AC Not Working / Unusual Symptoms
Dometic Penguin AC on kids R-Pod has failed. Ran but did not cool. Then started to blow shore power source breaker in campground and at home, regardless of attaching cord used. No breaker in RV was ...
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enahs wrote:
Have not checked capacitors, since the RV AC specialist I consulted by phone said that is an unlikely issue, though I will probably do that before buying a new AC. I know how to do it. The breakers that tripped were 30 amp. Nothing else running in RV. It did not trip the 20 amp AC breaker in the RV.
Yea, RV specialist. Did you have to pay for that phone call? Capacitors are indeed the FIRST thing you look at. Now, If out of 410(not freon), the compressor would just RUN and never cycle off. If it comes ON and the cycles off, then it could be its overload switch which means the compressor is bad. Or, the capacitor is weak. Doug
