Installed a Micro-Air Soft Start today
So there's a backstory first --- When I bought my 1160, I got it 6mos old used. Original owner bought it stripped - no AC, no gen, not even any TVs. I got a helluva deal on it, and first thing I d...
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work2much wrote:
The Micro-air soft start is more than just a bigger "hard start" capacitor. Here is my install on a Dometic Penguin 11.5k unit.
This is the brains of the system. It learns from each successive start for the first few starts of the compressor and creates a custom profile for your air conditioner. I watched our battery monitor and the spike in wattage did decrease with each start through our inverter.
Because this module was too big to fit where the old removed start capacitor was located they have you mount it on the opposite side of the unit and a cable bundle crosses over back to the air conditioners electrical circuits.
Old start cap removed.
New wires routed in. And connected.
The company is great to deal with and they have detailed installation instructions for specific air conditioner units online. I had a couple questions that they answered very quickly vis e-mail. The install was pretty easy. If you have basic wiring skills you can do this yourself. If your smaller generator is having a hard time bumping the condenser give one a try.
I talked with them and yes they are good to talk with.. I prob installed a good 5 or 6 different makes and brands of devices that you can buy to start your roof RV AC. I saw no use for the "custom profile" so I took a pass on it along with keeping my $300 bucks.
Saving the money and figuring out how to start it off my batteries which has never failed is good enough for me. YEA I stayed awake night thinking on that but that's just the engineer in me. A good deal of my career found me watching the sun come up trying to solve a problem for the day or week before, LOL. Those were the days andI would not have it any other way!
