I have a Hitachi 150-3, and I would like to see if its possible to add an ac unit. it has a good heater, but no ac
Try Red Dot. Here is their site. They build rugged units for construction equipment. http://www.rdac.com/
There is even a model with hydraulic drive compressor if there's no room on the engine. Pretty common dealer job. I put a Red Dot in a dump truck and it works very well although temperature control is never as nice as with a factory unit.
Reddots are good units for retrofit. A good friend of mine installed one in a L9000 back in the '90's. Still today it's one of the coldest A/C's in any of his trucks. Just so happens that L9000 was the first heavy truck I ever drove.
We've added AC to quite a few of them. Here in the desert, if its got a cab, it WILL have AC.
The picture that popped into my mind was a 110 window unit duct taped into the window behind the operators head.
Hear you go
That's exactly the sort of thing that I had pictured. I'm sure it has been done on a piece of equipment somewhere around the world. Thanks for the laugh!!
Yep, spotted a Cat with a window AC unit doing a demolition job in my area DIRTROAD.
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