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  1. Kevin D Pem

    Question Why are Dometic roof top RV air conditioners lasting longer with Micro-Air Soft Starts?

    ...one failure. Because real A/C Technicians don't work in the the RV industry perfectly good units are being replaced. Digging further, soft start units reduce impact from abrupt starts. This in turn reduces wear on any coil that was improperly fixed in place by the varnishing process so...
  2. R

    Air conditioner change

    Thanks, exactly what i did. New AC unit board controlled 10-12 button thermostats and his is a 5. Wired up, AC & heat pump working fine. He ordered a soft start as well. The dealer sold him the AC unit and soft start and the soft start is the wrong one.
  3. Joe Dutchstar

    Tip Newmar Dometic A/C has softstart

    Today the Newmar mobile service Mark came to discuss installing the Micro Air soft start. He informed me that Dometic installs a softstart in all Newmar A/C from the factory. This is a Special Order from Newmar factory. Apparently DP units have softstart. I now have three unopened MicroAir units...
  4. Neal

    Resolved Soft start

    Fixed https://rvforums.com/search/349534/?q=soft+start&o=relevance
  5. Neal

    New A/C install - Soft Start Recommendations

    For soft start recommendations I recommend Micro Air: https://www.microair.net/collections/easystart-soft-starters
  7. J

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

    To chime in, I looked at these soft starts and as of today you can drop in a Furrion 18k chill cube which is basically a split unit in a box.The benefit over a soft start s the unit has a built in variable speed compressor and it works great for a top usage of about 1450 watts cranked up all the...
  8. 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...
  9. J&JD

    A/C soft start units

    Looking for info from those that have installed soft start equipment on their a/c units. I know @Neal has and I pm’d him but thought it might be worth asking the group about their experiences with these units. There is a company called Softstart that is advertising units at $50 off and free...
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. 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...
  14. U

    Tip Newmar Dometic A/C has softstart

    I was told the same thing.
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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.
  19. Joe Dutchstar

    Tip Newmar Dometic A/C has softstart

    Contacted Micro Air for a RMA for the three unopened units. We’ll see…
  20. 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...
  21. 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.
  22. 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?
  23. 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...
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