Micro air easy start

[Thigh19]

Still running the factory roof mount a/c and it works fine. To make life easier on my Onan 4K, been looking at the micro air easy start. Do newer a/c
have easy start built in? The reason I ask, $300+ for easy start on my near 50 year old a/c, or should I just replace mine with a new $700-800 unit?
Up here in the NW, do we really need 15k a/c or will a 13.5k be sufficient? If I do replace, advantage to low pro?
Thanx in advance
Thom High
73 Sequoia
Vancouver Washington

 

[LQQKatJon]

For the oem air, i just installed a “hard start” capacitor. Like $20? Ebay or amazon. I think it really helped.

Some modern ac units have some ez start capacitor circuitry. I still installed a “hard start” capacitor on my atwood. I think it helped.

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Jon Roche
75 palm beach
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St. Cloud, MN
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[Matt Colie]

Thom,

If the roof A/C you have is not misbehaving, I suggest you leave it alone. Those "Soft Start" devices are really for people that do not have adequate
AC power either from their very own APU or Crampground power post. If you were to install one in you antique A/C unit, all it would do is take away
the Grunt that the old Onan does when the A/C kicks on. The way the Onan is built, it makes no matter to him as long as you give him the care he
deserves.

By the By, if that unit is like mine was, it has oil tubes on the fan motor and I bet it hasn't had any oil in it since forever.....

¿¿Mine?? It was working just fine, but it was about 2" too tall for my barn door. I took it off for the winter lots of years, but that got old.
So, I bought a low profile Carrier. Now it fits, but that factory burned and carrier closed off that whole product line.

Matt
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Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
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