At 12:56 AM 8/5/00 -0500, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
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>An RV propane fired airconditioner could be made, probably should be
>made, its just a matter of scaling size a little larger than a RV
>refrigerator, and smaller than a whole house unit with calibration for
>propane instead of natural gas... I don't detect that anyone actually
>does make such a product.
Back in the '70's, a company made a rootop gasoline powered A/C for
conversion vans. Pretty neat idea- back then it was just a matter of
hooking a lawnmower type engine to a car A/C compressor, with a small
alternator for the fans.
I imagine with newer technology, the motors could be made much smaller-
someone mentioned the residential natural gas heatpump- there is one just
south of here, near Orlando. It also harneses (I think) the waste heat from
the engine to heat water.
As far as an absorbtion type A/C- I think you would have to scale it up so
large, that it would not be practical- otherwise, you could just leave the
refrigerator door open ;-)
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Chris Bryant
Bryant RV Services
DeLand, Florida
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