Don't understand my air conditioner
I have a 2016 Forest River Rockwood 5th wheel with a Coleman Mach air conditioner in the kitchen/living area. I've seen intermittent operation that concerns me. The other day we returned from dry camp...
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2012Coleman wrote:OP wrote:Maybe I'm misinformed, but I thought that you could not run the AC on household current. I'm not an expert in electricity, but I'm guessing CW plugged into a 30 amp plug. I just had one wired for me at the new house. It's nice having a cool TT to load/unload/do repairs on.
When we returned home, we parked the RV in the driveway and hooked it up to 110 vac, 15 amp service using the 50 amp cable and a couple pig tails to get it to the right connector to plug in the outlet.
You may or may not be able to run it off a common outlet. As Collie Hauler indicated, if the plug is HOT then the connection isn't good enough. It will likely be slightly warm but the warmer it is, the poorer the supply of power is to the AC. It doesn't really matter if CW was able to do it or not. The conditions may be diffferent anyplace you plug in.
You should really be using a volt meter inside the rig to check for low voltage while the AC is running. Anything under about 106VAC is deadly to your AC (even if the plug is cool).
