Lazy Daze Owners' Group

Cab air adequate ?

May 17, 2000, 08:46:39 am

Yahoo Message Number: 78

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I noticed a suggestion to hang a blanket or some type of physical break between the cab and coach areas to contain cool or heated air.

In the 30 ft model, the upper area over the cab is an entertainment center. Should we expect the 15,000 btu air conditioner adequate for cooling the entire coach and cab area? How would you hang something from the area where the entertainment center is located? If I'm remembering correctly, I believe it says in the promotional material that the cab area has had extra insulation added.

How about the cab area when driving. I wonder if the factory air will keep driver and passenger cool, without having to run the generator and coach air, too, during travel? Anyone have real world experience with recent models?

Thank you, MEL

Cab air adequate ?

Reply #2 – May 17, 2000, 12:14:01 pm

Yahoo Message Number: 80

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There may be some confusion here. To answer your question most directly, it is typical at the RV shows to run the roof air on the display models here in SoCal (Pomona) when it tends to be pretty warm out. The units at the LD display are always well-chilled inside.
Because of the good insulation and dark-tinted windows, the roof air is quite effective, though it may run a tad warmer in the cab. There certainly should be no reason to expect the dash air to have problems keeping the cab cool while driving.

The blanket trick applies mostly for energy conservation when dry-camping.
It reduces the heat load and thus the time the furnace or roof air needs to be on, and helps when using the evaporative cooler too. This trick is by no means exclusive to Lazy Daze, but may be more effective than with other brands without tinted or double-pane windows in the coach.

As most of our camping in our '83 is in colder weather and dry-camped, we use the blanket trick if we expect temps to go below about 45 at night, but do not use it in the daytime.

Steve

Cab air adequate ?

Reply #4 – May 17, 2000, 12:14:01 pm

Yahoo Message Number: 82

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There may be some confusion here. To answer your question most directly, it is typical at the RV shows to run the roof air on the display models here in SoCal (Pomona) when it tends to be pretty warm out. The units at the LD display are always well-chilled inside.
Because of the good insulation and dark-tinted windows, the roof air is quite effective, though it may run a tad warmer in the cab. There certainly should be no reason to expect the dash air to have problems keeping the cab cool while driving.

The blanket trick applies mostly for energy conservation when dry-camping.
It reduces the heat load and thus the time the furnace or roof air needs to be on, and helps when using the evaporative cooler too. This trick is by no means exclusive to Lazy Daze, but may be more effective than with other brands without tinted or double-pane windows in the coach.

As most of our camping in our '83 is in colder weather and dry-camped, we use the blanket trick if we expect temps to go below about 45 at night, but do not use it in the daytime.

Steve