Yep, we are still here. The cornea specialist is predicting that we can leave for the central coast of California near the end of the month. The temperatures will be much cooler there.
We have always had less than the needed response from our air conditioner. Even with annual checks and re-assurances from various technicians, the cooling effect wouldn’t last all day nor be low enough to really relieve us from whatever heat was out there. Sometimes it was so bad that we sat outside in the shade to at least get some breezes to cool us.
Knowing that we were in for hot temperatures in July in Reno, we called our Reno RV repair woman. She said that she doesn’t do AC but did have some questions and suggestions. Our thermostat comes with some switches for the fan “high/low” and “auto/constant” along with the temperature adjustment. We would sometimes change the fan speed but had never changed the fan to “constant” – thinking “auto” would work best. She explained that by running the fan constant, the AC wouldn’t freeze up. Air would be constantly flowing over the coils even when the AC was no longer pumping.
What a miracle worker she is. We are now able to keep the inside temperatures at least 20 if not 25 degrees below the scorching outside 90s and even today in the 100s. We could have used this approach a lot of times in our travels over the last 4 years – Simi Valley, CA; Broadus, MT; Rapid City, SD; Marseilles, IL; etc. etc. etc.
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