Quote:
Originally Posted by scott
In Indiana you can get by with 1 A/C unit as long as it is a 15,000 BTU. For the months of July and August you have to use dark window coverings or park on a shaded campsite for the 15,000 to keep up but you can get by. As you mentioned, consider the service the parks you camp at offer, it does take 50 amp to run both A/C units.Â*
|
Careful, I ran both of mine on a 30A circuit. I didn't think it would do it either but it did. I found out by accident when I entered the trailer after getting the outside set up and found the DW had both running. I informed her she couldn't do that and she just looked at me. Ran them over the Labor Day weekend. A couple of caveats though. The BR is a 13,500 and they both operate off the same thermostat which step starts them. At no time did both start up at the same time. The other is we didn't run anything else with both going, especially coffee pot, microwave, HW heater(on 120v) etc. All the high current stuff. Had to turn off one to make coffee.
Just to be sure I wasn't crazy I went home and hooked up to my generator (Yamaha EF4500) and it ran both. It showed about 80% of capacity but did it. YMMV
I would say go with 2 units. If you run the main unit in the daytime and then the bedroom one at night it will work better. On mine the ducted AC (Main) just doesn't do much for the bedroom so normally we run one or the other when on 30A.
Edited by: avvidclif