Don White wrote:
"A Boater" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"John H." wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:13:48 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Sep 15, 5:47 pm, John H. wrote:
Gone four days and back to 853 messages. Over 300 from one individual.

Had a great time at Virginia Beach. Saw lots of boats. Will post
pictures
of some when I get the chance.

Air conditioner kept popping the circuit breaker when the temp was
hovering
around 95 yesterday.

Anyone know anything about air conditioners?
--
John H.
John, I take it you're talking about your auto air conditioner?

What make and model?
No, Tim, it's one of these buggers: http://tinyurl.com/69jflb

The one on the trailer. Once the outside temp cooled down, in the
evening,
the AC ran fine. But during the hottest part of the day, the thing would
trip the circuit breaker no matter how we adjusted the settings. I found
a
web site, so I'll do a little research.
--
John H.
I think your warranty would be expected to cover that. I wouldn't start
monkeying with anything until that warranty period is up.

Let me see here. You're outside, inside a metal sardine can, in a trailer
park full of other metal sardine cans. You're all hooked up to the trailer
park's wiring, and you all have your air conditioning on. The voltage is
dropping.
Hmmm.


That's a possibility.
A good multimeter would be a handy test tool in that case.
Better tell John how to use one to test the voltage at an A/C outlet.




I would recommend that Herring wet two fingernails and stick them in the
outlet. If he gets a woody, it's 110.

It was very hot one day this past weekend, in the mid 90s. Typically
there are voltage drops in the utility wiring when that happens. I know
that for several reasons, one of which being the rather substantial UPS
I have for electronic appliances. When the power drops a bit, it
switches over to the batteries, even if it is just for a couple of seconds.

Herring may have some other problem, but I would guess a minor drop in
line voltage.

I thought our boy was a former Army engineer or something like that.
Doesn't he know any science, or is he one of those who believes in
cretinism, er, creationism?