the rear of the AC with a drill bit. I did get get some water damage until I fixed it. I am able to level my trailer now and not lean it anymore. BE CAREFUL DRILLING!
That's a good suggestion. Do you have a photo of where you drilled?
I don't have a photo but mine has the same exterior screen as yours and I ran the drill bit through the screen about the middle of the AC housing as low as i could and kind of just hoped I didn't hit anything and got lucky.
This kind of reminds me of when I had an apartment. They had warnings posted about running the ac too cold because it did the same to the windows. The window frames would condensate and cause mold issues.
I think they make the new ones to retain the water to help cool the coils and be more efficient. It still requires a slight tilt so it drains out the back when it fills to a certain level. I have a new window unit that has the plug in the bottom but the manual says removing it will reduce efficiency.
I'm having this exact problem. I am going to try installing an elbow and drain hose to the outside.
Worst case I just undo it.
Any luck?
The indoor coil is the culprit man. It needs a real drip tube. When the dry bulb temp gets down to the wet bulb temp, your gonna "Wring the Moisture" out of the room, thus water collects ON the indoor coil and drips off down into the bottom of the unit. Thats what AC units do, lol. Peace!