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  1. J

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

    What I am saying is the 1000 investment will return itself in energy savings and efficiency, while the soft start will just help reduce the load when the unit starts up.Most people who are installing these soft starts are doing so to reduce the cost of a inverter or allow a 3000 watt inverter to...
  2. redbaron

    Tip Newmar Dometic A/C has softstart

    That’s what I thought. With a microair, it will never exceed 15 and often just 12. Starts at 2amps and slowly goes to 12-15. That’s the job of a true soft start. The extra capacitor is just the normal fan hard start. Nothing special. Been in all dometic for years.
  3. H

    Question Micro Air Easy Starts

    I can only tell you that before the soft start capacitor I couldn't turn on the microwave in my 30 amp coach while the a/c was running without an overload and trip at the pedestal. After, I can run the microwave or a toaster with the a/c running without issue.
  4. J&JD

    When the water softener goes unused…

    Wow Clodhopper, I commend you if you follow those instructions consistently. Good job for sure. Sadly, there are also so many other areas of sanitation that most people don’t pay attention to. I hate to even start with watching people hook/unhook their water & sewer systems (and their soft...
  5. J

    Harvest Host at Pine Drive Farm VA

    careful ! soft starts are just that, designed to control the inrush current needed to start the air conditioner. They will not reduce the required power needed by the air conditioners to actually run.That said, consider Furrions Chill Cube 18K, you can run 2 of these units on a 30 amp service...
  7. redbaron

    Harvest Host at Pine Drive Farm VA

    Careful….Newmar is not compatible with Furion. I personally love the furion, but that won’t help the OP. And soft starter does resolve the issue as the in rush is the problem. I only need 11amps to run a single 15k air unit or 33 to run all 3 This is down from the 21 starting and 18 running...
  8. Underboss

    Tip Newmar Dometic A/C has softstart

    I was told the same thing.
  9. 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.
  10. 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...
  11. JoeHogan

    Tip Newmar Dometic A/C has softstart

    Contacted Micro Air for a RMA for the three unopened units. We’ll see…
  13. 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...
  14. 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?
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  19. 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...
  20. 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)...
  21. 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...
  22. 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...
  23. 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.
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