roof air conditioning draining over entry door

[jhopkins44]

We have a 2017 Winnebago Navion 24G. When the air conditioning unit is running, the condensation drains from the roof down the entry door or out onto the awning if it is open. Quite a bit of water accumulates so there is constant dripping from the awning. It drips on us when I go out the door. When we are moving and need to roll up the awning, we have to stay inside the motor home to bring it in so we don't get soaked with the water as it spills off the awning.

Is there any way the draining water can be re-routed to avoid the entry door and awning?

[Old_Crows]

Well Bud, welcome to the wild and woolly side of RVing.....

RV Camping Law # 17. No matter how you level or adjust your RVs stance, the AC condensate will run off onto the awning and/or drip off above the main door and onto you and the steps. It just IS.

(Personally, it's the wee people and fairie people..... they are directing the water toward the door way..... )

Seriously, it's just what happens. I've no idea why but three RVs tell me it's the way things are unless you lay the camper on it's side.

The suggestion to 'pitch' the awning is good but if your Navion is like my View, it has a 'self erecting' awning and there's no struts to adjust or trim. It just cantilevers out. If water collects on it, just retract it a bit and let the water drain off. The bigger issue is not to store it a long time with a wet awning. That will get oooogly pretty fast.

If your Navion is fitted with at Coleman Mach 8 AC-Heatpump, the condensate drain is not as on older ACs where the stuff sort of drained out from a hose or couple holes in the floor of the AC unit. The Mach 8's expansion coil sits in a molded resin tray and is side to side in the unit. At either side are wells about the size of a cigarette pack. Condensate drains from under the coil into these wells. Wells have drain holes and the condensate drips directly on to the roof from either side of the AC. The holes are pretty big so you don't have to worry about clogging. All this mess is covered by the bonnet.

The good news is: condensate production tells you that the unit is working as designed.

[Sam_Spade]

CharlesinGA wrote:
My 2007 View does the same thing, drips over the coach door, if the RV is tilted that direction.

Maybe y'all need to clean your gutters.

Or check for other obstructions like screws driven through the tiny little channel blocking it.

If a section has been cut out of the gutter to mount something like an awning......then you pretty much have to control the flow with your leveling.

[CharlesinGA]

My 2007 View does the same thing, drips over the coach door, if the RV is tilted that direction.

Charles

[ScottG]

Also remove the AC's cover and check the drains. Maybe the other side is blocked.

[Sam_Spade]

MobileBasset wrote:

I have a channel on the roof edge of my RV that sends all the AC water along to the outer front or rear corners depending on how my unit is leveled.

Me too. Kind of.

Alas there are "breaks" in the channel allowing it to drip off before the corners sometimes.

If....this has happened only once, see if it happens again.
If it repeats, then you probably need to get up on the roof to see where the water is actually coming out of the A/C and why it is dripping off above the door.

[MobileBasset]

When you are leveling the RV give it a small tilt to the direction you would like it to drain. When it is collecting on the awning pull one of the outer awning corners down and tighten the arm in that position to allow the water to drain off. You should not let water collect on the awning.
I have a channel on the roof edge of my RV that sends all the AC water along to the outer front or rear corners depending on how my unit is leveled.