microair easy start results
Well, here is a summary of the microair easy start on my coleman MachIII 13.5KBTU AC. First, the current results before installation. I had the supco soft start cap along with a 10 second time de...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi jharrell,
Music to my ears!
Any idea of the wattage draw on your 15k btu unit?
Thanks.
Depends on outside temperature, I have seen it pull up to 1600W but right now it's just pulling 1300W since its in the mid 70's outside.
The Magnum hybrid is interesting with solar and A/C running off it, right now my 320w of solar is putting out 225w and the Magnum is in Load Support VDC lowering the shore draw by about 2A so its only pulling 11A from the grid. Makes me want more solar!
Before the easy start the Magnum would complain with a overload randomly on A/C start and shutdown even when plugged into shore. Pretty sure the LRA of the compressor was dropping the line voltage below disconnect threshold, then the inverter would disconnect shore and try and start the compressor on its own going into overload. I had disconnect voltage dropped all the way to 60V still did it, Magnum only needs one cycle below 60V to trip. This is a a bug in my mind, but Magnum disagreed.
Anyway Easy-Start solved it and allowed me to start and run the A/C completely off battery if I want. IMO all RV A/C should have an integrated Easy-start from the factory, so much easier on everything. Actually R/V A/C's should be efficient inverter based compressors like a modern mini-split.
