Roof Air Condensation Mess

[brown774]

When running roof air, the condensation drains onto the roof and disperses over the sides of the coach in several areas. It makes a streaking mess on the painted sides of the coach (2007 Monaco Diplomat). Is there a method of concentrating this water to a main drain? The water catches on the slide toppers so when retracted you get splashed.

[wolfe10]

Slightly lean your coach to the side and on some, the end you prefer for the condensate to exit on.

On ours, we lean it with the left side down so that condensation does not drip at the entrance door.

[tbutler]

Our '04 Monaco has a collection system consisting of a pair of plastic drip pans below the condensate outlets from each of the Duo-Therm air conditioners. These are connected to a factory installed tubing system within the ceiling. These tubes eventually make their way down to the bottom of the coach, one at the front and the other at the rear of the coach. From time to time they need cleaning as they clog with algae but flushing usually resolves this without too much difficulty.

I assumed that all Monaco's had this feature. If your coach does not, I don't think it would be feasible to install one, at least not in the ceiling as ours is. You might check your air conditioners to see if there is any such system installed on your coach. If there is, a good cleaning of the tubing could solve your problem. The tubing of our system is visible from within the coach when the filter is removed. Ours is clear plastic tubing of approximately 5/8" internal diameter and I can see both tubes coming down from the drip pans they are connected by a cross tube which then continues on into the ceiling as a single tube to the drain.

[BillAdams]

If you don't find anything like Tom describes, there are also after market rain gutters that you can install on the edge of the roof to move the water or even create a channel from the A/C output to where ever you would like the water to go. Sort of like this:

http://www.trimlok.com/prod/Drip-Rail/Plastic-Profiles/All-Product-Categories_141/Drip-Rail_67.aspx