papawads
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Posts: 48
Jeanneau Model: SO 43 DS
Country: Greece
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Post by papawads on Jul 22, 2021 8:35:48 GMT
Our 43 DS has an aircon unit under the salon seating with both a local outlet and one to the fwd cabin. Having merged the two aft cabins I’m keen to route it there.
Has anyone done this? Lessons learned?
Thanks
Joe
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Post by colinnz on Jul 22, 2021 19:10:10 GMT
Doesn't help I guess but our 2002 43DS had another unit in the aft garage and the ducting was from there into the rear cabin(s). I feel you have few options. Through aft head or through back of pan cupboard (which would be at least the correct side). Not a lot of help I know. I am just removing mine as the units were rusted heaps and now I have hoses that are just taking up space.
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Post by Don Reaves on Jul 22, 2021 20:23:12 GMT
How big is your A/C unit? Is it big enough to be extended to the aft cabin? You should definitely investigate this issue before going through a painful process of adding duct work.
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Post by andreshs1 on Jul 24, 2021 12:38:28 GMT
Hi
We have the 3 cabin setup (1 forward with desk, salon and master aft) and a single 16BTU air-con under the salon seating, with a dual exit (salon and fwd cabin) and another to the aft cabin.
in a very sunny/hot day it will 'just' cope with the heat (33 C & 95% humidity is the summer in Hong Kong...), but it does work great once the sun starts going down, and for sleeping we never keep it on the coolest setting
the conduit to the aft cabin runs behind the fridge
cheers
Andres
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Post by alenka on Jul 27, 2021 8:07:42 GMT
We asked our techie about this last year and he said it was possible but with new holding tank, new battery and charger/inverter set up installed, new through hulls and a dozen other minor jobs undertaken it has had to go onto the back burner until next year. I don't want to lose any aft storage space so another unit is not going to happen. At the moment we simply leave the cabin doors open and set the fans to direct the cool air aft. I had looked at maybe getting one of these.... www.kudauk.ltd.uk/product/zero-breeze-mark-2-plus-battery-powered-air-conditioner-12v-24-240v-uk-euWhich can use even when not on shore power. |
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Post by rxc on Jul 31, 2021 19:31:13 GMT
We have the same sort of setup with the large unit (16k BTU Webasto) under the settee in the main cabin feeding outlets outboard of the mast, and up in the fwd cabin. We also have a smaller unit (7k BTU) located under the floor inboard of the stove (cooker), with one outlet into the aft cabin. The duct into the aft cabin comes out on the aft side of the stbd hanging locker. Both work pretty well. Both units work off of the same SW pump with separate discharge fittings. I have a 6kw Northern light genset to run them at anchor.
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