Zero Breeze Mark 2: Unbox, install tips and testing. Truck Camping Portable A/C!! 

This is one of the best real world tests of a zero breeze that I have seen. Thank you.

Great video, i also bought a zero breeze mark2 on Father's day , now my dad can enjoy the cooling on the truck , wonderful !!

Thanks for the tip, Brian. I plan to put mine on a frameless window on the sleeper berth of a semi. I will be using an oscillating multi cutter to flush out the adapter so I can close the window when on my hometime. Also, using a self-adhesive square of window screen repair to keep the bugs and birds brom going through the tube if I decide to leave open.

I hotshot for a living and i have been think about stuff like this and AC was my last problem to solve, found this video and now I'm buying one. mine will just live in the box of the truck with a insulated dryer hose running into my back sliding window. should work but happy I found this video. thanks

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I already saw in the comment section about using the inflatable donut for in between your cab and camper. I used one on mine and it was pretty great until it deflated and left rub marks on my window. (Now I'm not saying that will be an issue with yours) but my secondary choice after using the window donut, was seat cushion craft foam you can get from a Joanns or Hobby Lobby. It's kind of a memory type foam that makes an excellent seal and an awesome sound dampener between your cab. I just cut the foam to the window frame size then cut a hole in the center for the actual window and squeeze it in between. I sprayed it down with Scotch Guard rain repellant afterwards. Been running that method for 3yrs and it's the best decision I've ever made! Just thought I'd throw that idea out there as well. Happy truck camping! And I enjoyed the video! Keep up the awesome content 🤙

You should put the AC unit in the back and run the exhaust hose into the cab and out the window. Let the intake hose use the air that you are cooling to run through the AC. It will cool the area down quicker and keep the area cooler. Once you get it to the desired temperature you can put it on sleep mode.

as user of Zero Breeze in Florida Keys, I want to say that if he put at AC level, he will run out of battery in 2 or 3 hours. So one might need 3 batteries to go through night. (please note that Florida keys is much humid and we will need AC on some capacity till you wake up whereas interior of Texas where humidity is lower, temperature will drop in the early morning hours where you can turn off AC say around 3 am). So depending on where you are, battery usage will be different but nothing is more worst than summer in the Gulf coasts. I used 2 Bluetti 1000 Whr battery for one Zero Breeze and Zero Breeze turned on from 11pm to 7 am goes through about 1400W of electricity. So based on that that is about 3 Zero Breeze battery. Please note that that is South Florida. Everywhere will be different. But nowhere is more extreme than South Florida in the summer. So I have 4 Zero Breeze going on at same time and I can sleep very comfortably. 2500 BTU is very small capacity. Smallest store bought are 5000 BTU. But the difference is that store bought is much cheaper but very inefficient I can vouch that Zero Breeze is most efficient and effective unit out there. For example I have 12000 Whr battery unit with me and on a 7000 BTU store bought AC unit the battery last about 7 hours whereas 4 Zero Breeze with 10000 rate BTU last in excess of 16 hours! The store bought AC cost about $400 for 10000 BTU whereas Zero Brezee cost about $3600.00 to $4000.00 without battery. In conclusion, Zero Breeze is by far highest performance AC that I have seen but also the most expensive too. You get what you pay for. And battery cost is addition to the AC cost that mentioned above. You have to do your math whether you buy Zero Breeze battery or other separate brand like Bluetti with inversion option.

Nice set up. I think you could do the same thing with a much less expensive portable AC like the Black and Decker that I bought at Home Depot for about $ 325. Although larger, it only has one exhaust tube and you did the same thing using a 5 gallon bucket for the condensate. $ 1500 is kind of pricey for me. I ran the AC off of my Yamaha generator on ECO mode, which was very quiet. I bet you could fabricate a baffle that would extend from the truck's small back window into the truck bed, keep the unit on the back seat of the truck, exhaust out the truck rear window and dump the condensate in the bucket. The B & D comes with an insert for the exhaust tube that you could probably use and modify for the window exhaust. Consider buying a 2x2 piece of 1" think insulation board, cut it to size to use on the window gaps. Good Luck!

Maybe make another one of those window blanks like you made for the intake and exhaust but put it in the rear window where you had the ac unit. Probably alot easier to seal it up like that. Then just sit the ac unit in the back seat and use the remote to control it. Love your vids man keep it up.

Hey Brian! Once I go full time in MY camper shell, like yours, I can see already that with my huge EcoFlow solar machine, my future IceCo fridge, solar panels taking up space, and, everything else I need…WHEW!…it should be interesting! I’ll probably start with installing a Fantastic fan in the shell roof to start with. I’m excited though! The A/C you bought is doing a good job! Once you get away from some of our Texas humidity it should work even better! I’m interested in seeing how much water was in the bucket after a night’s use with the A/C! Thanks for sharing and stay safe! ~Jim~

Keep the A/C unit mostly in the truck just like you have it, it will keep the heat generated by the A/C unit out of the sleeping area. Also you can use Reflectx spray glued to speaker box carpet to further insulate the sleeping area over the windows. Great Video!!!!

