RV Thermostat Troubleshooting
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- RV Thermostat Troubleshooting Cheat Sheet: rvrepairwoman.com/thermostat
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:12 How Thermostat Works
1:06 Thermostat Testing
1:27 Voltage In
2:55 Cheat Sheet
3:17 AC Compressor
4:42 AC Fan
5:44 AC Next Step
6:20 Heat
7:06 Upgrade Thermostat
8:17 Cat 5 Thermostats
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Most clear cut vid I have encountered on testing a thermostat. Keep up the great work. So good it convinced me to like and subscribe
Awesome tech vid! I was able to troubleshoot that it was not my thermostat like I thought it was! Excellent job keep them vids going!
Your vids are awesome! RV Tech in Canada and I've learned a lot from you!
Love your vids - I am the person who knows nothing until I listen to you and try to do something! One thing, more is how do you test the heat strip controlled by a thermostat? Would be great updating your pdf, too! 😉Thx
Great video as always. Thanks Don
Thanks 👍
Thank you for mentioning the furnace on/off switch. That was the problem. Seems our cat has been playing behind the couch (furnace location). Building project scheduled. 😉
Awesome! Glad that tidbit helped someone, it’s not a common set up for that reason. (Well maybe not cats 😂)
I hated my Coleman analog thermostat from the first day we got the coach.
I fought with it for a few years but finally I replaced it with a nice Honeywell
digital which works PERFECTLY. Best upgrade I ever made to my coach.
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What model did you get? Thanks.
@rvrepairwoman: You do a wonderful job. Getting to be up there with my other fav RV channel @RVstreet.
I have a 2 wire heat only Suburban analog thermostat. I’m going to try placing the probes of my multimeter on those and see what I read. Thanks for the videos.
Love the video! Great info and explanations. Ive got a question... i have that exact thermostat. What is the battery compartment there for? It doesn't connect to, or power anything? So how does it get the DC power? Thanks. You just earned a new subscriber!!😊
I stumbled across this video. Wow!! I love your energy and ability to make the complex simple. You have a new subscriber. By the way, is the cheat sheet that you mentioned in the video still available? For some reason I couldn't reach it.
I just recently moved my whole website to a different hosting site and some things are taking a minute to move over. I’ll check that page when I get back to my office
@@rvrepairwoman Great. I can't wait to try your troubleshooting method tomorrow; especially checking the on/off switch on the furnace that I just installed.
No heat from your propane furnace? Be sure to see all gas valves are on. Just the other day, I couldn't get heat from the furnace on my "new to me" 2015 Winnebago Via. Then, as I was looking at controls on the wall, I remembered that there is a on-off switch for the propane, (as well as the valve on the propane tank). The Via is the first rig that I've owned with a on/off rocker switch for the propane.
I'm sorry to bother you. I got a new thermostat and the ac still won't kick on =(. I'm thinking its because I didn't tell you that I"m also having trouble with the battery. The wiring diagram looks like the blue wire hooks up to the negative dc power source, which I assume comes from the power converter? I think that power converter needs replaced because the battery in the rv will not charge. Do you think this is the case? Its also possible that maybe the battery isn't strong enough? Do you know how I would test?
Thank you for your help!
I'm not getting voltage on the yellow/blue wires as described around about 3:45. Is there a way to completely bypass the thermostat to see if the thermostat is definitely the problem?
Yeah you could use a wire to jump power to the yellow wire from the red wire.
@@rvrepairwoman You're fucking amazing! Now I have verified that its the thermostat and can replace it myself! Thank you so much!
Do you have a patreon or other tip/donation thing?
Hi Emily I sent my email in to subscribe but haven’t received anything or a confirmation?
Thanks and Keep killing it!
Let me check my email service when I get back to my office! I'm still figuring out all the ins and outs of the technical side of things here.
Help! My thermostat looks nothing like the one in the video. It is a dometic single zone thermostat, and it only has 3 wires- red, white, and blue. I've searched all over the internet and can't find anything to tell me which one goes to the compressor or how to test it.
As I say towards the end of the video, those thermostats aren’t very testable. Two of those wires are for power and the third is a communication wire that does all of the signal for everything. If the thermostat is turning on then it’s getting power. And Dometic thermostat will usually throw an E1 error if there is a communication problem. So unless the thermostat is throwing that error it’s most likely not your problem.
@@rvrepairwoman Ah, I stopped before the end when I realized my thermostat was so different. Thank you for the reply!
I'm in Texas sweating my arse off my fridge doesn't worked nor dose my thermostat and I have followed your videos and have been replacing parts out the arse and still nothing. I don't have the 1200 bucks for a repair man