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mileshuff
Explorer
Jul 04, 2018

A/C breaker trips whenever ambient temp is high?

The A/C on my 5'er will trip it's breaker whenever ambient outside temp is high, 95F+. It will run only 10 minutes or so before tripping. If outside temp is lower than that it will run without issue...
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dougrainer
Nomad
Jul 04, 2018
Chris Bryant wrote:
Clean the coils, inside and out. I can usually get at least a one amp drop by cleaning the outside coils, often two or three amps.


Chris, he is pulling in excess of 21 amps which caused the breaker to trip. IF cleaning would drop lets be generous 4 amps, that still puts the amp load at 17 amps at 95. STILL 3 amps too high. As I stated, there is no Magic fix and cleaning the coils while should be done will not fix this problem. Doug

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