Air Conditioner Performance
RV novice here. So please forgive any stupid questions. This may be one. How well should the air conditioners perform during our high heat and humidity here is south Texas?? Yesterday had both uni...
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bsheet2 wrote:time2roll wrote:bsheet2 wrote:I would never shut it off in TX heat. Let it cycle overnight and as the sun comes up it will run continuous all day.
Actually the AC did better today. I started everything early in the morning and we minimized going in and out. It stayed decent in the heat of the afternoon.
Running on the genny. Don't have a 30 amp to plug in to. Prefer not to run the genny all night.
While on the subject of running on the genny it is common in hot weather that the dash air will not keep you cool enough on the highway so you leave the roof units enabled then when you get too hot you start the generator and they come on. Have you tried this yet? On my coach if I left both enabled they would both try to start at the same time and kill the generator. You might want to know in advance if you are going to have that issue.
I ended up putting an extra start capacitor on one AC and a Micro Air easy start on the other. That may have been overkill but now the generator starts both without issues.
This issue taught me a lot about the circuits in the RV. At various times when both AC's were left on I tripped the breaker on the generator, one or both of the breakers in the breaker box and I think the breaker on the inverter charger. Other than having to stop and troubleshoot no real harm was done.
