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Okay, pardon the attention-grabbing thread title, you'll see below why I said that... 
So, many of you who have considered adding A/C to your conversion have run into the same thing as me:
A) compressor driven off motor: has problem you can't run it when not driving, which is a problem if you want a "remote cool" feature to get your car cooled down before you leave work for the drive home.
B) driven off dedicated motor: these seem to push your range down the most, according to hivemind knowledge I've gathered reading posts.
C) the so-interesting-I-laughed-when-I-saw-it-first-then-finally-read-about-it idea about using an actual box full of ice which pumps melted ice-water through a grill and blows air over it. Check it out here.
Idea C is great cause it's simple, super-cheap, and easy. Of course the problems it has is 1) you have to fill the box every morning with ice from your freezer and 2) the ice melts during the day.
Well, I have an idea to fix #1, but I'm not sure it's physically possible.
What if when you plug in your car to charge overnight, you actually create ice overnight so that it's automatically in the box the next morning without transferring it from your freezer? At first I thought about putting a quick-connect water line to the car every night, but that's a pain. Then I wondered, can you get enough water to condense out of the air and then freeze it? This might not work if you live in AZ, but most places there is actually a lot of water in the air. Is there a way to force it to condense, and then freeze it? Then it would require no water line, and would happen automatically from the power from your charger.
For those that can charge while at work, this also fixes problem #2 in that when you come back to your car to drive home, the ice is still frozen. And for those that can't charge at work, it might be possible that the ice is still there. I know we have a cooler for camping that can supposedly keep ice for 6 days at 80F as long as you don't open it. So if you build it in a high-quality cooler with a mostly-closed system, it is reasonable that it would still be frozen 8 hours later.
Thoughts?
So, many of you who have considered adding A/C to your conversion have run into the same thing as me:
A) compressor driven off motor: has problem you can't run it when not driving, which is a problem if you want a "remote cool" feature to get your car cooled down before you leave work for the drive home.
B) driven off dedicated motor: these seem to push your range down the most, according to hivemind knowledge I've gathered reading posts.
C) the so-interesting-I-laughed-when-I-saw-it-first-then-finally-read-about-it idea about using an actual box full of ice which pumps melted ice-water through a grill and blows air over it. Check it out here.
Idea C is great cause it's simple, super-cheap, and easy. Of course the problems it has is 1) you have to fill the box every morning with ice from your freezer and 2) the ice melts during the day.
Well, I have an idea to fix #1, but I'm not sure it's physically possible.
What if when you plug in your car to charge overnight, you actually create ice overnight so that it's automatically in the box the next morning without transferring it from your freezer? At first I thought about putting a quick-connect water line to the car every night, but that's a pain. Then I wondered, can you get enough water to condense out of the air and then freeze it? This might not work if you live in AZ, but most places there is actually a lot of water in the air. Is there a way to force it to condense, and then freeze it? Then it would require no water line, and would happen automatically from the power from your charger.
For those that can charge while at work, this also fixes problem #2 in that when you come back to your car to drive home, the ice is still frozen. And for those that can't charge at work, it might be possible that the ice is still there. I know we have a cooler for camping that can supposedly keep ice for 6 days at 80F as long as you don't open it. So if you build it in a high-quality cooler with a mostly-closed system, it is reasonable that it would still be frozen 8 hours later.
Thoughts?