Welp....went camping this last weekend....at Vale Lake in the Temecula Valley, California. Hot was the order of the day, and, unfortunately, my A/C decided to stop working after about 2 hours. I do believe it ran out of freon, though I am not 100% sure. It is the original unit and is 27 years old, so I guess I can't complain all too much.
I am going to have the freon checked...depending on the results of the "once over" I will decide whether to have this old unit worked on or just purchase a new unit. I can get a new Carrier 13.5K BTU unit for about $500 shipped via ebay. My current unit is a 11K BTU model so I am sure a 27 year newer larger model will cool my 22' rig quite handily. I am a LITTLE concerned that the portible PowerWise 3500 generator I just purchased WOULDN'T fire up a 13.5K unit...though I am pretty confident it will considering that it fired up that 11K OLD ass unit without issue and I would imagine that power consumption has dropped in these units over the last 27 years?!?
We shall see. Bottom line is that $500 is $500 and considering that I need to drop some new meat on the rig ASAP, things could start to get expensive ...especially for a $3,900 dinosaur desert rig.
So, of course, I am hoping it is just the freon...
