Great pictures, I just ordered the Carrier for my daughters pop up. I do have a question. She has a Jayco 1206 HW pop up that calims to be AC ready. What does that AC ready actually mean? There is an existing vent that we installed a Fantastic Vent in its place and would like to just put the AC in place of that unit. Does the AC ready mean there are power leads around the inside shroud of the existing vent? I can't remember seeing any wires in there and we had to run 12 volts from a nearby light for the Fantastic vent. I just want to be a bit prepared when it gets here so we can complete the install quickly. Thanks again for such great pictures.I have been avoiding this because of install concerns.
I have gone 2 weeks of camping with virtually no clogging of the filter and other times it clogs in 1 week. It all depends upon the area and climate you are in. I have gotten in the habit of sliding them out every 3-4 days. That might take a whopping 30 seconds to do. Keep those clean and you'll love that unit.
Greg
Thanks for the tip! We will definitely keep that in mind. Do you clean them by running water over them or vacuuming them?
2008 Starcraft 13 RT
'09 F150 Lariat 5.4L V8 SCrew, 3.73 LS, Max Tow Pkg, Trailer Brk Contrlr, Moonroof, Reverse sensors, Razor Red
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YC 1 wrote: What does that AC ready actually mean? There is an existing vent that we installed a Fantastic Vent in its place and would like to just put the AC in place of that unit. Does the AC ready mean there are power leads around the inside shroud of the existing vent? I can't remember seeing any wires in there and we had to run 12 volts from a nearby light for the Fantastic vent. I just want to be a bit prepared when it gets here so we can complete the install quickly. Thanks again for such great pictures.I have been avoiding this because of install concerns.
You're welcome and we understand the concerns. We asked a lot of questions ourselves and especially were looking for photos of an installation. When we couldn't find any, we decided to record our installation with photos for others.
We already have a vent over the shower area that cools the trailer most of the time by simply pulling the hot air out of the trailer and keeping a breeze going through (not to mention acting as an exaust fan for the shower/toilet area). So we didn't want to remove it. I think some people may use that hole for an AC but you would still have to run an electrical cord from the unit to one of the outlets (our outlet is near the heater on the opposite end from the exhaust vent). Our popup does not have power running through the ceiling to the AC-ready framing. In our case, AC ready meant the roof was strengthened (framed out) to handle the weight of the AC near the center of our popup with an available outlet nearby. In our case, we could barely see the outline of the framing when looking across the top of the roof and the ceiling inside. If you check our photos, you can see how we handled the cord running from the AC to the outlet.
I hope this helps but will have DH check my message to see if I left anything out. Seriously, it was waaaay easier than we anticipated (except for the weight of the unit which DH handled himself because I'm not supposed to be lifting weight like that). I think our biggest question was how difficult it would be to cut the hole and it wasn't at all. We asked about using caulking and were told "do not use it, the gasket that comes with the AC is your seal." That was from professional installers.
My wife pretty well covered this, but I'll just post my comments too.
YC 1 wrote: Great pictures, I just ordered the Carrier for my daughters pop up. I do have a question. She has a Jayco 1206 HW pop up that calims to be AC ready. What does that AC ready actually mean?
You probably ought to call Jayco and ask.
In our 2008 Starcraft 13RT, AC ready meant that there is an electrical outlet labeled for the air conditioner, and a support structure in the roof. There was no wiring direct to the roof - the air conditioner electrical outlet is next to the electrical panel.
There was no vent or hole where we installed the AC unit, but we could see a square 14"x14" outline on the roof where the support structure was built into the roof.
YC 1 wrote: There is an existing vent that we installed a Fantastic Vent in its place and would like to just put the AC in place of that unit. Does the AC ready mean there are power leads around the inside shroud of the existing vent? I can't remember seeing any wires in there and we had to run 12 volts from a nearby light for the Fantastic vent. I just want to be a bit prepared when it gets here so we can complete the install quickly. Thanks again for such great pictures.I have been avoiding this because of install concerns.
Look for an outlet near your electrical panel labeled for the AC, with a 20 amp socket - it has an additional horizontal slot on the left as well as the customary 2 vertical slots and round ground hole you're used to seeing on standard 3 wire 15 amp electrical sockets. No idea if you actually have that or not, but we did.
Thanks to campfido my daughter and sil now have AC too. After looking at your pictures I had the confidence to buy the carrier 13.5 ac with the heat strip for their pop up. After opening the boxes and reading the instructions and then looking at your pictures we were able to have it in and running in about 40 minutes. That included removing the existing vent and fan. Another 30 minutes to do the final routing of the power cable after testing it with a temporary setup and we were having steaks and beer. If the Carrier folks were smart they would copy your pictures onto a cd and include those instead of the abysmal directions they included.
Thank you again, and my daughter thanks you and my grandchildren thank you and I thank you.
As for the pop up being "Air Conditioner ready" I found a single outlet marked just for that purpose. It has one socket so can't be overloaded. There was a vinyl sock hanging along the inside of the pop up to run the AC cord through. The Air Conditioner fit right into the vents opening and no holes had to be drilled. Four bolts were tightened to compress the gasket and no other sealer was used.
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