Thank you so much for doing this video! Can never get enough feedback….. and if you installed the recommended 2 vents on the blower it would be even quieter 😂. I have seen a couple builders do a vent at the foot of the bed aiming at the ceiling. This allows the air to hit the ceiling above the bed and fall nicely at night time. You can greatly reduce the blower speed and you don’t have to run the ducting up high🎉🎉 If you need anything in the future just give me a call - Chris
oh man, Im glad i read this. I have 2 vents, but the ducting that goes up the back pillar isnt finished out and such an eyesore while ive been trying to figure out how to finish it.. if youre saying I can just cut it and have it pointed up, thats going to make my life so much easier.
This is AWESOME. Your original video on the install helped me so so much when I did mine mid last year.. it legit was a life saver. I also made a parallel/series switch because of you!! So believe me when I say I was stoked to see this video pop up. Youre right, the OG controller is not that great.. I need to do that upgrade. I have a dog with me in the van and that would be such a convenience to manage the temp remotely. Also looking forward to it not stopping and immediately kicking back on lol. Overall i have to agree with you too, it does a great job. I have a 170" with a very open floor plan and as long as i keep the curtain to the front closed, the cabin stays around 75 on a 95 degree hot florida day.
@@GoingBoundless If you dont mind me asking.... I just went to go get the new controller and a bit appalled at the price. its double what one would pay for a premium thermostat with the same features for a home... If they didnt send it to you, do you feel it would have been worth the investment to shell out 600 for just a thermostat upgrade? (or did i mis interpret the video and you paid the full amount for it?)
@@Travelingboutz They did send me it for free because of my videos on the product. It is in fact extremely expensive. Would I have shelled out the money for it? I mean, it really is a game changer, especially if you have animals. Unfortunately, we lost our buddy on the road last year due to cancer, but if we had another animal, it's 100% worth it. Can I do without it? Yeah but the old thermostat sucks bad. It kicks on and off in like 1 minute intervals, it had no timer and it's extremely bad for the compressor. So yeah, id squirm while buying it, but id buy it. I can monitor my system remotely now and check the cabin temperature as well as turn it on and off. It's no question that's it's night and day. But it's crazy expensive.
Lily, our 2019 Sprinter, 170 extended, XD, 4x4, has been in 47 of the 48 and North Dakota might happen next month. Lily has been from Vancouver Island to Key West. From Los Angeles to Montreal. She's been to the bottom of Death Valley and 12,000 ft up in Rocky Mountain National Park. All of this would have been a lot less enjoyable without our HD series, 24v, split Cruise N Comfort AC system. Save your roof space for a deck or better yet, more solar. Don't risk another hole in your roof; you won't know you have a leak until the damage is done. Cruise N Comfort and with confidence with.
2 questions, first, how loud is this system outside? Second, being that it's an undermount, have you had any problem with dirt clogging any filters causing the system to work inefficiently?
There are 2 settings. parallel and series. In series, it's much louder but needed in states like Florida, Texas, etc. Parallel is how we run it and it's super quiet. We even ran it in Florida this way as long as its not 90+ degrees. The filters are on the inside, in fact you need one of those foam/mesh kind from lowes or homedepot, cut to size and fit it in front of the air intake. I only have cleaned it twice and it was not that bad. The outside is the same as a condenser unit of your home, you dont have a filter on your home unit either. But to answer your question, after about 15k miles, yes, I took the fans off and cleaned it real well as it was filled with rocks and stuff but now they have a rock guard!
Can you show me how to connect the DPST switch for parallel and series circuit on the condenser and the connection for the variable blower fan speed switch ? Thank you.
I believe that's in my install video. The variable fan blower connects directly to the compressor unit, not the condenser and no special configuration is needed. The condenser fan is where I wired the parallel and series switch.
It's the HD series. The condenser fans can be run in a series or parallel. One uses less power than the other. So you can run them faster for hotter climates.
The Dual fan condenser allows you to do this. So temperatures under 95 degrees you can reduce outside condenser fan noise and drop 7 amps off the consumption at 12 volts. We did these when we built units for a very large theme park in California about 10 years ago. They didn’t want the floats to sound like vacuum cleaners 😂. So by increasing the size of the condenser you can run the fans slower in series.
It was not but it was similar. I think even older than the 701. The new one does need a wire but it's wifi connected so you can connect to it from anywhere to control it.
@@GoingBoundless thank you! I’m in Fort Mill, just south of Charlotte & have the VES MAXX I’m getting ready to install. So I’m watching everything video I can get my hands on
@@louisroman2841 I'm not if you understand what I meant. All of the thermostats require a direct wire to the unit. WiFi is just for controlling it when you're not in your rig. So if you have animals and you want to monitor and control the system.
