Carrier Air V A/C replacement

If you were closer, I could make you a deal. I have a 15k Carrier 5 sitting in storage. Not interested in shipping. Sorry
Dave

Take a look at THIS

I did see that conversion kit mentioned in a post from many years ago but it uses the control box from the carrier unit. And I'm reluctant to use an electrical part from a 13 year old unit.

It would be an easy fix though.
I guess for the cost it could be used until the control box gave out.

One of ours was switched out for a Dometic unit. The Dometic wall electronic thermostat also controls the furnace and heat pump.

This fall I replaced my Carrier Air V with a Dometic unit. Camping World did the job (at the time most A/Cs were on sale). As indicated in the previous post, the Dometic has a wall thermostat which also controls the furnace.

sch911 & DouglasC,
Did you have an existing wall thermostat before the AC unit was replaced?

golfknut wrote:
sch911 & DouglasC,
Did you have an existing wall thermostat before the AC unit was replaced?

No. The Carrier had a remote battery operated control unit. Had to buy the new wall mounted thermostat for the new Dometic A/C. Camping World installed them both.

So fishing the wiring through the ceiling and down the wall to the new thermostat location was not a big deal for them?
And not an expensive project?

We have a wall-mounted thermostat controlling furnace only, and I believe it has only two-wire control cable. I'm considering controlling the temperature of our non-ducted Coleman Mach (two knobs on the ceiling assembly) with a relay, and I'd need to run more wire and in the opposite direction than what's there. I believe I would run it surface mounted. This is one example of a conduit/molding to let you do that.

I might be able to get wire into the wall and up toward the ceiling, but the ceiling itself is "structural foam" so there's no void to run wire in. I might find a passage with OEM 120-VAC power to the A/C, but I'd guess at least the wall-to-A/C unit thermostat wiring would have to be across the ceiling surface.

golfknut wrote:
So fishing the wiring through the ceiling and down the wall to the new thermostat location was not a big deal for them?
And not an expensive project?

Well - - it may have been somewhat of a "big deal". Camping World charged me 1.65 hours of labor ($212.85) to install and wire the thermostat (which itself cost $58.99).