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Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit????

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Leaky Boot

08-24-2007 12:44:43




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Seen a backhoe on ebay and guy priced it without and with a 110 volt AC unit running off an inverter with an extra battery. I've heard of this before---but how are they doing it without it looking like crap?? And will a 5000 btu do much good out in the sun. I added a 16000 btu ontop of my AC 200 this spring and you have to run it wide open when the tractor starts putting off alot of heat out in the hay field--and still it's not all that great. Anyone tried or seen a 110 volt used??

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tg in VA

08-26-2007 02:53:53




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  
I read an article in Farm Show about a guy who had done this. It said that he had the alternator reworked to handle the additonal load.



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buickanddeere

08-25-2007 06:04:40




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  
I suppose you could also spend the same or less time and money & repair the original on board system? Then just drive the AC off the crankshaft, no aux generator required. If not factory AC equipped. Wrecked RV's with working roof mount AC units are dirt cheap. The RV units are designed to withstand vibration/jolts a household unit isn't. The again some people just thrive on tacky red neck, slapped together patch jobs. I don't understand why people settle for substandard operation of something that looks like crap but costs the same as doing the job right?

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Chris Jones

08-24-2007 19:20:37




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  
The guy that cleared my parents lot a couple years back had a medium sized track hoe with a 110 volt A/C unit installed in the back window. He powered it with a small gas powered generator that he strapped to the top of the engine compartment of the hoe. The back window was replaced with a plywood sheet that had a cutout the A/C unit fit in. It didn't look half bad and he said it cooled great.

He was working a job in SC during the summer and it was so hot the first day of the job that that evening he went to WalMart and bought the A/C unit and generator and fixed it up the next day.

I noticed he took the generator with him at the end of each day.

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Howard H.

08-24-2007 18:36:58




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  

Funny you ask that - just a few days ago, I saw an older Ford pickup filling up with gas that had one mounted in the rear window using the butane tank as a rest.

Fairly neat job, but I wondered how he powered it. He had New Mexico plates, so I'd presume it'd have to work OK - as hot as it gets out there in the summer.

Howard



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Steve Crum

08-24-2007 18:19:55




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  
Somebody posted a picture on the CLC board last year of a Sedan Deville with a Wally world small BTU A/C unit tarpstrapped in the passenger's side rear window and a small gas powered generator strapped down on the trunk lid. The poster said it wasn't fake, it was in a parking lot and the guy came out of the store and started the generator got in the car and drove away. I suppose if yer handy you can mount and belt the generator to run off the main engine. If your not concerned about parsitic power losses anyway.

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RobMD

08-24-2007 16:30:36




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  
You can be dammed sure that the power inverter will NOT handle the amount of watts that an air conditioner puts out. When you invert the power, you are also causing more current draw on the 12v system. There's no way an air conditioner for 110v will keep up. You'll either burn up the air conditioner or fry the inverter.



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big fred

08-24-2007 15:12:43




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  
And how does he keep it from busting out the winder when he hit's a bump? ;o)



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rrlund

08-24-2007 13:49:16




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  
Is this for real or something somebody saw on The Red Green Show? "Smooth duct tape is the sign of a fine craftsman". Remember,if the women don't find you handsome,they should at least find you handy.



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hay

08-24-2007 13:01:09




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  
a farmer friend has a 110 volt A/C in the the cab on his case tractor. not sure how he made the electrical hookup, but it sure works good in the hay field on a hot summer day.



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soundguy

08-24-2007 12:49:11




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 Re: Adding Air Conditioning with a 110 volt unit???? in reply to Leaky Boot, 08-24-2007 12:44:43  
What about using a 12v unit. I'm pretty sure, at least in the past, that I've seen them.. seems like it would be more efficient. Although.. I guess he could get his alt rebuilt and converted.. etc..

soundguy



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