Originally posted by Sleepless
I have mentioned this before but did not receive much, if any, feedback from my comments. We have had several RVs in the past and have found the Coleman units to be much quieter than the Dometics. Our last trailer had a Dometic and we could always hear it cylcle on and off, it would "thump" sometimes, and the fan was very noisy. Our pod has a Coleman and we never notice when the compressor cycles on or off and the fan is very quiet compared to the Dometic. In 2001 we lived in a new motor home for 6 months while our home here in Florida was being built. We used the 2 Coleman units for both cooling and for heating, and normally did not even notice when one or both of the units units were on or off.
In the pod, we keep the Coleman running all the time, mostly to create a little "white noise" to keep our dogs distracted from outside noise and to keep them comfortable while we are on excursions. With the fan running continuously, we don't know when the compressor is running or not.
That brings up my question. Do all of you that are complaining about excessive noise have Dometic air conditioners?
Bob
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I'm in agreement with you, Bob. Now that we have the Coleman Polar Cub installed on our Pod, we have had 2 trailers with Dometics and 2 with Coleman A/C's. It's been quite some time since we have had a Dometic, but I remember them as being louder than either Coleman. Also the condenser on one Dometic managed to drip inside the trailer.
We have not used the Polar Cub extensively yet, but have been satisfied so far with both its performance and noise level. Also, now that I've towed the pod numerous times with the Polar Cub on top, it must really upset the wind drag at the back of the Pod (the Cub is longer and more squared off at the rear than the factory installed Dometics). My towing MPG has increased. In 2.5 years before the recall wing and A/C install I had one tank over 13 MPG and now twelve tanks at 13-14.4 MPG since.