I bought a wheelchair van for my wife, it's a very nice Promaster 159 extended Tempest XL. It's doing a great job as a wheelchair van.
When they were installing everything I asked them to put in an external power plug for "shore power" like I have on our camper trailer. I always used that to plug in my generator and run the Air Conditioning if needed.
In my ignorance it didn't occur to me that when I ordered the "extreme Air cond. and heating" package for the Promaster Tempest XL (under the vehicle)... I didn't realize that it probably runs on DC and any shore power I hooked up would be A/C and thus wouldn't really help me run the air or Heat at night... I'd have to start the engine of the vehicle if I wanted to park the vehicle overnight somewhere.
I know there are plenty of DC to A/C inverters but that's not going to help me power the Air conditioning from shore power, right?
Sorry I don't know what I don't know about all this, I bought the van because w needed a wheelchair vehicle but it has the potential to be a Class B motorohome as my wife improves over the year. Is there anything I can do with the $4,000 heating and Air cond. package I bought other than operate it with the engine running? Thanks, Jim
I am correct in assuming (now) that this big honkin' air conditioner I bought is only going to be able to run if the engines running and I can't power it with external A/C power.
When they were installing everything I asked them to put in an external power plug for "shore power" like I have on our camper trailer. I always used that to plug in my generator and run the Air Conditioning if needed.
In my ignorance it didn't occur to me that when I ordered the "extreme Air cond. and heating" package for the Promaster Tempest XL (under the vehicle)... I didn't realize that it probably runs on DC and any shore power I hooked up would be A/C and thus wouldn't really help me run the air or Heat at night... I'd have to start the engine of the vehicle if I wanted to park the vehicle overnight somewhere.
I know there are plenty of DC to A/C inverters but that's not going to help me power the Air conditioning from shore power, right?
Sorry I don't know what I don't know about all this, I bought the van because w needed a wheelchair vehicle but it has the potential to be a Class B motorohome as my wife improves over the year. Is there anything I can do with the $4,000 heating and Air cond. package I bought other than operate it with the engine running? Thanks, Jim
I am correct in assuming (now) that this big honkin' air conditioner I bought is only going to be able to run if the engines running and I can't power it with external A/C power.