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HDD magnets are a great idea -- strongest magnets I have laying around too...
With your design, have you looked at the airflow for the condenser? I believe the front of the unit (on the outside) is the outgoing hot-air flow from the condensing coil. ...
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Not yet, I don't want to turn on the $AC$ until I have too. Hrrmmmmmmm, now I wonder if the venting heat will melt the coroplast. Doubtfull, but maybe I need to turn it on under test/monitoring conditions.
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... If you a fresh-air inlet, I think the fins on the side pull that in (optional and not the most efficient setting).
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I always set the fresh air inlet to draw air from the inside because it will only be on when it is hotter outside. That would be easy to test, however.
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Have you checked for the warm air flow by the front panel? Otherwise, the shade would help. I think one of the links earlier showed a spray with red dye for for unit's stand-alone unit's exhaust fan (the amount of air flow is considerable -- it nearly reached the top of the test home.
I thought about some sort of shading as well, but I'm afraid of choking the flow. It would have to be a tall, awkward looking fence -- but that unit sure bakes (near the Southwest corner with no shade protection). Hopefully the mist is doing something other than scaling the living daylights out of it! 
RH77
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I think (not at home right now) my unit is an 18,000 BTU (1.5 ton) AC unit, so I don't think the flow will be toooooo great. I may increase the space of the vertical panel (see how it angles down and in), but I did the vertical panel last and was a bit more lazy towards the end of the setup.
Ha ha, I just realized I *could* go techno-designer insane if I wanted to. The Coroplast comes with "channels" that could be circulating water. I'll bet it would get dirty/clogged in no time, however.
CarloSW2