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I was playing with the AC and a temperature probe today, and I'm seeing the same thing that I saw on my old short bus. When the sun is shining, it really kills the AC performance. It's in the upper 70's when the sun is out, but quickly drops to the mid-to-low 60's when it's cloudy. The things are little greenhouses.

Before someone suggests that it's the sides or the roof or anything else; it's the windows. It's always the windows.

I solved this problem on my old bus by covering the windows (tin foil and masking tape), but we actually need to see out of the THSCC bus windows.

I'm planning on blocking some of them off using a thin radiant barrier material, but that's opaque. I also ordered a roll of the spectrum-specific film that I use on my minivan and will be using that on the windows that we still need to see through.

So the question is what can I block and what do you need to see out of? Anything that I do block off will be secured with tape, so it won't hard to unblock it if you need to. The exception is the windshield and driver's side window, which will have folding screens because I'll assume that those will need to be unblocked, unless Rob Lupella is the Zatoichi of bus drivers, in which case I can tape those as well.

Sitting in the middle of the bus in the office chair, it looks like I can't see anything significant out of the following:

front windshield (too low)
driver side window
passenger door windows
rear door windows
little window forward of passenger door
handicapped access door windows
rear windows behind file cabinets
side window behind file cabinets
Side windows below desk and behind rear passenger seat.


That leaves most of three side windows on the driver side and two side windows on the non-driver side. Is that what people on the inside of the bus primarily need to see out of? And do you need to see out of both sides at an event?

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