Installing Mini Split Air Conditioner In RV Camper-Installing Mini-Split Heat Pump In RV- RVAC Solar

can you hear me can you hear me the air conditioner is pretty loud i want to solve that another main reason why we're upgrading this air conditioner not only because it's loud as you can hear in the background but it's 82 degrees in here right now and the air conditioner just doesn't stop running it can't catch up in this florida heat so we need to address that problem all right so guys the reason why we're going with this mini split is a this air conditioner is just ridiculously loud it can't keep up with the summer heat down here in the south which we tend to be in quite a bit and it's way more efficient so ultimately we want to try to be able to run this thing off our solar system as we grow our solar so um what i i've scratched my head where i'm gonna put this thing and i've decided to take these two cabinets doors off take this divider out and actually mount this guy right inside this cabinet so that all you can see is the front of it and then we're going to try to hide the lines going down behind the um the curtains there and then behind the couch and then we're going to go out to the back and we're going to mount the air this is the air handler side the condenser side is going to be mounted on the back bumper somehow so we're still kind of working this out but hopefully everything goes smooth and i'll keep you guys posted uh this is also not a how-to video this is a how we did it video so i'm not going to go through every single little step there's tons of resources on youtube on how to hook up a mini split but you guys will get the idea of how we did it in our rv and then go check out those resources as well all right it's here our new mini split so it's time to unbox it and get this bad boy installed [Music] something like that [Music] just like that [Music] [Music] oh all goes together [Music] [Music] that's pretty solid little dude hopefully all right so this was a little bit of a head scratcher but i ultimately wanted to build out this wall a little bit so that the face of the air handler is sticking out so that we don't blow right into this cabinet so it's actually coming out uh what i ended up doing is taking a couple two by threes screwing the top and the bottom since i don't really want to screw too much into this back wall and put a lot of weight on it uh there's some stringers running through here and on the top and then i also just anchored it with some some angle brackets right here and now i'm going to take a piece of plywood and i'm going to mount it on top of that and that's going to build out that wall to the point where now i can mount my bracket for the air handler right on this plywood once i get this mounted so that should bring bring us pretty flush with the front of this this cabinet all right so here we go [Music] all right guys so we are going to build the outside rack for the condensing unit and we're going to mount on the bumper with some unistrut i went ahead and painted it black just some spray paint to kind of blend it in a little bit with the bumper and i'm just going to cantilever it out this particular mini split i didn't realize actually need some airflow in the back so i got to push out a little bit further than i expected but that's okay um just gonna make two rails i'm gonna sandwich two parts around the bumper with some carriage bolts then i'm gonna mount the condenser right on here so let's cut the pieces that we need and i'll show you guys how i'm gonna put this together [Music] all right so this is the bracket mount that i made and it's a piece of longer unistrut so that's long enough to put the uh condenser out here give it some airflow in the back it's sandwiched in between another shorter piece of unistrut i did an eight inch carriage bolt which actually conveniently falls right into the holes so that'll tighten the top uh the bottom has a washer a lock washer and then the nut so two of those sandwiched together that's gonna be real rigid and i'm gonna do another one right over here and it's going to line up with the feet the mounting feet of the air conditioner so something like that is what it's going to look like on the bumper you'll be like damn that's good damn damn [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] so so over there okay you can hold on for a second pull it back just a hair oh you're good all right we got everything preliminarily hooked up we're going to evacuate the line and then we're going to release the refrigerant into the system and cross our fingers and hope it works so let's get going 15 minutes to suck out all the air and if it holds pressure we know we have a good seal and if that will have to readdress that but here we go all right so we evacuated the lines we let it set with some pressure on it didn't drop so i released the freon and we just turned it on so we're just trying everything out i just temporarily have a lead core to it we will hardwire it in once i'm comfortable with it and i do my tests with a kilowatt just to see how much power draws i just soak the line just to make sure and crush your fingers so far so good so let's see this thing runs for a little bit and see what it does so we'll keep you guys in the loop [Music] all right we are now in the future this is about five months from when we did the install and we've lived with the system for a little bit so let's give you an update on how everything's going and if this would be a good fit for your rv so right now the unit is on and running we've used it in cooling mode and now it's october so we're using it in heating mode which is works great for both as you can see we probably still want to dress up these lines a little bit but they come out here and we drilled the hole in our balance over here and we tucked the line set right here behind the curtain and then we drilled through the floor behind the couch so when you're looking at it you really can't tell that there's lines running here which is what we wanted a nice clean look as far as the unit inside it's been working great it actually is completely quiet it's on right now and it just constantly blows air in here and keeps it at temperature so it's a lot better than the on and off of the rooftop unit and it keeps a lot more comfortable because i think it takes a lot of the humidity out of the rv and just just makes it all around more comfortable so we've been very happy with the performance on the inside and i'll show you guys outside what we ended up having to do after our first trip all right guys we are outside and the unit is mounted on the bumper like we showed you before the problem that we had after our first trip was that this did bounce a bit there was a spring to it when we hit a lot of bumps and that hard copper connection i showed you earlier on the video broke the seal just with this unit flexing up and down so we ended up rectifying that problem with some flexible hose the three foot section from here to the hard pipe and that allows this to flex so while there's spring going down the road it's not breaking that seal so that's very important we also put an extra strap on here just to keep it a little bit more in place as far as the specs on this unit this is a one ton 12 000 btu it's a 19 seer the higher the sear the more efficient it's going to be and it's the 120 volt model which is important that you get that for an rv because rv's running 120 volts so this viewing has been great for us it works we get a lot of comments in the campgrounds as you can imagine and we're pretty happy with the install so far so we'll leave a link to this guy in case you want to check it out for your rv one more thing we did try this guy on solar for anybody's looking to run this unit on a solar system with the kilowatt installed the maximum wattage is 1100 watts when it starts up when it ramps up and when it's running it's roughly about 600 watts so we can run this guy on our solar it will start it up it will run it we don't have enough solar panels to keep it running all day but we can get a couple hours out of this at full sun pretty easy and then as we ramp up our solar we'll definitely get that um going full time all right so if you're still here at the end of the video i really appreciate it you guys are probably really interested in installing a mini splitting your rv so hopefully this helped out feel free to leave us any comments below if you have any questions or anything we can help you out with and check out this unit in our link below um see if it's going to work for you as well all right guys we'll see on the next how-to video [Music] you

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Length: 15min 18sec (918 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 15 2020