My air conditioned tent setup for extended trips in hot humid weather with a newair ac unit.
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2022
- In this video I try my very best to cool a six man 3 season tent with the newair air conditioner model NAC08KWH01. I walk through my thought process and eventually we get it set up for testing. This may be too much for a camping elitist to handle.
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Those little units work great. I work at a hospital and when the lab got a new test machine in we found out it put off a lot of heat for the room it was placed in and the hvac couldn't keep up. So one of these units was put in to use for two years until a mini split was put in that room. So I can attest that these things do a remarkable job in cooling
Now that's my kind of camping!! Comfort galore!
I clicked the like button during the the warning well done lol
Ok, air conditioner, this is what I was looking for. But a ceiling fan? Wow, that's awesome.
Those fans help out in a major way. Thanks for the kind comment
I did something similar. It would have been unbearable camping without A/C. I'm looking forward to a canvas tent and that will make an AC even more effective. I'd be careful with a reflective tarp because it might compromise your rainfly. I have a big agnus bunk house 6 man tent so destroying the rainfly would be expensive. I used moving blankets on one side to block airflow going out the ceiling and simply collapsed the other side because it's a full fly. It worked really well.
Please check back in when you do this with a canvas tent. I would like to know the result and thank you for the tip about moving blankets👍
I live in south texas. I promise im about to bring camping to a new level. Its just me and my dog and im so excited to get started! ❤
I just spent over a grand on furniture & cool /fun camping accessories, decor. i bought the ozark 18x19’ glamping tent. It’s been so long since I’ve been camping but we set this up in the backyard for family fun. Im in Florida tho & holy cow it’s unbearably hot! We went out & bought a portable AC w/10,000 btu’s. Ab to get the Velcro & material to cover the all mesh. I can’t thank u enough for this video! I’d hate to have to take this tent back after all the work it took setting up & decorating. This saves me a hassle. ❤ worst case scenario I’ll buy a different tent to hold air better but I’d like to keep this one if at all possible
I'm born and raised in Florida and i know exactly what your talking about with the summer camping. I have the same type of setup ,I have a gazelle T8, with 8,000btu
Yep, I’ll never camp in Florida without ac unless it’s off season.
@@unclebillscamping I agree 👍
I have the T6 Gazelle, live in TX and am looking to upgrade to the same thing you are doing. The heat is just not comfortable.
@@matthewmichalski2879 a gazelle would probably work very well with this setup with little to no modification. I would look into a two hose unit opposed to a single hose that way you have positive and not negative pressure inside the tent.
I setup the same type of ac in a canvas tent. The seal was so good it was pulling vacuum in the tent. I couldn't get the temp that low without cracking a window to let air in. Thinking of getting a dual hose
A dual hose would probably work better and if I had the chance to do it over again that is what I would go with.
What if the place I'm camping doesn’t have a power source??? Like in the middle of a field
That's how you do it in the southeast people. Anytime time of the year.
We’re thinking of doing Fort Wilderness in Disney august of 2025… never even thought of an AC in the tent! We already have a portable one for my apartment since the windows weren’t made for the window/wall units. Going to have to pullout the tent and see how we can set it up 🤔
I’m not sure if it’s still around but you should check out mousesavers.com as well as search camping at Fort Wilderness. There are a lot of money and time saving resources there.
@@unclebillscampingthank you, I’ll look into them.
Your lady picked a good one......!
Thank you for that👍
i live 45 miles from pensacola an one tip i will give is go ahead an invest in a kodiak spring bar tent for doing this and first time you use it with ac you will kick yourself for not doing it first time only disadvantage to them is weight an canvas is cooler in the direct sun even without the ac!!
If I lived in the area I probably would invest in one since the are so durable.
Where is the ice bath and margarita?
What's his power source for the air conditioner?
Awesome set up man I had the same idea with the top vents badass seeing it come to. 1 question for ya how’s it work with one hose? I heard the ac units with the two hoses work better if that makes any sense
I’m hindsight I would use a two hose setup this way there would not be negative pressure inside the tent. The one hose system works great but it tries to pull air in from every place it can.
lol at the Reddit part . It’s ture. They are all stuck up about camping there >:(
There are more than a few users over that think there is only one way to camp that’s why I stick mostly to just the campinggear subreddit.
How do I fix the air condition form sucking in my tent when I turn it on
Make sure you’re tent is staked down and that you use your guy lines. You may have to let some air in to equalize the pressure. Maybe a little opening near exhaust tube
Thanks
What are you using for a power source?
This runs on land power supplied at the campground. One of the reasons I recommend only using this in an rv site. You could use a generator but I would make sure you are not near other tent campers.
Do the test in open sunlight no shade as with most campsites. Let us know how it works then. 91 deg is not hot for those of us in the south. That let’s go outside and ride bikes temps lol
That why people with common sense dont go camping in the summer where its hot and humid.
It’s not something I would recommend but sometimes it plays out that way.
@@unclebillscamping have fun when u choose to and great job figuring out how to do it
Doug Gober you don’t have to be such a rude douche bag abt it !! Give the man a break!