Air Conditioning, is it difficult to rig on a boat?
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Air Conditioning, is it difficult to rig on a boat?
I need to install air conditioning to my canopy MTI. Is this difficult to install? Any ideas on what system to use and how to rig it? I did place a call to NautiCool. I am not sure if they sell to end users or not. I want to rig it myself. Not sure how much either.
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I bought a 5K BTU Cruisair unit and installed it myself on a 31 ft Formula. Hope you don't mind drilling a few holes in your boat. It cost me about $1,500.00 and around 40 hours to complete the project. (you can look it up in old threads in the Formula Forums.)
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Pretty easy actually! Mount it, locate the water pump/pickup, run the plumbing to the unit, locate the thermostat control, install an inverter and run the duct work.
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I bought an Ocean Breeze 10k BTU with heat for $1200 off eBay included everything & digital thermostat, it took me about 20 hours to complete. The unit runs off a 2000w genset, and is not a reverse cycle heat, so you don't have to be in the water to run heat, you do for the AC...
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Yeah, I need the system that runs off the engine much like a car. Weight is slight factor as well. It is going in a race canopy boat. Need to keep the cockpit cool at 100 mph.