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wopachop
Explorer
Aug 21, 2018

This guy cut the shroud on his A/C---Good idea?

Its a 15 minute video of him cutting the shroud and installing metal lath. Idea being there is better airflow and therefor better cooling. Feel free to fast forward you wont miss any special tips. ...
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j-d
Explorer II
Aug 21, 2018
Our Coleman Mach 15 was overheating. Without shroud (Maxxair MaxxTuff) it ran better. So I made a flat "roof" from plastic sheeting.
Then Chris Bryant pointed out that I needed baffling at the corners of the condenser. Cut a couple from a swim noodle and it ran right again with shroud on.
A season later it didn't seem quite right. I carry spare capacitors and swapped Compressor Run. Smoother, queter, cooler. Cap tested OK on Fluke and ran the compressor. Go Figure

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