microair easy start results

pianotuna wrote:
If I add power factor correction to the air conditioner will it "play well" with the EasyStart?

As you mentioned in your exchange with road-runner, power factor correction is merely a capacitor added to compensate for the inductance of motors or an autoformer in your case. This won't affect the EasyStart's operation since it is completely outside of its circuit and that of the air conditioner itself.

time2roll wrote:
Does Easy Start continue to learn each time or is it just fixed once the initial starts are complete?
Can the learning take place with normal cycling or is it better to manually cycle the equipment?
If my thermostat is set to "fan on" and just the compressor cycles how will that affect the learning and operation of the Easy Start?

Hello time2roll. To add to what jharrell and pianotuna contributed for you, the EasyStart does not continue to learn after the first 5 starts are completed. This is one of its big advantages. Next, you can allow the EasyStart to conducts its learning with normal cycling, providing you know you completed all 5 starts before you start moving back and forth between generator and utility. The only reason we recommend manually cycling and waiting around for the 5 minutes for each trial is to make sure they all get completed. Depending on the weather, your A/C could run all night in one, very long, single cycle. Lastly, you can set the A/C's thermostat to "Fan On" instead of "Fan Auto", and that will not affect the learning of the EasyStart. Typically, depending on the manufacturer and the model of the A/C's control, the fan is already running first before the compressor starts anyway. When powered from an adequate utility source, the EasyStart and its learning is not affected by any of the current going to the fan. However, when powered from a generator, the fan will obviously consume some of the generator's capacity (typically 3A for 1 fan motor with Dometic models, or for 2 fan motors with Coleman models) before the compressor is started. Thus this is one of the reasons for doing the learning on utility so that each starting trial can be better compared to each other without any variability introduced by the fan's affect on the the power source.