A/C locking up in 1984 class c
I recently inherited a 1984 Kingston Midas camper, My great-grandparents were the previous owners and they take such good care of everything that the majority of the vehicle is effectively brand new. ...
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PlatinumSky wrote:dedmiston wrote:PlatinumSky wrote:
My buddy let me borrow his multimeter, it's holding a pretty stead 114.4 at the compressor. Oddly enough, hasn't tripped again even with the cover on and it's been running since I posted yesterday.
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Victory dance time, found the problems and it came in three flavors. 1) To begin with the first place I had it plugged in was by the shed at a relatives house, turns out their wiring is old from the 60's and someone just mounted a 30 amp outlet to the regular 15 amp wiring, was causing lots of voltage drop and luckily didn't start a fire. 2) turns out the generator also had a bad brush, and was making enough power for the fridge and phone chargers it wasn't quite reaching above 95v. And 3) the connection to common on the compressor went to another terminal under the shroud (? Not sure of terminology, the sheet metal enclosure underneath the outermost cover on top). This terminal was caked with a bright green powder I instantly recognized as heavily oxidized copper and practically fell off the spade connector when I touched it, I can only assume the cover was shifting the wires just enough to cause an intermittent connection at this point. In the meantime while it's working now I have it plugged directly into a higher amp outlet that was properly installed directly on the house, The new terminal I soldered in place is preventing any intermittent connection issues, and I had a brush that I borrowed from an old jet alternator a buddy got surplus that fits where the old one went after sanding the graphite to size. Still planning on eventually upgrading but happy it's at least working now. Thanks for all the help and suggestions everyone, only discovered the intermittent connection problem and I bumped the wires while checking the common terminal with the multimeter.
Congratulations ! You sound like the perfect person to inherit this old girl. You have the knowledge, patients, and time to keep it working. Please stick around on this board, help other people, and post about your adventures.
