About a year and a half ago or so my rear A/C unit quit working. I didn't worry about it too much because I had the front unit and I have a ducted system so I only really need the two units if the outside temps start approaching 100. So over the last year and a half I've removed the lower panels and upper cover and shook some wires and made sure the fan blades were free and the unit still didn't work. I figured at some point I'd take it to the shop and get it fixed.Over the last weekend we took the motorhome out and it was HOT!. The front unit was not cooling the motorhome enough so I figured I'd look at the rear unit again. I pulled the bottom panel off and unplugged and plugged back in the wires and still nothing. Then I got to wondering if I ever checked the breaker. Of course I must have checked it, that would be the first thing any RV owner would check when something electrical goes out. So I figured I'd check it again just in case. Sure enough it was popped. Reset it and the A/C fired right up. Duh!

msmith1199 wrote:About a year and a half ago or so my rear A/C unit quit working. I didn't worry about it too much because I had the front unit and I have a ducted system so I only really need the two units if the outside temps start approaching 100. So over the last year and a half I've removed the lower panels and upper cover and shook some wires and made sure the fan blades were free and the unit still didn't work. I figured at some point I'd take it to the shop and get it fixed.Over the last weekend we took the motorhome out and it was HOT!. The front unit was not cooling the motorhome enough so I figured I'd look at the rear unit again. I pulled the bottom panel off and unplugged and plugged back in the wires and still nothing. Then I got to wondering if I ever checked the breaker. Of course I must have checked it, that would be the first thing any RV owner would check when something electrical goes out. So I figured I'd check it again just in case. Sure enough it was popped. Reset it and the A/C fired right up. Duh!It may have popped for a reason, or maybe it was shut off and they restarted right away, when that is done it draws a LOT of current to over come the pressure in the system.Good luck!

I think we have all done something like that. Many years ago, in the days of transparencies and overhead projectors, I was setting the projector up at the start of a Ham Radio class I was teaching. It was early on in the course and the subject was very basic circuits.I was setting the projector up at the start of a class using an extension cord since the projectors cord was about a foot too short. When I plugged the two (I thought) together the projector failed to light up. After some head scratching and checking the bulb one of the students gleefully held up the plug end of the projector cord, not attached to anything. I had plugged the 30 foot extension cord into itself. :S

Or someone might pump a couple extra gallons of antifreeze through the system before realizing the outside shower is open. Might happen to somebody...a friend of mine..probably...

Or slide the bed in on the pop-up with an ice chest filled with water from 20 pounds of ice sitting on the counter. That was fun to clean up!

These "error" lists can get long......New rig and I keep leaving the AC unit(s) on when switching from shore to gen power or vice versa. Manual says not to. Every time, 12v fan keeps working but it gets warmer by the second. I finally realize what is happening. Kind of a long "senior moment."

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anconn
Explorer
Jul 12, 2014
We're all the same!!
msmith1199
Explorer II
Jul 12, 2014
I almost did a second dumb move of the week when I set up at the RV park in Pismo last week. There was a steel pole by the electrical pedestal. I checked and saw that my living room slide would go right over the top of the pole with a good six inches of clearance. So I went inside and opened the slide with no problem. I went outside and saw that I forgot that the slide rails extend down below the slide and there is a large fiberglass piece attached to them to cover the end. That fiberglass piece missed the steel post by no more than a sixteenth of an inch at the most. I would have smashed it to pieces if it weren't for that 16th of an inch.
cochise49
Explorer
Jul 12, 2014
These "error" lists can get long......New rig and I keep leaving the AC unit(s) on when switching from shore to gen power or vice versa. Manual says not to. Every time, 12v fan keeps working but it gets warmer by the second. I finally realize what is happening. Kind of a long "senior moment."
jjjandrbaker
Explorer
Jul 12, 2014
Or slide the bed in on the pop-up with an ice chest filled with water from 20 pounds of ice sitting on the counter. That was fun to clean up!
brirene
Explorer
Jul 12, 2014
Or someone might pump a couple extra gallons of antifreeze through the system before realizing the outside shower is open. Might happen to somebody...a friend of mine..probably...
Canadian_Rainbi
Explorer
Jul 12, 2014
I think we have all done something like that. Many years ago, in the days of transparencies and overhead projectors, I was setting the projector up at the start of a Ham Radio class I was teaching. It was early on in the course and the subject was very basic circuits.

I was setting the projector up at the start of a class using an extension cord since the projectors cord was about a foot too short.

When I plugged the two (I thought) together the projector failed to light up. After some head scratching and checking the bulb one of the students gleefully held up the plug end of the projector cord, not attached to anything. I had plugged the 30 foot extension cord into itself. :S
GlennLever
Explorer
Jul 12, 2014
msmith1199 wrote:
About a year and a half ago or so my rear A/C unit quit working. I didn't worry about it too much because I had the front unit and I have a ducted system so I only really need the two units if the outside temps start approaching 100. So over the last year and a half I've removed the lower panels and upper cover and shook some wires and made sure the fan blades were free and the unit still didn't work. I figured at some point I'd take it to the shop and get it fixed.

Over the last weekend we took the motorhome out and it was HOT!. The front unit was not cooling the motorhome enough so I figured I'd look at the rear unit again. I pulled the bottom panel off and unplugged and plugged back in the wires and still nothing. Then I got to wondering if I ever checked the breaker. Of course I must have checked it, that would be the first thing any RV owner would check when something electrical goes out. So I figured I'd check it again just in case. Sure enough it was popped. Reset it and the A/C fired right up. Duh!

It may have popped for a reason, or maybe it was shut off and they restarted right away, when that is done it draws a LOT of current to over come the pressure in the system.

Good luck!

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