air conditioner without and with autoformer

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
"The best bang for the Buck are autoformers from Mexico"

Are you talking a cheap knock off Made In Mexico? "AutoFormers" are top quality and Made in USA.

I'm sort of familiar with this stuff

And Mexican made power and control electrical devices are heavy brute strength designed and made. From copper wire, to genuine transformers, not featherweight Chinese junk, and from mine to market, things like autoformers, and voltage correction devices, Mexican stuff is very similar to USA devices of the 1950's.

95% of MADE IN USA devices are 95% Made in Mexico. NAFTA is a tax dodge. Mexicans, in fact, sneer at foreign electrical power stuff if a Mexican competitor is available.

I'm not talking about consumer MABE appliances but genuine power management stuff. Autoformers and voltage correction devices.

Go outside and stare at the transformer hanging on your power pole. Made in Mexico.

Siemens has gigantic electric motor plants here. There isn't "measure to the nanogram" power terminal soldering, or hair-thin wires carrying ten amperes like Guangdong garbage.

I'm more than fussy. When I need a power switch, it'll be a MIL-SPEC device. I don't know the source of COMMERCIAL switches in Mexican power devices but they don't fail.

Jesus has a seventeen-year-old power correction device that is loaded ten hours a day. Fourteen amperes air conditioner driven by a 2,000 watt rated power conditioner. Made in Monterrey, Mexico. The thing uses a spec grade single outlet. And the power cord doesn't look like laundry line. It is round three conductor and is neoprene not Mattel plastic.

Yep, there is a ton of snot made down here but transformers and brute power circuit boards are not among that list.

Yep David ... what you're saying about the how and the way of stuff made in Mexico is called "overkill".

Wanting to go the overkill route is exactly why we bought an RV built on an E450 chassis under the coach that really only required an E350 chassis under the coach. IAW ... buy a heavy duty tool and then use it in a light duty way. :B