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Old 09-14-2010, 09:15 AM   #13
rdunk
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 482
We had our DRV Suite for five years, and spent the summers in Texas - not desert, but hot hot. We never had a cooling problem!!! When we bought , we upgraded to two 15K A/C's with heat pumps. Even on the hottest days, our A/C's would cycle on and off normally, and easily keep the inside temps per our comfort settings.

We did have most of the options, including the thermo-pane tinted windows, and the propane generator. The gen-set had no problem running the two A/C's! One thing our RE3 didn't have was the huge rear window, which was a significant help in maintaining inside comfort temps.

FWIW, I do recall once being parked in the summer, near Houston, next to someone who had a smaller 5th wheel with only one A/C. They had their windows foiled over, and ran inside fans, but were still hot. At the end of the month, we compared electric bills, and ours was about the same as theirs, except we stayed cool, and they did not. Their one A/C pretty much ran 24/7, while ours cycled on and off normally.

Robert
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