Installed a Micro-Air Soft Start today

17oaks wrote:

Rbertalotto wrote:

. I prob installed a good 5 or 6 different makes and brands of devices that you can buy to start your roof RV AC.

Interesting. Other than simple capacitors and this soft start device, I've not seen any other Dr ice that accomplished the same thing.

Can you list a fewthat you have indtalled?

Thanks

Its been awhile, but I had the wife order some off e bay, Amazon and TWeety's. They run about $20-$30, its a capacitor and you replace the one you have with xyz.

I never had any issues with it starting off pole power, but my 2500 Onan would not kick the compressor on and that is what I was wanting...not that we boondock often, but there are times I want or need to. Fine in winter, but summer in S Tx and AZ...no way!

If you're generator is right on the edge of starting an a/c, an inexpensive start cap will certainly help. They probably drop the LRA about 3-5 amps. Great solution if you only need a small reduction.

However, for those folks with smaller generators who need their LRA reduced as much as 10-20 amps to start their a/c, the Micro Air Easy Start is their only option. To my knowledge there is no other device on the market that even comes close to what the Micro Air Easy Start does. Typically, they drop the LRA more than 20 amps. A pretty amazing device.

For some, spending $250-$300 on the Micro Air is a much cheaper (and easier on the back) solution than purchasing a 2nd generator to parallel, or purchasing a larger, much heavier single generator.