sparkydave
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I just picked up a Coleman Mach 3 air conditioner and an installation kit for my Rockwood. The instructions with the wiring kit aren't that clear and the pictures are lousy, but it appears the preferred way is to put a hole in the side of the roof, and mount the socket there. Then run some romex through a piece of aluminum channel mounted the the ceiling to the roof controls, and run the long cord with the female end through the extra cord access. Does that seem to be the right way? My unit came with the circuit breaker, junction box, and cord access from the factory.
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bondebond
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You could do it that way...
Similarly, from my ceiling unit, I used plastic raceway, something like this to run the power cord from the unit to the ceiling wall, where there is elbow and some more raceway coming down the ceiling side wall. This is all attached with double-sided foam tape. I don't like putting holes in my roof, even on the inside.
 
Then, the cord just hangs down at a strategic place (not in front of a window, but in front of one of the root support bars), down to the base of the PUP. There, I have installed a 20 amp outlet like this.
This outlet is on a separate circuit in the power converter. I added a breaker like this one. Just make sure it fits your converter before installing. If you converter already has an A/C breaker installed, then you'll just need to tie into it.
Hopefully, your PUP has a dedicated circuit for the A/C already wired. If there is a 20 amp breaker installed, chances are, the outlet is somewhere inside too.
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ScottG
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The receptacle shown above is a 240V, you really should use a 20A 120V recpt. like this:
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1995brave
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I had a Rockwood PUP with the factory air installed. The power cord from the air came down the canvas right near the kitchen sink and plugged into an outlet on the wall.
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RoyB
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My 2008 Starcraft 14RT air conditioner setup is installed with a long black 120VAC Power PLUG that runs from the ceiling mounted air conditioner unit to the wall behind the stove/sink and runs along the ceiling side to the area shown below and is just a hanging cable. The black cable loops back behind the valance curtains and is in a hook arrangement when not being used. The curtain valance hides the cable. I too have a short piece of wiremold from the roof mounted air conditioner to the side of the ceiling to hid the black cable going across the ceiling to the wall.
When being used you just drop the cable down the back wall and into the wrap-around around seating area shown below. The cable goes behind the seat cushions and goes into the center bench storage area (behind the right speaker shown here and plugs into the standard 120VAC 20AMP receptacle. This spot was picked I guess because of the close proxiomity to the Power Distribution Center that you see mounted close to the floor on the right. the A/C gets its 120VAC power from a separate circuit breaker in this Power Distribution Center.
Everything is totally out of site when connected up. The rear bed draw curtain hide the black air conditioner cable coming down the trailer wall. I always un-plug the air conditioner cord prior to getting the trailer ready for transport and place the long air conditioner cord in its holder clip on the side of the ceiling.
I am thinking mine also has this 120VAC receptacle installed inside the middle seat storage area which is connected to the Power Distribution Center using romex cable. (not the one Scott described)
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ScottG
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Roy, I sincerely doubt that it has that plug, if they did then it was most likely to keep you from plugging anything else into that plug. It t would also mean the manufacturer intentionally put a 240V plug on a 120V appliance. Potentially this could easily cause a fire if someone were to actually plug that appliance into 240V. If they did this then it's wrong and its a violation of several electrical codes.
The receptacles are very similar but have different ratings to keep people from doing damage.
Really, there is just no reason to use the wrong parts.
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RoyB
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Scott - I know... what is sitting in my mind is that one plug pin is horizontal. It could be the other side I guess... My POPUP is still closed up at the moment. I will double check when I get it opened up again. I have purchased a second cord to hookup to a generator connection so maybe that will tell me as well... unfortunately it is also inside my POPUP trailer haha...
Of course the dealer is the one that installed the air conditioner - probably to them it doesnt matter if they plug together haha...
I am probably wrong but I do know for sure one of the pins in the plug is horizontal and also pretty sure it is the one on the right. But my receptacle might be installed upside down... I guess you can plug a horizontal or vertical pin in the left hand side of your photo above...
Thanks for bringing it up... It needs to be in code for sure...
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I stand corrected... I have just physically confirmed this is the PLUG and RECEPTACLE I am using in my OFF-ROAD POPUP for the Air Conditioner connections... Thanks Scott for keeping me straight haha... I guess the horizontal part of the plug led me astray...
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bondebond
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There, I have updated my original post with a 125v version. Sorry for the incorrect information.
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galexander
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My last P/U had a seperate outlet for the A/C by the sink.
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RoyB
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bondebond - I almost would have bet money I was like your first photo. My air conditioner cable has the NEMA 5-20P on the end of it and this is suppose to plug into the 125VAC Receptacle NEMA 5-20R. AS you notice they dont look like a male/female plug/receptacle at all haha... All I remembered seeing was the horizontal pin on the NEMA 5-20P plug...
Glad we both got it cleared up now...
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