/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Alright I think I found a suitable low wattage air conditioner for this project.

These 300w peltier coolers are used to cool traffic light cabinets that sit in the summer heat and need to stay cool to run properly, or data centers that want to cut electric costs since servers are already demanding high energy amounts. Servers need to stay cool to operate, just like people.

The problem is that they run on 24v dc and everything I've set up is for 12v, but they also run on ac so they could be that one luxury I use ac power for when it's necessary. They're cheap enough to buy 2, and are 400x400mm so it would fit on the back doors beneath the windows. The cold air inlet is perfectly positioned over the bed area, and there will be a curtain closing the area off from the rest of the van, so I could sleep in my very own server cabinet haha. I doubt they'd look strange on the back of a cargo van, since they're commonly seen on city infrastructures.

They even do heat, and that runs off 12v dc I believe.