So now, is there anything that an RVer would have to know about running an air conditioner on a generator or if they want to add a soft start to it? So obviously off-grid

camping has become more and more popular as people have went to state parks and rural kind of areas.

So generators, solar, inverter-driven stuff has become super popular.

with fixed-speed compressors, which is mostly what your traditional air conditioners have always been, whether they're basically on or off.

Imagine it's like a car.

You're sitting in a stoplight, and you just... put the gas to the floor and take off.

And that's essentially what happens with a compressor.

Does a bigger or higher BTU rating actually make the cooling better in an RV?

... how about air condition- or refrigerators in an RV? Is that the same thing? They seem to take a lot longer to cool off, and is that, uh, is there a, a reason for that, uh, that's similar to the, you know, maybe related to being in an RV?

Yeah, I mean, the, the problem with, um, absorption is, so you're, you're using propane to heat up this essentially little boiler that needs to pressurize to, uh, cool the unit.

A lot of the heat that you're trying to get into that boiler is actually going up through the exhaust.

So the efficiencies on tho- on, on them is not great, uh, because all the heat's really going out into the atmosphere.

So with a compressor refrigerator, uh, the, the power that you're putting into it from a, from a watt standpoint is much more efficient, um, because you're transmitting that directly into cooling performance rather than most of that energy going out in the atmosphere.

So that's part of the problem.

Uh, the other side of this would be, um, the unit's ability to condense.

Talk about packing a refrigerator