AC doesn't keep up with heat
Not sure if I have an issue or not, but my AC can't get ahead of the heat. We arrived in Fairmont Hot Springs RV Resort in BC this morning, set up and turned on the AC. It has been running non sto...
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pianotuna wrote:
Bob,
I suspect the duct work may be "leaking" cold air into the roof (assuming it is a ducted unit).
If you have a generator--perhaps run it for the last two hours of any road trip to pre-cool the trailer?
I'll second the possibility of leaking duct work. Main or rear heat pump fan, worked itself loose from shaft and ground into the pan on the roof. This was at a rally in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Coleman was there and repaired it for us and inspected the duct work and found a lot of big gaps in the aluminized fiberglass material at the intake and output vents that formed the duct work, from the factory. Cold air was being produced and then immediately reentered the intake and also the roof area though the gaps as were the output vents.. cooled a lot lot better after that. 2010 I think.
If you have 48 degrees chilled air coming out and the duct work sound, then the capacity, the amount of air it cools is not near enough.
A higher capacity and or a second unit seems to be in order.
I have read a number of post over the year about the shoddy put together duct work problems in more than one brand. I never investigated but wonder if there are other gaps directing the cold air into the roof area and not into the room, like was happening at he intake and the output vents.