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Re: Improving energy efficiency in your coach

Reply #50 –
The exterior of our coach is mostly white gel coat. The graphics appear to be stock patterns, but are painted. The HVAC systems do a good job of keeping the coach comfortable in temperatures from -5F to 105F. The ZipDee window awnings help a lot in hot, sunny weather.

Dark exteriors will gain heat faster than light colored exteriors when the sun is shining on them. They will lose heat faster in the dark.
J D Stevens
1997 U295 CAI 36' Build #5085
2002 Subaru Outback
Motorcade 16869
Bellville, TX
 

Re: Improving energy efficiency in your coach

Reply #51 –
Our coach has a new white painted roof except over the front end cap. That is black as is about 2/3 of the coach. Through all of this 100+ heat in Oklahoma this summer, with the bubble wrap in the front windows and in the overhead cabinets above the dash, the plug in the skylight and bubble wrap over the bathroom vent, awnings out and the coach facing east we were able to cool the coach with just one of our A/C's about 18 hours a day and just  the front A/C at night.
The selected media item is not currently available.Kent Speers
Locust Grove, OK
1993 U300 SSE 40' (Restored at FOT 2009) Build 4323
720 watts Solar
6V92TA DDEC Silver Engine
2014 Subaru Outback