What do you use to keep cool when abroad in your motorhome?

[garry63]

Hi
What do you use to keep cool when in Europe in the heat, either on hook up or wild camping?

 

[BillyKontiki]

Stay by the coast.

 

[Lenny HB]

Acclimatise after a few days & don't worry about it. We do have a Fantastic Fan Roof Vent which works well at cooling the van down.

 

[garry63]

We had some hot nights in spain before we got to site then had fans once on hook up

 

[WillH]

We use a fan on hookup or a USB fan if not.

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[Soycd]

Dometic Freshjet Airconditioning

 

[LesW]

Endless Breeze

 

[dunnah01]

The door and windows?

 

[Richard n Ann]

Evaporative cooling... ie mist myself in front of a fan.

 

[Grasmere9]

Windows open as we are driving and then blinds shut to keep out the sun when stopped. Cans of cooling spray! No fancy aircon in our old Arto!!

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[Captain Yoghurtpot]

No clothing, and a regular rub down with a well chilled bottle of something alcoholic.
If a little daunting of this method, I reccomend drinking said contents first before going Au natural.

 

[Landy Andy]

Maxxfan. It’s brilliant for cooling sleeps.

 

[garry63]

Whsts a maxxfan?

 

[jollyrodger]

Whsts a maxxfan?

Maxxair Maxxfan Deluxe Roof Vent Tinted, Smoke, White

Buy a Maxxair Maxxfan Deluxe Roof Vent Fan 400 x 400mm With Remote Control from Rainbow Conversions - motorhome and caravan, campervan equipment shop. Available with White, Smoke or Tinted top.

www.rainbow-conversions.co.uk

 

[Gina M]

A Dyson desk fan when on EHU and 6 USB chargeable fans which clip onto cupboards when off grid. If my boys want cool, they get cool

Gina.

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[Lenny HB]

Whsts a maxxfan?

Similar to a Fantastic Vent but better. Rooflight with built in fan.

 

[dabhand]

Nearest sea or river

 

[Mr porky]

Maxfan, cold cerveza and total cool fan unit.

 

[BillandHelen]

Dometic freshjet aircon, either on site electric or offsite by lithium.

 

[Carpmart]

Planning keeps the vehicle cool. Open all windows and doors early morning to get the cool air into the MoHo, then close as soon as the heat starts to build. A well insulate Motorhome will retain a decent departure, well below ambient if used cleverly.

Endless breeze moves the air well when needed.

Air-con on roof if really needed and on hookup,

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[Ditcha]

A good pair of speedos

 

[Shrimp]

Made covers for the opening windows that way the window is open but no sun comes in.
Wet cloth round neck.
Sitting in Tree shade-the coolest place.
At night-no bed covers, no clothing, wet clothes on body.

 

[Lenny HB]

A good pair of speedos

Not a pretty site.

 

[Sapper520]

Beer in the shade.

 

[Lenny HB]

A good pair of speedos

Not a pretty site.

I'm still getting over the thought of you in Speedos while having my morning cupper.

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[jezport]

A lot of people say evaporative coolers arent as good as aircon, which is true. But they do work I have kept one of these below, they use 60w @ 240v and we use our inverter when off grid. They work very well and only cost £50.00

Pardon our interruption...

I also have a transcool but this unit does pretty much the same thing at a fraction of the price.

 

[EuroTrotters]

Truma saphir underbench ducted a/c

 

[jezport]

Truma saphir underbench ducted a/c

Had that in my frankia, used it very little and found it slow to reduce the ambient temperature. OK if left on all week on a long stay.

 

[EuroTrotters]

Had that in my frankia, used it very little and found it slow to reduce the ambient temperature. OK if left on all week on a long stay.

We had a rooftop one on our frankia, sound like a train.

This Hymer is just under 7m. It’s the smallest saphir we have. But I simply close the blinds, put a windscreen cover on and it’s very effective. Usually takes around 2 hours to get to a comfortable temperature and then it maintains it easily.

Great bit of it.

 

[sciac2001]

Traditional Flamenco abanicos/fans