Air Conditoned Tent for those hot months

Step 2: General Plan

First measure the size of the air conditioner, and then apply this to the tent and ripstop fabric with a marker. Use spray on glue or Beacon fabric glue to apply the re enforcing fabric to the outside of the tent. Once done with outside the ducting part of the project needs to be created by measuring the size of the air conditioner unit and leaving a few extra inches on that end for easy fitment. On the other end the duct will need to fit the size of the hole which has been reinforced already and the duct will be adhered to the inside of the tent (see diagram below).

The black is where the hole will be for the ac, the white is the duct which is cut out to fit to the tent. The tent is the gray part while the red will be a piece of fabric like on the outside to reinforce over the top of the duct connection point.

EDIT: After using the unit sticking the A/C unit so it was in the tent was better than having the connecting tube, better flow of air.

Comments

[spartancaver]

It looks simple enough. However, taking it from a professional building engineer, that tube thing could have serious drawback. Remember, that window unit only circulates room air through and over the evaporator (cooling) coils. They look just like that radiator looking thing on the outside of the unit. (Oh, yea. flatten or bend enough of those fins over and the unit will blow up and quit working because of no air flow) Problem with the diagram above. The air inside the tent must be drawn into the unit. The heat is removed and the cooler air is blown back into the tent. Now, if all the air can do is blow out and get sucked right back in, then what is happening on the other side of the tent? Nothing, no air flow. Point being, keep any ducting / tubing, down to as very short as possible for proper air flow.

[welder85]

Its called short cycling. The face needs to be flush on the inside or a divider of some sort between the top (supply) and bottom (return). I'd try keeping the inside flush myself. And don't block any of the outside louvers. The biggest deal I see is condensation and getting it away from your tent. That's the water coming off the coil in the back. With a little work you can get pre made tin boots that fit tight over the supply and return front openings (square to round) and run insulated flex ducts into your tent just keep them a couple feet apart. The army does it all the time. Not as hard as you think.