Don't understand my air conditioner
I have a 2016 Forest River Rockwood 5th wheel with a Coleman Mach air conditioner in the kitchen/living area. I've seen intermittent operation that concerns me. The other day we returned from dry camp...
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2012Coleman wrote:OP wrote:Maybe I'm misinformed, but I thought that you could not run the AC on household current. I'm not an expert in electricity, but I'm guessing CW plugged into a 30 amp plug. I just had one wired for me at the new house. It's nice having a cool TT to load/unload/do repairs on.
When we returned home, we parked the RV in the driveway and hooked it up to 110 vac, 15 amp service using the 50 amp cable and a couple pig tails to get it to the right connector to plug in the outlet.
The A/C will run just fine on household current.
However, a 15amp household circuit is pushing the limits. It needs to be a dedicated GFCI outlet with nothing else on the circuit. Most RV A/C's pull 13.5 to 14.5 amps to start the compressor. Whenever the RV is plugged in, you lost 0.5 to 1.5 amps of available power to things like the converter/battery charger. One should turn off the fridge and all the breakers in the rig except the A/C if you want to run the A/C on a 15 amp household circuit.
A household 15amp circuit in the garage or outside can be overloaded if a RV is plugged in and another electrical device is used on the same circuit.
I would only plug my RV into a 20amp single outlet circuit I had in my garage back when we had a house.
