Good Grief, I have been writing for almost an hour to repost what has happened on my S&S and wanted also to put in a photo of our trip and for some reason it all went bye bye and yes, I got ticked a little. Imagine that!!
I am not going to retype all that I did for all that time but will condense and perhaps not put you to sleep like I normally do. The results of the air conditioner problem of the circut breaker cutting off after a few moments is: Here is the tests done to determine what I did after betting suggestions from more experienced busnuts on this board, thanks to all again for making a good week of camping possible especially after all this darn heat this week.
(1) Measured power at Main circut breaker in converter before activating air conditoner = (114 volts.)
(2) Measured power at 20 amp air conditioner circut breaker before activating air conditioner = (114 volts).
(3) Measured power at 20 amp air conditioner circut breaker after activating air conditioner = (107.3 volts).
(4) Removed front panel of converter control panel, it was very, very warm next to the air conditioner circut breaker in particular. Installed a temporary 12 volt fan close to the front of the control panel, started up air conditoner after panel was cool and within a few moments the air conditioner circut breaker cut off again!!
(5) Determined that heat inside of converter control panel not to blame for circut breaker cutting off. Now my thinking is Air conditoner or Circut breaker is bad. I took the cheaper route to check first at the suggestion that the circut breaker could be bad from Tomc. We went to ACE hardware to purchase a new circut breaker, (cost of breaker $10) with the information off the front of the original circut breaker and installed it in a matter of a few moments.
Air conditoner worked great, it never shut off again. It did however keep throttling the compressor on and off for 21 seconds with a 30 second interval in between day and night all the time like it had before our circut breaker breakdown. Is this normal operation for roof airs, especially of this age, (1988, Tioga Arrow)??
Well, we had a great week and the results of this experience has me planning to do the following:
(1) Install a 12 volt colling fan in power converter control panel to be active anytime power is supplied to converter. This has to help in all situations of monitoring our power supply. Infact, I plan to install all new circut breakers in power converter, if one original is bad I suspect this is a sign that all could be at a near shut down also because of use and age.
(2) Plan on getting a newer air conditoner, low boy when affordable considering I just put in $1600 to change over my dash air that was bad from day of purchase, (What else of coarse)!!
To newbies, If you have what you believe to be a "DUMB" question like I thought mine was and affraid to look stupid etc. never mind that worry. Ba-- busting on this board is not tolerated and helping everyone else out with a question of any kind is the important consideration by all on this board and I am glad to have their support. So have confidence and ask and I am sure between all inputs from reply's that you will have a good guidance to make decision from.
Thanks again to all that replied, see you at either Timmonsville or Arcadia I hope, thanks again, have a good weekend.
I am not even going to attempt to install any photo's in this post again.
Suggestion to Moderators, Is it possible to have your program "NOT DELETE" anything we are typing like I did unless I tell it to DELETE?? Can a modification be made so that we will not lose our information when trying to install images etc. like I tried to do after all that time of writing text?? Everyone probably would of been asleep after reading it like normally anyhow.
Gary