Not from personal experience, but I have heard that these
work great as long as you live some place that is arid not
humid. If you're Canadian don't bother...

Thanks,
Chris

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 18:55:49 -0800
>From: phil stanhope <napszeerf@YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: Air Conditioner
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>Has anyone heard of these ice assisted evaporating AC
>units? They plug into your cigarette lighter and they
>say it only needs to be refilled with ice every 30-40
>minutes for maximim cooling.
>
>http://www.swampy.net/icemystr.html
>http://www.swampy.net/im30.html
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>Snake Oil or??
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>Phil84' Westy Tiico (The Millenium Falcon)
>60' Morris Mini1340CC
>84' Westfalia Wolfsburg edition--FOR SALE-SE
>VENDE!!!!!!(Florida Title/2nd owner)
>AC, PS, 4spd. Super clean interior, Captains chairs,
>rare removeable center bench seat for 6 passenger
>capability. Body has some rusty seams
>Rolling Chassis-(Has NO engine)-Perfect for a
>conversion project!!! Tiico? Subaru?
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>--- Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM> wrote:
>> Back in the early sixties Chrysler came out with
>> their electronic
>> ignition, a turbine car that ran on Wesson oil or
>> anything clean enough
>> not to clog the injectors. Ford came out with
>> Overhead can 427 engines
>> and GM was experimenting with an Automotive AC unit
>> that cooked the Freon
>> in/on/around/near the Exhaust manifold and powered
>> the required heat to
>> force the Freon gas through the system. Problem was
>> the Freon got to over
>> 600 degrees in about fifteen minutes and the
>> pressures became
>> extraordinary. The extreme pressure literally cut
>> the orifices out of the
>> regulators and exploded the condenser and
>> evaporators. They continued
>> working on the system until 1965 to be installed on
>> the newly released
>> Toronado. The first Toronado that came through the
>> dealership I was
>> working with had appendages cast into the exhaust
>> manifolds to mount this
>> system but the innovative system had been abandoned
>> by release time.
>> So there have been a lot of people working on a zero
>> horsepower AC unit
>> for many years.
>>
>> Stan Wilder
>>
>> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:18:40 +0800 David Wilhite
>> <dnmwilhite@EARTHLINK.NET> writes:
>> > I use the hang in window air conditioner on my van
>> when camping
>> > during the summer myself, but have always been
>> thinking of other
>> > solutions.
>> >
>> > I was wondering if anybody has considered the
>> following method.
>> > Install an AC motor in the engine bay with a belt
>> going to the
>> > compressor.  Put a double clutch on the vehicle
>> air conditioner
>> > compressor to handle the belt from the AC motor
>> and the engine.  Use
>> > a transformer/invertor to change the 120 VAC to 12
>> VDC to run the
>> > interior air conditioner duct fan and the fan up
>> front behind the
>> > radiator.  This would be ideal, because there
>> would be no
>> > modifications to the vanagon body itself and no
>> appreciable space
>> > would be used.
>> >
>> > I haven't researched how much horsepower the air
>> conditioner
>> > compressor uses or if a double clutch unit is
>> available.  My
>> > thinking is that these would be the two hang ups
>> for following
>> > through on this idea.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> > --
>> >
>> >
>> > 86' Syncro GL (for sale)
>> > 84' Subaruvanagon Westy
>> > 01' KLR650
>> >
>>
>>
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