[C320-list] AC Install Advice

[Ben Cares]

Bryan:
I'm considering all the options you mention plus one other . . . under the
V Berth aft of the water tank (have to sacrifice those two little drawers
which we never use anyway). Runs are still long but not as long as
starboard locker location. And you can hit head and aft cabin once you get
through main salon. Just a thought.
Ben
#35

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Bryan Morton <bryanmorton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know this topic has been brought up before but does anyone have advice on
> the best way to install AC on the 320.  We are going to install a 16000 BTU
> unit next week. I have read several posts saying that the best place to
> install the unit is in the “aft port locker” but I am unclear if this means
> in the Lazarette (in front of the wheel) or the space under the aft port
> seat (behind the wheel) where the Adler Barbour fridge compressor is
> installed.  It would seem to me that an installation in the Lazarette would
> make for a shorter and more direct routing of a cooling duct to a salon
> vent near the bread box but the plumbing would be more difficult.  Space in
> the Lazarette would also be sacrificed.  Installation under the aft port
> seat would be easier from an air return and plumbing point of view but
> would mean a longer and less direct cooling duct run to the salon.  This in
> theory would mean a reduction in air velocity at the vent discharging into
> the salon.  Maybe I am over thinking this.  I also read that the factory
> installation is above the Diesel tank in the aft starboard locker (like in
> the upgrade ac article posted by Jeff Hare on the C320 Association web
> site).  This seems more difficult than the other two options.  If anyone
> has some photos of their installation they would be greatly appreciated as
> I am struggling to visualize how this going to go.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bryan
>
> Slainte Mhath (Hull 32)
>



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