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etrailer | Installing the Coleman-Mach RV Air Conditioner Soft Start Kit

Click for more info and reviews of this Coleman-Mach RV AC Soft Start: https://www.etrailer.com/RV-AC-Soft-S... Check out some similar RV AC Soft Start options: https://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-RV_A... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-review-so... Kevin here with etrailer. And today, we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Coleman Mach Soft Start Kit for RV air conditioners. If you've ever been at a really busy campsite, you know the campground, electric typically isn't the best condition and a lot of times everyone's air conditioners are all kicking on at the same time. So it's a big power draw on the campsite's power grid. So a lot of other manufacturers have come up with different versions of soft start kits and Coleman Mach has one themselves as well. It's gonna match right up with their AC units so that way you can store energy inside of that and make that initial draw just a lot lower so you aren't having to really run your unit and the compressor as hard and have that actually run a little bit smoother so that way you can get a little bit more lifespan out of your unit. Coleman Mach does it right, they're gonna give you a bracket that's going to help you mount this up using the existing mounting holes that are already in that front plate, that's gonna cover up our unit up front here where our air actually blows down into our trailer. Now super simple on that aspect. The difficult side here is when you are wiring into your solenoids can be a little bit dangerous just because there is power sometimes already in one of those solenoids. So just make sure you are being safe. There are discharge instructions as well if you ever needed to work on the soft start, because like I said, this is gonna be holding a bunch of energy so it can help start up our AC unit. So the big thing here when it comes to wiring is gonna be just making sure that you first determine what your model number is. That's gonna be a sticker right over where the solenoid panel is so that when you pop that off, you can look right over at it, make sure that you're getting the correct instructions because the way that you're gonna wire this is going to be dependent on the specific model that you have. So if you don't have that right model number figured out, make sure that you reach out. You can reach out to us. A lot of the time I find it down inside on the bottom of our unit. So if you pull down the air distribution box and you look up the inner lip where the air blows through, there's usually a sticker on there that's gonna have your model number. So that way you don't have to get up on the roof, pull a bunch of stuff off just to figure out what you got before you buy your soft start. After that, honestly following the instructions, they did it super nice. I've done a few other soft starts in my past and these we inchesre the most clear instructions I've had out of all the different ones I've done. So really just nice job overall for them. But that being said, since you are working with high voltage stuff here, it can be a little scary, especially you don't want obviously your AC unit to have any issues. So if you just don't feel confident doing this yourself, definitely reach out, use our dealer locator and you can find a shop near you to get it professionally installed. If you are wanting do this yourself and stick around and I'll walk you through the process. So right now we are installing a Coleman Mach unit and we're gonna be installing the Coleman Mach self-start for it as well. Now since we already have the cover off our outer shroud, that black plastic that goes over this, we have all of our screws taken out of the top here, so that way we have better access to our wiring. Just makes sense to do it right now. So if you're in that mode where you're installing this, there's gonna be four screws that you'll have to take out of the shroud. And then for this you technically don't have to remove the top. I'm gonna do it just so it's easier for you guys to see at home down into here where the solenoids are. So you can see exactly what I'm doing with the wiring. But when it comes to that, there's just two screws you'll pull out of this little side panel here and the directions that are included with the kit. We will walk you through exactly how to do it and I'll also obviously show you how to do it myself with our video here. All right, so we're gonna have this bracket, it's going to mount up using the existing screws. There's gonna be one down here, one up top. We've already taken the top one out. I gotta get the bottom one out though. And then on the backside of our soft s