Help I'm melting....
I have a 2012 Jayco Seneca... and I'm sweating to death. For some reason my two compressors keep kicking OFF when we run the generator and run down the road. The fans stay on but the cooling shuts ...
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Ok return trip back home today.
Powered up the same. A/c's this time on fan HIGH, ON and not AUTO, and set to 68 degrees on the front unit and 65 at the rear(it is about 96 degrees outside today so this is probably un-reachable as a temperature setting).
A/c's worked fine for another 2 hours and then they quit cooling, both units' fans kept going and the cooling never came back on.
I let it run and went down the road to see if it would cycle back on itself. It never did in the 20 minutes or so I let it go.
I pulled over and turned the t-stats off and to auto and let them sit 3-5 minutes. I then put them back on, 1 at a time, to the same temps and to high and ON (not auto). I opened the filter area and they are both clean as can be. I took a flashlight and checked the coil from inside the intake side (looking up through the return/ filter area and there was no ice or frost on that part of the fins.
The units came back on when switched back on and they were cooling. Drove on about 5-10 minutes and back to fan only, no cool on both units.
Drove another 30-40 minutes to the house. I again let the units run to see if they would cycle back on to begin cooling and nothing happened, just the fans blasting room temp (85 degree) air.
I finally cut the units off. I waited again 5 minutes and put them back on and they are cooling. I put the t-stats up to about 75 degrees. The rear unit has cycled on and off like normal since it has reached 75 and then it heated up and then kicked back on to cool and shut off again (normal a/c operating in my opinion).
The front unit is cooling but it hasn't reached the 76 degree mark but that is about right because it cools a much larger area given it's location and the use of the doors. It is blowing cold air.
I am clearly baffled and SUPER irritated. I have 5 people riding in a 40 foot motorhome that all have to sit within 6' of the windsheild in order to not suffocate. I might as well have a travel trailer at this point. I will probably bring the MH to the dealer but without them driving it around for 2-3 hours in the heat I don't see how they will re-create it and I am really tired of footing the bill for the diesel while people "test" this thing. IMO Jayco owes me about $900 for fuel and time when it comes to this thing.
If I had a few days I'd drive this thing up to Indiana and meet face to face with some exec's at Jayco and explain my dissappointment in their product. I'm not that picky of a person and I understand the limits of human beings when it comes to fit and finish but the issues that I have had are more than just some mouldings coming loose or a bad cabinet hinge.
The driveshaft issue was a huge ordeal in the beginning that cost me 4-5 trips to Freightliner and to CW and probably 1500 miles and $600 in fuel. Had a roof leak that leaked enough to damage the moulding on the ceiling between the bunk and the box and ruined almost 80% of the laminate wood flooring (warped the boards). Now I have the a/c unit issue, and a slideout that I guess grabs the flooring and almost ripped the pantry abinet off the countertop and the base cabinet (yeah, it wasn't pretty and still isn't) and serious alignment issues.
Powered up the same. A/c's this time on fan HIGH, ON and not AUTO, and set to 68 degrees on the front unit and 65 at the rear(it is about 96 degrees outside today so this is probably un-reachable as a temperature setting).
A/c's worked fine for another 2 hours and then they quit cooling, both units' fans kept going and the cooling never came back on.
I let it run and went down the road to see if it would cycle back on itself. It never did in the 20 minutes or so I let it go.
I pulled over and turned the t-stats off and to auto and let them sit 3-5 minutes. I then put them back on, 1 at a time, to the same temps and to high and ON (not auto). I opened the filter area and they are both clean as can be. I took a flashlight and checked the coil from inside the intake side (looking up through the return/ filter area and there was no ice or frost on that part of the fins.
The units came back on when switched back on and they were cooling. Drove on about 5-10 minutes and back to fan only, no cool on both units.
Drove another 30-40 minutes to the house. I again let the units run to see if they would cycle back on to begin cooling and nothing happened, just the fans blasting room temp (85 degree) air.
I finally cut the units off. I waited again 5 minutes and put them back on and they are cooling. I put the t-stats up to about 75 degrees. The rear unit has cycled on and off like normal since it has reached 75 and then it heated up and then kicked back on to cool and shut off again (normal a/c operating in my opinion).
The front unit is cooling but it hasn't reached the 76 degree mark but that is about right because it cools a much larger area given it's location and the use of the doors. It is blowing cold air.
I am clearly baffled and SUPER irritated. I have 5 people riding in a 40 foot motorhome that all have to sit within 6' of the windsheild in order to not suffocate. I might as well have a travel trailer at this point. I will probably bring the MH to the dealer but without them driving it around for 2-3 hours in the heat I don't see how they will re-create it and I am really tired of footing the bill for the diesel while people "test" this thing. IMO Jayco owes me about $900 for fuel and time when it comes to this thing.
If I had a few days I'd drive this thing up to Indiana and meet face to face with some exec's at Jayco and explain my dissappointment in their product. I'm not that picky of a person and I understand the limits of human beings when it comes to fit and finish but the issues that I have had are more than just some mouldings coming loose or a bad cabinet hinge.
The driveshaft issue was a huge ordeal in the beginning that cost me 4-5 trips to Freightliner and to CW and probably 1500 miles and $600 in fuel. Had a roof leak that leaked enough to damage the moulding on the ceiling between the bunk and the box and ruined almost 80% of the laminate wood flooring (warped the boards). Now I have the a/c unit issue, and a slideout that I guess grabs the flooring and almost ripped the pantry abinet off the countertop and the base cabinet (yeah, it wasn't pretty and still isn't) and serious alignment issues.
