Soft Start included in the Coleman-Mach Air Conditioner?

[Robert58]

@TerryH,

So true. I read about the Airflow modules and was ready to install them . . . but I looked and saw that the AC units came with them already.

Bob

[COGrandDes]

@TerryH,

So true. I read about the Airflow modules and was ready to install them . . . but I looked and saw that the AC units came with them already.

Bob

I was planning on ordering these Coleman Soft Starts for my 2022 Reflection but I decided a couple days ago to pull my covers and check first just in case they have already been added for some reason.

[Soundsailor]

I was planning on ordering these Coleman Soft Starts for my 2022 Reflection but I decided a couple days ago to pull my covers and check first just in case they have already been added for some reason.

If you find one, could you post a picture? I also have a 2022 Reflection and I didn't see anything that looked like a soft start when I installed mine. Would the AC work with two soft starts? Mine has worked fine with the one I installed.

[COGrandDes]

If you find one, could you post a picture? I also have a 2022 Reflection and I didn't see anything that looked like a soft start when I installed mine. Would the AC work with two soft starts? Mine has worked fine with the one I installed.

Sure---will do. I have two AC units, so I was thinking of one for each unit---total of two.

[Soundsailor]

Sure---will do. I have two AC units, so I was thinking of one for each unit---total of two.

Thanks, actually I looked at my build sheet and we have the 15,000 BTU unit (https://colemanmachac.com/coleman-ma...669-15000-btu/), all of the ones Coleman-Mach shows on the website with soft start built in are 13,000 BTU. I'm pretty confident I didn't get one from the factory.

[COGrandDes]

Thanks, actually I looked at my build sheet and we have the 15,000 BTU unit (https://colemanmachac.com/coleman-ma...669-15000-btu/), all of the ones Coleman-Mach shows on the website with soft start built in are 13,000 BTU. I'm pretty confident I didn't get one from the factory.

Cool...I will try and check mine tonight and see what I have and report back.

[COGrandDes]

Cool...I will try and check mine tonight and see what I have and report back.

Ok....looks like I have both a 15K in the rear and a 13.5K in the front and neither have the soft starts installed. Looks like I will be ordering two of them from Coleman-Mach.

[RickLight]

My Mach 8 15K AC runs well on a 20A breaker at home or my Champion 3500 on propane. It's electrical info states a maximum 19A draw. I long ago concluded they use a large capacitor in the start up.

The tech for 'soft start' is almost as old as motors. And it's vastly cheaper to build it in from the start.

[hotpepperkid]

This is true unless you buy/install the Coleman Mach Soft Starts.

My story and Im sticking to it. A couple trailers ago I had Terry by Fleetwood and I could not start the AC with a Robins/Subaru 4300 inverter generator. I went round and round with
Robins/Subaru. Eventually I called Coleman and they ask be what trailer I had, aha they said that's your problem. We ship all of our AC's with a start cap but Fleetwood has us take them
off. Coleman sent me a start cap, plugged it in and guess what I could start if with a Honda 2000. My Reflection RL295 I can run the front AC with my Honda 2200 without any mods

[Soundsailor]

Ok....looks like I have both a 15K in the rear and a 13.5K in the front and neither have the soft starts installed. Looks like I will be ordering two of them from Coleman-Mach.

That looks very similar to what mine looks like.