A/C help needed. Coleman mach 8 .. Quartzsite
I was away and got a text that the a/c was no longer working. I came home to the RV about an hour or more later. The two interior fan speeds work. When i switched to a/c, I think I heard the compres...
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groundhogy wrote:
Yes, the mach 15 fan is quiet , but also the compressor sound is quiet.
You listen for the compressor sound when you want to see if it’s actually on.
The tech was not approving of dometic penguins (their low profile offering?). He said he has a small pile of them at his home base that are broken and he said like 3 years old.
The newer style Penguins that had 410, Airstream had a problem caused by installers at Airstream. They were bolted from the top down and when they manhandled the Penguins on top to mount(they had to remove the top shrouds), they were pushing the Copper lines against each other and the normal vibration of running caused the line to rupture and leak coolant. Dometic replaced hundreds if not thousands of those Penguins on Airstreams for a few years until Dometic found out what was happening. Dometic then installed rubber bushings around the copper lines at areas that could be pushed to prevent this. Also, the original Penguins that had 410, the compressors run at higher PSI due to 410 and the first compressors had a high failure rate, which Dometic replaced the design of the compressor's once they realized that problem. The Penguins built in the past 2 or 3 years, are just as reliable as ever. Doug
PS, the original Mach 15 also had a high failure rate due to the design of the separate Condenser fan system. The motor mount bolts would break off and the fan would fall over and sometimes shear the regular condenser. This is the reason they redesigned that system and it is quieter now.