The topper places sell a boot for in between the cab and the boot that will seal off around the A/C unit.

I have one. It worked well in my van on a Texas night!

Awesome setup! Can’t wait til you test it out on your next camping trip. Looks to be in the triple digits.

Very cool, no pun intended lol!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻

If you make too of the swimming noodle glue back to back with the cutting face way. The bottom like in your video to glass and the top to your vent baffle. Then it will stay in place and seal good

I allways wonder about Apollo astronaut s used on there back for air conditioning system

Brian, I think the intake air tube needs to be sucking air from the bed of your truck not outside air. Like the air inside your home. Basically the way you have it set up, you are cooling outside air and what you really want to do is cool the inside air from the bed of your truck. Try moving that intake air tube to your truck bed so it sucks the air from that area and just have the exhaust air tube blowing outside. I'm pretty sure you'll see a vast improvement. Let me know if you don't see improved cooling.

Definitely need one of those in TX especially for the early hot summer we’re having. 😅

FYI the topper places also have a tailgate seal. I have both and the BedRug bed liner.

Seal between topper window and truck window with a bicycle inner tube. I haven't worked how I am going to do mine. I actually bought the Bouge unit and have 24v system in the truck

Good job!. My brother the “RU-vidr”. 😛😛

I saw another review that showed the foam that came with the battery, has holes cut out so you can use that for your window.

you must be in southern Texas, I was in Lubbock and it was dryer then a popcorn fart, they could use swamp coolers. One store had rhe whole back wall set up as the cooler. they called your a/c refrigerated air

Best review. No one shows that it can be used with out the battery.

You said you were going to check the water how much water came out but you did it do that and I was curious also because you have a byproduct from the air conditioner which is the water that goes in your bucket. You can drink that water especially if you let it go into a clean jar and if you feel you need to you can filter it but think about it you have a by-product of water that you can use. That water that goes in there is just the humidity so why would you not be able to drink it. Think about it. PS I just found this Channel and I'd like to find out what you thought about the drinking of the water that's expelled from your air conditioner. I know you don't know me but trust me you can definitely drink that water. Can I get an answer on this.

Texas is such a wild place.. I’m originally from Houston, currently live out near bastrop, and have family out near you in the DFW area.. and somehow with almost 300 miles between them, you CAN NOT escape the boiling humidity!! Even in the winter time, it’s WET, and yet Texas landscape is mostly rocks, cactus and cedar… Huh?!

The issue with all portable air conditioning units is that to work well, the unit must be in the space to be conditioned with a way to exhaust to the outdoors. While they can work, portable units will always be less efficient and noisier than window/wall units which are less efficient than split systems and traditional forced air systems. So while the zero breeze is putting cool air into the bed, it isn't removing any heat. While the bed is empty, that may not matter a lot, but put one or two people in there for 8 hours and see how it does.

Also Brian, have you considered installing an APU like is used on a semi truck, that comes with AC, and heat. It also charges batteries, and keeps engine temperature warm on your vehicle during the winter? It also allows you to run a large investor etc…. It would be one hell of a retrofit to get it mounted, but you can find some stellar deals on used units!

I hope it works for you. I bought a similar unit about 10 years ago to try to cool my bedroom in my RV when my main AC unit started to fail. I plumbed the exhaust out through a window but still had about a foot of the exhaust inside the trailer. That exhaust got extremely hot and lessened the cooling of the unit. I wrapped as much insulation as I could around the exhaust but it still added heat to the room. Yours is a different design and I think will work better than mine. However, I would monitor the temperature inside the cab to see how hot your exhaust duct is getting.

My old setup, I actually found a “gasket” online that wedged between the truck and cap windows. I found various sizes. It was some kind of foam covered in vinyl or something.

FYI There are inflatable donuts (Round or Square), larger diameter than the windows, available that goes between the truck cab and camper. Blow it up and it creates a seal, also would be helpful if you were camping and a rain shower popped up. Keep the unit dry and avoid leaks into truck or camper. Wonder if the intake air coming from inside the camper would be cooler when recirculated, like Max Ac in a automobile. Enjoy your videos.

That is awesome. May have to get one to replace the AC in my F250 since it went out. LOL

Nice video. Looks like a very nice AC system. You are in Texas and have a Lockheed Martin shirt on. Do you Larry Rogers, a buddy of mine who works at Lockheed Martin?

Just found your channel. I’m not sure if you have a seal between your camper window and cab window but a rubber bike tube can help. Obviously this won’t prevent cold air escaping into the truck cab but will prevent rain some dust and cold air from escaping from the the space between your truck cab and camper.

Like the hat, I pick up the all black one

I was thinking having the rig parked in a shady spot with a little more insulating around the camper, that this is a pretty nice solution. Would definitely like to see how much condensation it is taking to the bucket.

