vladen
Louisiana
Senior Member
Joined: 09/11/2010
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
 Offline
|
If you have good friends in refrigeration you can probably get it fixed reasonable. If you dont mgiht just go ahead buy a new one.
Vlad's busy workings
All hope is gone
|
mph_medic
Southaven, MS (Outside Memphis, TN)
Full Member
Joined: 03/27/2010
View Profile
Offline
|
You can get new A/C or pulled from newer Motorhomes for less that $800 on Ebay every day.. why repair and repair when NEW is always better.. And they can not be recharged unless you want to put more money in then than they are worth...
* This post was
edited 04/23/12 12:05am by an administrator/moderator *
Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to the Paramedics...
1993 Damon Frontier Flyer
|
katysdad
Virginia
Senior Member
Joined: 08/03/2010
View Profile
|
may also be a bad start capacitor for the compressor.
Dodge Ram 3500 DRW Diesel
|
MudChucker
Niverville Manitoba
Senior Member
Joined: 03/07/2008
View Profile
Offline
|
Trouble is, younstill need to have the leak resolved...knowing how to recharge it is no use if you can't fix the trouble.
2005 PILGRIM 274RL 5SS
2007 GMC Sierra 2500HD SLT 6.0
|
shaneallenhenderson
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
New Member
Joined: 04/17/2012
View Profile
Offline
|
mph_medic wrote:Dude.. You can get new A/C or pulled from newer Motorhomes for less that $800 on Ebay every day.. why repair and repair when NEW is always better.. And they can not be recharged unless you want to put more money in then than they are worth...
$800 might be hard to come by before summer
|
|
|
Wills250psd
walnutcove NC
Senior Member
Joined: 08/13/2011
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
|
shaneallenhenderson wrote:mph_medic wrote:Dude.. You can get new A/C or pulled from newer Motorhomes for less that $800 on Ebay every day.. why repair and repair when NEW is always better.. And they can not be recharged unless you want to put more money in then than they are worth...
$800 might be hard to come by before summer I agree, but atleast you have 2 It could be worse.
|
wbwood
Mooresville/Troutman, NC area
Senior Member
Joined: 05/01/2005
View Profile
Offline
|
How old is the unit that went out? Have to agree, it might be better to bite the bullet and get a new one. Especially if it has some age on it.
Brian
RVing Illustrated
2010 Keystone Sprinter Select 31BH
2001 Coleman Santa Fe
|
C Schomer
Buckeye, Az.
Senior Member
Joined: 12/26/2000
View Profile
Offline
|
I do hvacr service and it takes soooo much equipment and time to do things the epa way. It was much faster, easier and cheaper to do repairs before 88 and it was very common to have the small stuff fixed. It's bad enough dragging all the equipment around when there is plenty of room to work around a unit but working on RVs absolutely sucks. I did a lot of it when I worked for a small contractor in 05. You might be able to find a service co. that's geared for the small stuff like window bangers and rv ac but it's almost as expensive to get into one of those little systems as the bigger systems, thanks to the epa. I'd rather work on the 100 ton RTUs where I work. Craig
|
JJBIRISH
Butler, PA, USA
Senior Member
Joined: 10/06/2002
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
|
You should be able to find a new one for a little more than $450 or a power saver model for around $650...
Love my mass produced, entry level, built by Lazy American Workers, Hornet
|
eddie3260
Florence, al
Senior Member
Joined: 05/26/2007
View Profile
Offline
|
With only the fan running, push the switch over to A/C with the temp controller at it's lowest setting. Afterwards, if you hear a change in pitch, like a low hum, but the compressor isn't coming on and no cold air; I would change out the motor start capacitor before replacing the unit. A capacitor will only run you around $15.
If nothing happens after switching over to A/C, then get the multimeter out, pull the plenum off the ceiling and start troubleshooting the circuits. Could be the control relay that starts the compressor is not getting a signal from the controller, freeze protection thermistor is stopping the compressor from coming on, etc....
* This post was
edited 04/23/12 12:00am by eddie3260 *
|
|
|
