[C320-list] AC Install Advice

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Ben 

My AC unit (16000 BTU)  is mounted in the V Berth and it fits fine. The 16000 btu unit does fine here on the Chesapeake in the summer.    I have 3 vents 1 in the V berth  4x8 rectangle, 1 4in round on port side under the table and 1 4 in round in the aft cabin.   Problem I have is that the large 4x8 puts out a lot of air and you freeze in the v berth at night and it takes a long time to cool aft cabin.  

If I did it over again I would keep main unit in V Berth but reconfigure vents. I did not put the unit in the port locker because my 
boat already had the famous 320 port list and I did not want to make it worse.

Our boats are really close close in age I have hull #30 . 

  Tony 
#30


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Cares <bcares at caresphotoarts.com>
To: C320-List <C320-List at catalina320.com>
Sent: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 2:35 pm
Subject: Re: [C320-list] AC Install Advice


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