PrivatePilot wrote:
Although I know it's the wrong time of year in many areas...has anyone confirmed if the Champion will start a roof air equipped with a hard start capacitor?
I'm sure that it's a lost cause without a hard start cap, but I'm very curious to find out if people equipped with such were able to get the AC to fire off. Once running this little champ should have no issues with *keeping* it running...it's the start surge that's going to be the issue clearly.
Mark, I did try it on my rotary compressor soft start Dometic 15K. No, it will not even begin to start the A/C. But, neither would the other other 3. I know some Honda owners claim to be running soft start 13.5K A/C's on their Honda 2,000 hooked directly to the unit (no parasitic loss) and even though I have not actually seen this, I do believe some "might" actually be making it work. But, you can be sure the procedure is like trying to pull a 15,000 pound fifth wheel trailer with a Chevy 1500.
Let me just come right out and say this: You are NOT going to
start a 13.5K BTU RV air conditioner - soft start, easy start or whatever, with a Champion 2000i programmed with the same software for managing surge loads as the ones I currently have. Of course, they were never intended or advertised to do that amount of work either.
