Mermaid AC\Heat

We are about to order the 12,000 btu and 5200 btu Mermaid units.

The pricing is wright but there are a few issues to clear up.

On the 12,000 btu unite we need to figure out where the ducking will come out, the right, the left or top.

Will Mermaid do a re-design of the unites any time soon, if so we would wait for the new technology or have they recently done a design change etc.

The digital thermostats, they say one comes with the unite but they offered me one for $150.00?

So it looks like next week some time we will possibly place an order.

I know years back the Gemini catamaran used a 16,000 btu unite and it was said to be noisy. It was in a shielded box but still it was a stool type seat thing. We have emailed their support but have no heard anything back from them.  They have made some nice design changes.

The aft hanging locker is where most AC’s seem to go. We are going to keep the unite out of the hanging locker and the state room. It will go under the forward settee in our boat, the 5200 btu unite and cool \heat the stateroom.  My wife is OK with some ducking in the hanging locker for the intake and a duck for the output running up the inside of her locker\closet. I think we will try for an out let in the head also but that is a wait and see thing. Got to have two at any rate. It will also help reduce noise while sleeping. We can insulate the settee are where the unite goes. It will be interesting how it all works out.