12 volt air conditioners

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

I have a Fordor out of Texas that we are doing and the customer has asked us to install A/C. I believe the technology is not too far off in the future for belt-driven compressors to be obsolete however with the new invertor compressors, I'm not sure the reliability is there yet. It's coming though. Look at 120v mini-split A/C units and how electrical efficient they are.

We recently built a new truck to pull our trailer with, and we installed a 12v powered roof mounted A/C on top of it. The complete compressor is about half the size of a Model-A Generator -and that is the entire compressor & motor unit. Ours is about 9000btu and pulls about 40 amps on turbo mode (maximum) but then settles in about 25 amps on maintaining the temps. The best part is it is tiny. You can barely see it on top of the roof.