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Camill Paul Elbisser (Paul)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 3:41 pm: | |
The wife and I saw a New Prevost with roof mounted radiator for the generator. I think this coach came from Pioneer Coach in Madison, TN. I was wondering if anyone has tried this on their bus conversion or seen this done? They still had a small fan in the generator bay. The air went in the grill on the outside bottom of the bay door and up through the bay door and went out the top of the inside of the bay door. Air flow went over the Generator and out bottom of Generator bay. Would like to hear your Opinon on this mater.
Hope to hear from you
Paul & Claudiene
www.incredibus.com |
Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 6:05 pm: | |
Haven't heard of that approach, but here is what I finished doing on our bus today. I had installed our PowerTech generator (without a sound box) in the condenser compartment. I had left the radiator installed on the generator and left the grill in the condenser door open for ventilation. It was too noisy for us.
I removed the radiator from the generator and moved it to the rear of the former spare tire compartment after making a new rear wall for that compartment. The 14" X 14.5" PowerTech radiator is now cooled by a 14" electric fan.
The generator was left in the condenser compartment, after soundproofing it, including completely covering the mesh on the door. The air intake for this compartment is through the space between the condenser compartment ceiling and the bus interior floor. The generator compartment is cooled by moving air through that compartment using 3 4" bilge blowers rated at 230 CFM each.
We have an alarm system that monitors the ambient air temperature in the generator compartment. I started the generator and turned on all AC. With an outside air temp of 85, the generator compartment never got above 89.
One thing we did discover was that the hoses connecting the generator to the radiator have to remain below the level of the top of the generator or the water pump will nor circulate the water. To have the radiator on the roof must require some type of aux. water pump. Jack |
Camill Paul Elbisser (Paul)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 7:41 pm: | |
A King in the middle east came up with this design because of the sand being sucked up into the generator unit. The people we met has had no problems with this system. The controls for the fan are set to come on at 195 degrees and off at 180 degrees. He said that most of the time the fan dose not come on because of the natural flow of the air. With the radiators cap on top of the bus it might be hard to add water. But bus people love a challenge that why we are called
BUS NUTS !!!!!!! |
Jon W.
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 7:52 pm: | |
Country Coach is doing that on their new Prevost conversions. |
Doug G
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 12, 2006 - 8:14 pm: | |
Some south Florida school system is spec.ing their school buses with the AC radiators on the roof. Supervisor reports better cooling and less dirt. So a generator should have the same advantage. |