Intermittent AC problems

[CliffP]

While camping last weekend our AC quit blowing cold air. I left it on and it started blowing cold air again a short time later. This lasted about 30 minutes then it went back to no cold air. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[jnbhobe]

While camping last weekend our AC quit blowing cold air. I left it on and it started blowing cold air again a short time later. This lasted about 30 minutes then it went back to no cold air. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Where is the fan setting at high, low, or auto ?? It may be on low and the ac is freezing up.

 

[hoefler]

Where is the fan setting at high, low, or auto ?? It may be on low and the ac is freezing up.

Freezing up

 

[boatto5er]

Be sure you are not running on LOW fan.


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[Rickhansen]

Ditto.

 

[jnbhobe]

Freezing up

Yep it needs high speed fan.

 

[wdk450]

I have noted mine doing that, too. It starts out running fan and compressor, and then can be found later running just fan, and the compressor comes back on eventually. From the level of the noise, I am sure it is on High fan.

 

[jnbhobe]

Just check the thermostat they all make a lot of noise

 

[CliffP]

Mindy has been running it on low. We don't have a 30 Amp plug in at home yet so we'll fire up the generator tomorrow night and try it on high. This forum is awesome! Thanks again and we'll surely post results.

 

[jnbhobe]

Mindy has been running it on low. We don't have a 30 Amp plug in at home yet so we'll fire up the generator tomorrow night and try it on high. This forum is awesome! Thanks again and we'll surely post results.

It will work on high just the way you have it.

 

[hoefler]

high fan should not pull much more than low fan, and you should be able to run on 30 amp service.

 

[jnbhobe]

high fan should not pull much more than low fan, and you should be able to run on 30 amp service.

He's useing a 15 or 20 amp now but it will still probably run on high as long as nothing else is on.

 

[CliffP]

We were plugging into a circuit that had other draws on it and it would trip a breaker whenever we turned on the AC. I hooked up to a 20 Amp circuit with no other draws and the AC has run fine with the fan on high for the last two hours. Everything appears to be working fine.
Thanks again!