Did you try this before? "Theoretically" single hose portable A/C actually drops the pressure in the yurt due to pushing out all that hot air, so any extra vents you create would not function as exhaust, but as major intake... Even if you remove all vents, it will suck the air in through all the gaps, so I am curious what the steady state is for the relatively small volume of the yurt.
They do make dual hose portables, I wonder if that would work better... On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > I've pieced together some comments that furnace vents should be on > opposing walls, about a foot off the ground and preferably in-line with the > direction of the playa wind. > > A few remaining questions > > - Our A/C is the free-standing portable type, so it's intake valves > stand a few feet off the floor and simply suck in air from inside the yurt > then ports the exhaust out a hose. > > - Will it make a difference if the exhaust port is higher or lower on > the wall? > > - In theory, would we want the intake vents on the unit to be at a > higher or lower elevation in the yurt? We can't make them lower than > they > already are since they're manufactured on the top of the unit. However > if > raising would help, we could put it up on a table to get the ports > higher > in the air. > > - Last year our exhaust port was on the wall facing where the sun > rose. I noticed quite a lot of heat coming off since it wasn't insulated. > In regards to air flow is there any reason we shouldn't put the exhaust > port on the same wall as the one of the furnace vents? For example, situate > the vent near the floor, and then on the same wall near the ceiling have > the A/C hose vent out the top? I suppose that's cutting two holes in the > same wall. Hm. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
