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.
I hear what you're saying. I'm not sure either. I assumed if the pigtails were not hot or warm while running the air conditioner, everything was ok. I do know that if I run a vacuum cleaner or microwave in the camper while on air con, I'll blow the breaker in my house when connected to 15 amp service. If I just run the air con, it seems to be ok but I don't understand how compressors work and if a low voltage or power can cause problems.
