Tag: RV air conditioners
RV Daily Tips. Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Issue 1522
Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros, travel advice,...
RVelectricity – Readers’ Q and A’s from November 2020
By Mike Sokol
I'm getting a lot of interesting questions from my readers, many of which are on my RVelectricity Facebook Group. Here are a...
RVelectricity – Hughes Autoformer testing – Part 3
By Mike Sokol
Disclaimer: Hughes has not offered to pay me for this test, and I neither asked for nor received any compensation. But Hughes...
How many air conditioners does your RV have?
Remember the days when RVs only had one air conditioner (and that was only if you were lucky and it was working!)? Nowadays, some...
RV Electricity – Just Ask Mike (J.A.M.): My WAG chart on solar panels and...
By Mike Sokol
Welcome to my J.A.M. (Just Ask Mike) Session, a weekly column where I answer your basic electrical questions. If you're a newbie...
RVelectricity – Hughes Autoformer testing – Part 2
By Mike Sokol
Dear Readers,
If you subscribe to my monthly RVelectricity Newsletter you've already read the first part of my Hughes Autoformer test. If you...
RVelectricity: Hughes Autoformer testing – Part 1
By Mike Sokol
My Hughes Autoformer testing has begun. Here are details on how much additional current an air conditioner draws as the voltage goes...
RVelectricity: The rise of HRDL (rhymes with turtle)
By Mike Sokol
HRDL (the turtle), and how I can log 192,000 data points a second with 24-bit resolution
Okay, I'm going to show you the...
RVelectricity: SoftStartRV update – Yes, it really works, and here’s proof…
By Mike Sokol
Dear Readers,
Since I published my initial peak starting current data last month comparing SoftStartRV technology to stock starting capacitors, I've had hundreds...
Can your air conditioner beat the heat?
By Russ and Tiña De Maris
"Summer breeze, makes me feel fine. Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind." So sang Seals and Crofts. But...
Use your RV air conditioner in low-power situations
By Chuck Woodbury
EDITOR
(NOTE: See below the first video at the bottom for a video from Mike Sokol on October 23, on how to install...






