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  1. H

    UNBELIEVABLE - please tell us we're right

    Yep, ordinarily you can't run a 15k a/c and a microwave simultaneously off a 30 amp pedestal. Even with soft starts on both a/c's it would be iffy unless there was load shedding involved.
  2. RVThereYet

    How To Install a soft start in a Dometic roof top air conditioner

    So let me see if I am understanding this correctly. So what I understand is that going out and spending $1000+ on a new Furrion verses spending ~$300 on a SoftStart for a new A/C unit is better? I would agree with that if your unit has gone south on you but to do that just to get an A/C unit to...
  3. JoeHogan

    Tip Newmar Dometic A/C has softstart

    Contacted Micro Air for a RMA for the three unopened units. We’ll see…
  4. H

    50 amp

    ...but not the AC, electric water htr, and microwave. You may even trip the pedestal if running the AC and a blow dryer. If the AC has a soft start the pedestal would more likely support a 2 of the 3 combination above. If you have a gas option for the water htr. this would be a good time for it...
  5. C

    New A/C install - Soft Start Recommendations

    That was one of the units I was considering just based on other posts. Does that mount up inside the unit? or does it get wired inline between the RV and the unit power feed?
  7. T

    Just finished upgrading 2021 NA to three 460ah LI - OMG!

    Very nice! Let us know how the soft-start install and operation goes - if you do a separate thread on it, please post a link here.
  8. Neal

    Question Dometic thermostat

    Try comparing dip switches to see if they align? When I had someone install my first soft start he messed up the dip switches. Just compared the two.
  9. redbaron

    Tip Newmar Dometic A/C has softstart

    BTW, if your in Florida, the Mobile tech from Newmar is not very technical. He is a nice guy, but is lacking in technical ability. I would question all information provided by him.
  10. Neal

    Question Micro Air Easy Starts

    1000% YES. I will never have Dometic roof top A/C's without the easy/soft start. It seems the evidence shows those with them are far outlasting those without. Don't get the cheap knock-offs. https://www.microair.net/products/easystart-breeze-soft-starter Now if only I could find the...
  11. R

    New SoftStart product

    That is not how a soft start works, that plug-in device would effect all the power in your RV. I have installed soft starts on 200 HP motors to small half HP motors. They HAVE to be connected to the specific device (motor) and controlled to operate during start up (and sometimes shutdown)...
  13. Kevin D Pem

    New SoftStart product

    Very,vary sceptical!!! Why??? 15k unit runs, not starts on 1500 watts. Or roughly 100 watts for 1k BTU. So you can soft start one ac on 3000w generator, but the second will exceed the capacity of the generator. But there's more! The generator has a power dip before the engine catches up...
  14. Kevin D Pem

    New SoftStart product

    What we are looking at! A single phase(technically two phase) compressor motor has a run capacitor. In the old days a soft start device was an increased capacity capacitor (typically under 10bucks.) In a dedicated system there may have been a relay and a start capacitor. No matter, when the...
  15. L

    Just finished upgrading 2021 NA to three 460ah LI - OMG!

    Finished up everything and turned my system on to test yesterday. All is well. Next week I will install two soft start units. Going to wait and see if I even need solar.
  16. Kevin D Pem

    Another Sanicon Hose Failure

    With all you tech savvy people, why hasn't anyone done a dueeno soft start project rather than continue with the insanity???
  17. CaptainGizmo

    Question Micro Air Easy Starts

    Hey gang, We just installed a new Inverter HVAC at home, which doesn't need the EZ Start that I had just installed a few months ago. Seeing this thread, and realizing it can be used on an RV, I'm listing it here. I didn't think it would fit under the cover on our Roof A/C units, which are...
  19. redbaron

    Tip Newmar Dometic A/C has softstart

    Dometic only makes one type of Soft Start for the Penguin II, called the SmartStart. I have never seen this in any model year of any newmar. It does benefit from a direct plug n play installation. Would be very easy to see if your unit has this, as it will be a separate installation next to the...
  20. C

    How To Install a soft start in a Dometic roof top air conditioner

    I can't make sense of it. I manage to run two A/C's off a single leg of 30A divided to both A/C's. I do have the MicroAir Soft start on both units. When running they pull less than 14A. So...if you are in a 50A shore power connection, and the panel is balanced...you should easily run four...
  21. S

    13.5 A/C

    I run my 15k unit on 20 Amp often, no soft start. Make sure no other loads on circuit.
  22. T

    Towing ability

    I had Firestone Ride-Rite air bags on the back of the old Chevy P30 MH chassis, rear air bags on the 2008 Canyon baby truck, and just got half done completing Ram-Bro's air bag install on Thursday. Curb side bag installs Friday morning (so much rain in FL this week). Spring compression under...
  23. AbdRahim

    New SoftStart product

    Convenience. No installation needed. I bought two soft start units three or four years ago. Never installed them. More tha I wanted to tackle.
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