Cooling and heating noise

[Starbrightsteve]

In another thread on this forum, several postings refer to Escapes air conditioner and heater as being very noisy. I presently have a 2011 Casita that has what I consider quiet heating and cooling equipment. I think it was 2013 or 2014 Casita bought Coleman Mach 8 AC units and started installing them on new trailers. To say the least, new owners were not impressed. One post described the AC unit as "embarrassingly loud" outside and terribly loud inside. The furor over this Coleman piece of junk resulted in a retrofit kit being developed by Orbital Machine Works that many Casita owners and other Mach 8 owners have installed to drastically reduce the noise.
Have any Escape owners quantified from the noise from the AC and heater using a decibel meter? Hopefully Escape is not using a Mach 8. Maybe some ex Casita owners could offer their impression of the noise level comparison between the pre 2012 Casita and their new Escape.

[rubicon327]

Originally Posted by Starbrightsteve

In another thread on this forum, several postings refer to Escapes air conditioner and heater as being very noisy. I presently have a 2011 Casita that has what I consider quiet heating and cooling equipment. I think it was 2013 or 2014 Casita bought Coleman Mach 8 AC units and started installing them on new trailers. To say the least, new owners were not impressed. One post described the AC unit as "embarrassingly loud" outside and terribly loud inside. The furor over this Coleman piece of junk resulted in a retrofit kit being developed by Orbital Machine Works that many Casita owners and other Mach 8 owners have installed to drastically reduce the noise.
Have any Escape owners quantified from the noise from the AC and heater using a decibel meter? Hopefully Escape is not using a Mach 8. Maybe some ex Casita owners could offer their impression of the noise level comparison between the pre 2012 Casita and their new Escape.

When I did my mini-split A/C mod Bob (Padlin) offered some numbers on the Dometic A/C from his 5.0TA. Not scientific, but order of magnitude. 65db on low and 68/70ish on high.
www.escapeforum.org/forums/f8/custom-air-conditioning-retrofit-8249-5.html#post152062

Regarding the heater, I don't have a noise level but I can say that the Atwood Everest Star that Escape used to use is much quieter than the Suburban NT-12S (now discontinued) or NT-16S that Scamp uses. I can't speak to the new heater model that Escape now uses.

[Kountrykamper]

The Dometic A/C in our Escape is a little quieter than our 2006 Casita with the Coleman to us. Both are noisy to me but they are right on top of your head. I have not used a db meter just my ears.

[steve dunham]

We have a 2013 Casita with the factory furnace & A/C . I have never heard the loud noises that others describe / complain about .
My main concern is if the furnace keeps me warm when it's cold and the A/C keeps me cool when it's hot.
Anything beyond that criteria is not an issue for us.

[nathanj04011]

Our 2007 Casita's AC was awfully loud. It was either low loud our high loud. Our Escape I think is much quieter on low, and quieter on high.

However, we did get a complaint from a camper next to us last summer, asking we not run our A/C at night the next night, as it kept him and his family awake in their hybrid camper. So I guess if you were to ask him, he'd say the Escape AC is intolerably loud.

I won't even start a debate on whether campers without AC's should hold everyone to the same standard of camping that they do or do not have. Especially when it is in a private campground where there were sites in the popup section where only a few popups had AC, instead of smack dab in the center of a bunch of AC-loving folks. No, I wont start that debate!

[Loren & Cathy]

I will admit that the air conditioner can be a little noisy but then there a few advantages of being deaf in one ear and not being able to hear out of the other. Loren