So, here is my thought. Is it possible to have a switch installed in your truck where you can run the truck's air conditioning as usual from the alternator, flip the button, then the AC would run off a LiFepo4 battery while you camp? Doable?

Could you move the intake into the the bed which would help the until cold down with less effort?

Wondering if an exterior dryer vent cover would work? That might help with water intrusion for a permanent fit.

Some bubble insulation behind the curtains to reflect the heat from the glass may help quite a bit as well.

I'm not even a camping guy and I've watched some of your videos but are we not going to talk about that SawStop table saw and all those Festool sustainers?

Just wondering why they have the intake sucking the hot outside air? You would think it should recirculate and keep chilling the interior air for more efficiency Like most room portable air conditioners have a single hot exhaust hose to window. It also seems like the the unit is only dehumidifing the outside air?

Good job

How do you power this overnight with battery? They say 3 to 5 hrs with their battery. That's not long enough.

Seems pretty cool (pun intended), I’ve desperately been looking for camping AC options forever and there just are not any good ones. The smallest window AC units are about 5000 btu’s and are still very bulky and heavy, portable ones are big, bulky and noisy and expensive. I’ve always wondered why they couldn’t make a smaller 3000 btu unit. The zero breeze looks to be 2300 btu and looks like a nice option but man is that pricey, $1000 without the battery. I’d buy it if it was under $600. One thing that confuses me about it is why pull intake air from the outside, that air is always going to be hotter than inside air. Every air conditioner made pulls intake air from an inside source, window units pull it from the front panel, same with portable units, even your house AC pulls from inside. You only want the exhaust air to be outside. I wonder if you kept the intake side in the truck if it would be more efficient.

pretty sweet

Why not just set the a/c unit up in your camper by sitting the unit on top of your cabinet then exhaust through the sliding window with an adapter plate? Would make more sense to me incase of rain and better security.

How long will the battery last? Hoping at least 4 to 5 hours since this is usually what I sleep

Maybe either the exhaust or intake should be on the opposite window?

How big of a solar generator do you need to run the ac unit the whole night

I wonder if solar can be hooked to it? Would be nice in a tent on a hot summer day.

Hey Brian, great vid. thanks for sharing. How long does the battery last? Drive safe. 🤠

I would’ve liked to have known what the temperature was when you woke up the next morning.

Bicycle inner tube between the shell and the cab

If anyone has ever used a portable AC unit, even giant commercial units meant for temporary retail. They don't work so good after awhile unless you have great venting and insulation of the vent hose.

I bought one of these with the Kickstarter... Using it with my rooftop tent. I got it probably 2 years ago and only just unboxed it. Have you figured out what to carry it in is my question?

how do you locate the unit with the battery on.?

I would rather get the higher output Wave than the Mark 2. I don't think the Mark 2 can really cool down a big tent.

The Mark 2 does look nice but it just has 2300BTUs which is quite inadquate on terms on coolong power.

Looks like an amazing product!! Question how much battery draw? 110 works great… US product? Be interesting after camping test. Haven’t seen many of those air conditioners around👍 Good luck with camping and your report. B Deacon ManItoba Canada 🇨🇦

im planning on buying one of these bad boys for my truck camper, you still recommend?

curious why you have 12 drills?

New sub !

Good luck in the summer 😂 That expensive crap won’t work! A 5000 btu window unit would’ve been better!

Eco flow wave would run circles around this why not get that?

No hookups for the other end of those hoses?

Just run the drain line between the cab and camper to drain to the ground, no bucket needed.

once the battery is attached , making the unit higher, will you still have room to locate in the same place?

1500 bucks is a lot how much was the draw

How do you cut something on

How much water went in the 5 gallon bucket during your test?

Where did you get your dryer flange from. I been trying to find that style and I can’t find it anywhere

I like this idea but what about rain water entering your exhaust tubes or is that not an issue?

Brian, what department are you working in?? I work at the same place. I’m on 3rd shift. Just found your channel today. Awesome videos and info!

What if you diverted the intake to the inside it wouldnt be pulling in so much outside hot air!

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Maybe throw a fog machine in that beast, walk around with blue tape and mark everywhere its leaking so that you can go back and seal it up properly.

So if the outside temp is 95 degrees, what would this product turn that down too? I have a semi truck and I’m interested in this product. Will it get the truck cab cool enough?

Brian, how long does the battery last?

My opinion is this unit is overpriced. It is still just an A.C. unit being sold as portable. It doesn't seem to cool all that well however. I also use a truck topper for camping and wish someone would just design an affordable A.C. unit designed to fit the back sliding window. I enjoy your channel keep up the good content!

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Looks like it would better to have your intake air coming from the inside of your topper. It would be more efficient.

Way to expensive I have a 5000BTU window a/c and I made a wood tailgate that I put the a/c through. It works perfectly and you can't beat it for the price.

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price up 50%

Now u cooking with peanut oil lol

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This is a very expensive option.

When all else fails break out the instructions lol it’s a man thing. 🤣

Waste of money way too expensive.

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