Mary & Joshua Sherer

A/C Filter Cleaning to Improve RV Cooling Efficiency

Mary & Joshua Sherer
Duration:   3  mins

Description

In this free video lesson, RV Repair Club contributor Joshua Sherer walks you through the A/C filter cleaning process so you can get your RV vents running more efficiently. On typical rigs used for standard travel, vents don’t need to be cleaned more than once per month. However, if you’re frequently traveling in regions where the air might not be so pure, you should consider taking care of your vents more often.

To begin the A/C filter cleaning, Joshua recommends first shutting down the unit. With the unit off, remove the filter and clean it thoroughly with dish soap and plenty of water. You’ll repeat this process with the grate. While you clean the grate, hang the filter outside to air dry. When the filter is dry, put it back into the grate, and screw or clip both back into the vent opening. As mentioned before, you should complete this process at least once per month and more often if necessary. Keep your filters clean, and you might see a big difference in the efficiency of your A/C unit!

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One Response to “A/C Filter Cleaning to Improve RV Cooling Efficiency”

  1. bscharf

    Hi I have always been told NOT to dump water containing dirt from cleaning into my grey water tanks. Please list the PROs and CONs of doing or not doing so.

One of the best things you can do for the efficiency for the AC unit on your RV, is to maintain the filters. First we're going to start off by making sure that the unit is off. There's many different enclosures for the air conditioning unit filters. This one happens to have four screws that hold it on. Some have just little clips that you hold down and drop out the filter. So let's remove the screws on this model. dust refilled. Over the sink because I found that dish soap and water is the best way to clean these filters. So you add little bit of dish soap and use whole lot of water. Clean the filter. We're just going to rinse it off, and should get all soap off all that dirt rinsing right out. Now that the filter is clean, we're going set it outside to dry. Now that we have a filter clean. We move on to cleaning the grade same process. Soap and water. Now that the filter is dry, we're going to install back in the vent back up on the air condition. Put the filter back in, starting screws by hand. Then you will run it up with the drill. Maintaining your filters will depend on your location, and your camping style, but I recommend to clean them at least once a month.
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