AC Filter Cleaning to Improve RV Cooling Efficiency
RV Lifestyle & Repair EditorsIn this free video lesson, RV Repair Club contributor Joshua Sherer walks you through the AC 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 AC 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 AC unit!
One of the best things that you can do for the efficiency for the AC unit on your RV is to maintain the filters. First, we're gonna 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 if you pull down, and drop out the filter. So let's remove the screws on this model.
To access the filter. We are in the sink because I found that dish soap and water is the best way to clean these filters. So you're gonna add a little bit of dish soap, we use a whole lot of water. To clean the filter. We're just gonna rinse it out, make sure that we get all the soap off.
All that dirt is just rinsing right out. Now that the filter is clean we're gonna set it outside to dry. Now that we have the filter clean we can move on to cleaning the grille, same process soap and water. Now that filter is dry we're gonna install it back in the vent and back up on the air conditioner. I'm gonna put the filter back in starting the screws by hand.
And we 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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