American Coach, how the heck does this AC system work?

Mile High wrote:

Mr.Mark wrote:
Mile High, well, you are right about the 100 amp. But, it all DEPENDS on what Freightguy is running along with his air conditioners.

We could not run the dryer with the bedroom air on.

And, running 50 amps on each leg is really pushing it.

Safe travels,
MM.

I would think his 2009 has some type of power management system to prevent that. I can easily monitor how many amps are being used on each leg, and it will automatically shed loads through the power management system to avoid any kind of overload. I have never had anything shed on 50A RV service, but I have while on generator, and the dryer is right after the hot water tank.

Mr.Mark wrote:
Mile High, well, you are right about the 100 amp. But, it all DEPENDS on what Freightguy is running along with his air conditioners.

We could not run the dryer with the bedroom air on.

And, running 50 amps on each leg is really pushing it.

Safe travels,
MM.

crasster wrote:
I'm with the others on power. 15000 btu's draw nearly 15 amps. That would be 45 out of a 50 amp connection. Any weakness, any ghost feeds (such as a converter charging batts) and POP, there goes the breaker.

You may need to to get one of those over to another breaker outlet on the campsite if possible. Often there is a 30 and 50 amp leg. Get it to the 30 while the coach is on the 50 (if it can handle it).

Freightguy wrote:
I have a 2009 American Tradition. I cannot for the life of me figure out how this cooling system works. I have 3 AC's with 3 zones. Zone 3 seems to work fine. Zone 1 & 2 are very confusing.

I am assuming zone 1 controls the AC unit closest to the cockpit, Zone 2 control the middle AC unit and zone 3 controls the rear unit.

With all 3 zones on cool, the AC's on zone 1 & 2 will turn on and off as I think they should but sometimes one of them will try to start and them it see,s to fail almost like the start capacitor is bad, but the next time it may start fine and run for how ever long it takes to cool the coach, then it may shut down and the fan will come on for about 5 seconds at full speed and then its shuts down completely. Both the front and middle AC units are doing this. I had a hard time telling which one was doing it as they are close together, so I just shut zone 2 off and left zone 1 and zone 3 on cool. I went on the roof and both the front and middle AC's are running.

These are coleman mach 8 AC with an Atwood thermostat. Any insight is appreciated.