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Buzzcut
Explorer
Mar 21, 2019

Much of a difference between 13,500 or 15,000 BTU A/C?

I’m getting ready to add a second A/C to our t/t that came equipped with a 15,000 Dometic unit. It worked fine but it did get a little warm last summer when we went away for two weeks. Looking to eith...
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3_tons
Explorer III
Mar 26, 2019
dougrainer wrote:
pianotuna wrote:
I'd go for 13500 as they can be run on a 15 amp circuit.


A 13.5 Brisk air pulls 13.1 amps at 95 degrees.
A 15k Brisk air pulls 14.2 amps at 95 degrees
So, why can't you run either on a 15 amp circuit????????????? Doug


Doug, my Coleman 11k Mach 1 P.S. is rated at 9.0 running amps with Lo-fan, but using a clamp-on meter (on source hot wire), I consistantly measure about 11.6a...Can you suggest a way to measure for winding leakage?

Thanks

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