Soft start capacitors
Should every ac have a soft star cap installed? If so, why don’t they come that way? Is there any downside? Thanks
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Chum lee wrote:
IME whenever a manufacturer designs/builds a situation/component that isn't as fool proof as possible, Murphy's law eventually takes effect.
In life, Murphy's Law states "Whatever can go wrong eventually will."
IMO, with regard to RV gennys and AC units, this is a manufacturers way of telling its customers, "Look guys and gals, just buy the correct size generator." (if you want your system to work reliably most of the time) The manufacturer has NO IDEA OR CONTROL OVER what foolish things their customers might try so they opt for the most fail safe mode possible. If you decide to alter their design, it now becomes your design and the manufacturer is quick to point that out to you when/if things go wrong.
Chum lee
x2 for that. The vast majority of aircon units on RVs never see any boondocking service let alone users wanting to run the unit with a small inverter generator on eco mode. Those are extreme edge-case scenarios.
