Rooftop AC Tripping Breaker... Sometimes
I have a 2001 Monaco Knight with 2 Dometic Duo-Therm AC units. The Rear air works fine and the front has started tripping the breaker. I have cleaned both sets of coils, replaced both capacitors, r...
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I fear ultimately Doug is going to be correct , bad compressor .
Before condemning it though I would give the condenser coils
on the roof a through cleaning again . Stuff can get imbedded and some
areas are hard to get at .
Also some A/Cs have a foam rubber strip under the plastic cover
that helps keep the air flowing through the coils , it needs to be
in place or some air can bypass the coils .
Do you know what the park voltage is ? Low voltage can cause problems .
This time of the year everyone is running their A/Cs full blast which
causes low voltage through out the park or probably the entire area .
Ray
Before condemning it though I would give the condenser coils
on the roof a through cleaning again . Stuff can get imbedded and some
areas are hard to get at .
Also some A/Cs have a foam rubber strip under the plastic cover
that helps keep the air flowing through the coils , it needs to be
in place or some air can bypass the coils .
Do you know what the park voltage is ? Low voltage can cause problems .
This time of the year everyone is running their A/Cs full blast which
causes low voltage through out the park or probably the entire area .
Ray
