OurNewEra
Senior Member
I would recommend using foul tape and not the standard grey duct tape. Duct tape shouldn't be used in HVAC duct work.
Are you using an RV Airflow to get the air into the ducts? Or will you just be shutting down draft vent?
Shepstone
Member
Maybe a gasket if the unit doesn’t come with one, I keep a spare one just in case anyway. And dicor (or your favourite) caulking.
I am assuming that you are going to put it where there is already an existing vent. If that's the case, I would buy a couple of plastic putty knives at Lowes or Home Depot or wherever, and also have a heat gun (or a 1500 Watt hair dryer handy) to heat up the sealant around the vent on top. My advice is to heat a small area thoroughly, then CAREFULLY start the putty knife peeling up the sealant. Two very important words to remember ......GO SLOW! It's very easy to pull/stretch and sometimes tear the TPO roofing membrane if you get in a hurry. Just take your time and work it slow, using the heat gun or hair dryer. The warmer the outside temperatures are, the easier it will be to remove the sealant. It's still a pain in the rear, but it's doable. Good luck. And when I bought mine and installed it, it DID come with the roof gasket.
Dicor is handy but shouldn't need it per instructions does come with a gasket in the box though.
I was at least thinking foul tape when I wrote duct tape. Thanks for catching that. It's a ducted unit so just shutting down the manual vents.
Hokensalem
Senior Member
If your AC is not setup for a thermostat you will need a relay control box that mounts in the plenum of the AC. Also if you don't have a low voltage wire in the opening you will need one. Mine only had the 120 volt wire.
And that low voltage wiring would be 12VDC.
Thermostat wire is in the wall waiting patiently.
Pre-wired thankfully.
Actually, to be fully "prewired", there will be 120VAC wiring, a multi-conductor thermostat cable, AND the 12VDC wiring....which is a 2 conductor cable with 12VDC + and minus.
That's above my electrical pay grade; there's just a wire waiting for a thermostat in the wall bundled with the light switch wires is what I do know.
Hokensalem
Senior Member
You are good to go. I had to run 12 volt DC and thermostat wire to mine.
LOL....just letting you know what will be required for a successful installation. When you get to the part that tells you to hook up the 12VDC, if there's none there, you'll have to get some there. Fortunately, when I installed mine several years ago in a different trailer than I have presently, everything was there as far as the wiring goes. The hard part, after getting the unit on the roof, was finding the other end of the thermostat cable, which was dead ended inside a wall. I had an idea where it should have been, but it still took some time, and the removal of a couple of light switches to stick a small mirror in the holes and try to find the other end the thermostat cable.
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