Our air conditioner worked all weekend on 20 amp. Are we creating any future problems?
Provided you are using your RV's power cord (a proper thick cord) with a dogbone, I think you're fine. I assume you verified it is a 20 amp circuit and not 15. Household extension cords should not be used for a number of reasons, and damaging your air conditioner due to inadequate power is only one of them.
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Just don't run any other large draw items (i.e. microwave, elec water heater) at the same time as the A/C and there shouldn't be a problem. If you have the hardwired EMS from Escape it will show you the instantaneous amps you are drawing and it will shut off power if there is a voltage below 104 (Error Code E4). I don't know exactly what the Dometic overhead A/C can tolerate, but my mini-split is ok with +/- 10% which is a low of 103.5. So the EMS will provide protection for my A/C which is the primary reason I installed it. If the Dometic doesn't like anything below 108 as I see Jon suggests then you need to be careful as the EMS won't be shutting down power early enough to prevent possible damage. I think in reality the A/C won't be damaged with short amounts of runtime between 104 and 108, otherwise there would be a lot of unhappy customers out there that had their A/C damaged during a low voltage condition in a campground when the EMS should have protected it.
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