When I installed mine I installed it in the nose toolbox and mounted a 12” exhaust fan in the front side to exhaust the heat. You can’t even see that it has an ac from the outside. It looks a lot better than an AC hanging out of the wall.
Thanks for doing the video! I transport flowers in my enclosed trailer so I'm going to need to do the same. I want to install solar panels to charge a battery generator to run the AC unit for a few hours. I don't need it 24/7, just 6 hours or so at a time. I don't want a noisy gas generator. How did the solar panels work out?
You can also use a stand up portable ac unit cut a circle into the floor for the vent i did that for now because i paid alot of money for my trailer and im skeptical about cutting a square into the wall
All the videos I have seen show welding some sort of header or frame system around the inside of the hole. I have already pulled the paneling out 2 times so I really like how you didnt over think it, cut the hole and put unit in. My big question is that I will have racks that could be carrying up to 600 pounds on the roof. Do you feel that the L channel plus interior wood around the A/C is enough support after cutting the hole?
I wouldn't worry too much about it. I threw a stack of solar panels just on the front where I mounted the unit to get them out of the way, probably 200lbs (Plus the 160lbs worth I have mounted on it) just on the vnose without any issues. So if you're spreading that weight out I wouldn't overthink it
If I was in your situation I would put a 1 1/2" square tube on each side of the a/c from ceiling to floor and thru bolt, by the way I'm the Dad in the video, I would have answered these comments but I have never seen this until now.
I did actually! I used paper shredding and it worked really well. I don't have any footage I'm aware of just because I was really busy but I think I'll end up making a video atleast showing what and how I did everything
