Success, checked the fridge this morning and it has cooled off, now I guess it's time to see if the air works, too bad I don't have a 30 amp feed to try it.
I haven't mentioned it in this thread but I only paid $800 for this unit, it came with a WDH and a sway bar, I have about $100 into it so far and the biggest expense will be the tires, they look good but are more than 10 years old and i'm not interested in taking a chance with them
you can "test" your AC, with everything else turned off, with the Cord adapeter (often refered to as a dog bone) that lets you use your garage's wall socket. just use as short as possible extension cord, since your camper already has 25ft cord. A Test is a few minutes. Please note the AC can take a lot of "juice" to start, so if like me the socket you use also powers other things in the garage, the breaker might not hold it. I ended up moving mine to another breaker for use with the camper. I dont just run the AC with it, but the wife did while loading stuff. I do just enough to see that the AC will work, after care and maint.
use a lot of caution, use a good and big guage but short extension cord like an orange outdoor type 3 wire, I cannot stress enough to use short as you can get by with, even if you go buy one just for this purpose.
FWIW, when the wife did this --> ran the ac all afternoon while packing, it melted the connection on the extension cord to the dogbone. she doesnt do this anymore, lol.
About the fridge, Here's a tip fo you DF:
get a 12v fan or 2. and look for the thread about
fridge fan... as you mentioned temps while working on this camper. You are in slightly cooler climate than me, as I live in Kansas & it has been 103 or more for 2 weeks, and expect more to come.
Anyway, I replaced the single factory fan that was wired to 12v through a thermostat on the fridge coils, that I never heard or saw it work. I took the original fan out, replaced with 2 superquiet fans from Newegg computers online store. My modification was also, to a self installed toggle switch with the same 12v supply that the singe fan had, from battery, bypassing the thermostat on fridge coils, directly to a toggle that I turn on, and it runs all the time I have fridge in operation. This took my non functioning fridge to functioning.
My fridge is a 2 door unit (rm2611) (means it has freezer and fridge). before mod, when camping and temps remotely reached 90 degrees, My fridge would stop working, and all the fride repair people would tell me it was a bad $400+ cooling unit. I now assume because the back of the fridge area was getting too hot, no air circulation was happeing, to alow cooling on the inside. However, I have not camped yet, at above 90 degrees yet this year since doing the mod, but it still seems promising.
I have read on here, that the factory fan you will hear it run, if everything else is quite in the camper. the dual fans I bought, are quiet and I cannot hear them, plus they move a lot of air. ALso, the Fans I bought were going to be used in my computer case, & they came with speed controlers, which are integrated into the wiring, and which are not accessable in camper (cable too short to mount easily). But there are probably better ones that are always full speed... but I made it all work out ok, fans run full speed, and since you cant see in there, so the wires wont distract the average joe, lol.
