The AC that we are coming close to choosing is the Air Breeze 16,000 btu by CruiseAir or Domestic, the same people who makes the VacuFlush toilet that we have.
It is the same company that owns both company’s so it gets confusing. The AC units are branded different and use different controllers but are owned by the same company, Domestic.
I stopped at A to Z Marine and had a nice talk with them.
What is nice, and is probably not unique about this product, is that you can put a wire on the intake duck (course it cost extra) and it will act as the thermostat. Then as we wish, you can hide away the thermostat control some place and just use it to operate the AC and heat. We do not want the thermostat mounted in the bulkhead some place. It goes along with us not wanting the boat to look like an airport with all the little led lights.
The unit we are looking at is 8” high by 30” long. This should fit under the forward section of the settee and we can sound proof around it. Of course it costs more because it is not a high production model.
The settee is 12” high. It could be made 13” high by cutting out some of the top plywood or more if you want to cut away some of the plywood over the water tank. Still not really big enough for a standard AC unit.
Even though it is not bad looking we want it out of sight
Our other option was to put a AC unit under the salon seat by the companion way. This is where we would like to put the water maker. This spot is against the bulkhead that goes to the state room and would no doubt be heard by us in bed.
A lot of Freeport owners put a AC unit in the large hanging locker but we do not want it in the state room for noise reasons and my wife likes that hanging locker for her clothes etc.
So this project we will start at around the first of this new year (2011) along with the re-power.
It has heat by way of heat pump.
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