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rvriggs:
Title kind of gives it all away..........

Taking suggestions, tips, tricks, new ideas on keeping the coach cool while baking in the Arizona SUN...while stopping through on a visit....

Thanks
RVRiggs

jaspers mom:
Hello, can I add to this question?  If so, here is my addition.  If I have my windows open for ventilation and the night shades pulled down would this be an asset or detriment. 

Karl:
Jaspers Mom,
No, you can't!!!! ;D

Seriously 'though, detriment to what? Night shades keep out light, but if they block the air flow, they won't do any good. Assuming the outside temperature/humidity is lower than inside, ventilation from the outside will help. If it's hot and humid outside (more so than inside), it probably won't help except for the feeling of air movement over your body. Six of one; half a dozen of the other.
That was a trick question, right?

jaspers mom:
Trick Question Carl, 

No.  being easy to pass out or have seizures high humdity and heat as an additional factor.  I was serious.  Lets not deflect from the original question as it was indeed a good one.  I will back off and search further with my questionable question.  My apologies to the original writer.

John From Detroit:
There are basically 3 ways to cool a coach

1: Power cooling (Air Conditioning)
2: Shade
3: Ventelation (NOTE 1 and 3 confilct in many cases)

Now, Southern engineering says you build nice THICK stone walls that soak up the heat in the day (keeping it from the house) and release it at night (Keepin said house warm cause nights get COLD in the dessert)  However you are not in a built in place house,,,, You are in a RV, much thinner (But insulated, one hopes) walls.

So, it's either AC or Ventelation during the day, heat at night and SHADE if you can arrange it.  Shade can be natural or artifical

Best shade: An array of SOLAR panels (Hooked to an inverter, powering the AC of course)

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