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Originally Posted by freebeard
That's a window onto a plateful of problems I didn't know you had. 
The local VW swaps are on 1 June and 16 June. My favorite, times past, was the Porsche-VW swap in Amity, OR. I missed the last one last year. That's where i saw the Porsche 4-cam engine on a stand and the 1954 Type II riight-hand drive 23-window bus in showroom new condition (it was there 2 years). No 23-window bus you've ever seen, restored or no, prepares you for the upholstery those had from the factory. The proprietor, Gary Emory has progressed from Outlaw 356s to flat-head Ford 4-bangers. 
The only Summer-zing I have left to do is mosquito netting, but I have a month or so to get to it.
What I'd like to do is lay a rectangular pipe frame 4x24' on the roof of the trailer and fill it with 2-3" of foam insulation. Then pile blackened scrap metal on that and cover it all with corrugated greenhouse glazing. Fan[s] in the roof vents, run at night in the summer and during the day in the winter. |
So in the summer you'd be killing radiant heat through the ceiling and provide convection/chimney air circulation during day,and radiative cooling at night,bringing cooled air down?
Then in winter,active solar heating during daytime,while insulating the ceiling against heat loss at night?
Would the 'array' tilt up towards the winter sun if parked in an E-W orientation?