who's gonna be first?

[Plymouthy Adams]

12V Automotive air-conditioner Electric A/C Compressor Kit Universal For Cars | eBay

 

While you will not have parasitic loss with the compressor, you will be making up for that loss with the alternator....you not getting out alive if that is what you thinking.....lol

alternator with the proper IL at idle lets just say that specs are not the forefront of marketing, it is computer says fit and you live with that these days it seems.  We know the IR as that is going be withe the stated 100A unit....but ability to sustain this unit when idling at a stop light you going to want to be able to feed the system without total dependency on the battery.  A high reserve battery will be a must also.  

 

ANY TAKERS.....?  considering one now for an LBC.....

[Eneto-55]

Just curious if you have looked at these elsewhere, like where you can see the brand info, and hopefully some installation instructions. (I don't think I've heard of them until your post.) 

 

I haven't had it to the shop yet to "hear the bad news", but the A/C gave out on our 2019 Ram Classic - over Winter. (When Summer came, and it was needed, it just isn't cool anymore. Gauge shows 'over-filled', so I suspect that the compressor shelled out.)

 

I have looked at some conventional type (belt driven) after-market units, and I suspect even that might be cheaper than getting one fixed.  (Also, I haven't had good experience with that. Seems the shop may not get the system flushed completely, because the one I had rebuilt on a 98 Neon froze up (the compressor), and chewed up the belt. Fortunately for that car, it only took out the power steering, and my daughter was able to complete the trip out to Indiana she was doing for a wedding, and then get back home by just strong-arming it.

 

I came from Oklahoma, and we never had A/C, so I'm "used to the heat", but my wife (from here in Ohio) won't like going anywhere in the Plymouth with no A/C.

Edited August 22 by Eneto-55

[Plymouthy Adams]

check your trinary switch

[Sniper]

Another forum I was on had this discussion recently.  Vintage Air has a write up on it (here's the link Semmerling).

 

https://vintageair.com/tech-topic-is-an-electric-compressor-a-good-option-for-my-hot-rod

 

Summation, pass for now.

[Ulu]

Here you need a heat pump a/c that will run off of waste heat coming from the car in front of you.

 

(Please do not ask me how to do that.)

 

Having a roadster now, a/c is virtually out of the question.

 

But, it’s an air cooled engine. What if it was freon cooled? Junk the giant VW squirrelcage fan setup and run a compressor.

 

I gotta go find out if this has ever been done.

[Eneto-55]

1 hour ago, Ulu said:

Here you need a heat pump a/c that will run off of waste heat coming from the car in front of you.

 

(Please do not ask me how to do that.)

 

Having a roadster now, a/c is virtually out of the question.

 

But, it’s an air cooled engine. What if it was freon cooled? Junk the giant VW squirrelcage fan setup and run a compressor.

 

I gotta go find out if this has ever been done.

During our time living in a remote part of the Amazon, we had a gas refrigerator (for a few years, until it developed a leak), and in thinking about the fact that you could use a fire to freeze something made me think if we could just have one small room there where we could run a dehumidifier on nothing but solar heat. (I had extreme allergy to molds, and every time we returned to the village after an absence the house had to be sweapt out, and I would get a bad reaction. We couldn't leave bedding and towels there because of my problem.)  Or, even a small air conditioned room...!  I figured that if any one would be able to build something like that it would be the Japanese or the Germans.