Honda 2000i VS Dometic 13,500 Air Conditioner w/ Micro-Air EasyStart

My new Wolf Pup travel trailer came with a Dometic 13,500 BTU rooftop air conditioner.

The Honda 2000i I had been using with the 9,000 BTU window unit on my van would not get the Pup's air conditioner going. My initial fix was to parallel the 2000i with a 1000i I had on hand and I had no reservations about this dual generator system - well except maybe, that it took two generators.

The trailer tray was designed to handle the 2000i The van's window unit can bee seen above the hitch mounted 2000i.

I'd heard about gizmos that would help the 2000i getting the 13,500 a/c going but was skeptical because they involved what seemed to be complicated wiring and some of them didn't have a good track record. Then I stumbled on Micro-Air EasyStart

What sold me on giving this unit a try, was the follow ups by the Micro-Air guy on several different forums. The responses were timely, sincere and informative...so I ordered one.

I'd seen the instructions and schematics on the Micro-Air web site, but when I got into my rooftop a/c I got a little nervous about where the four wires on the EasyStart were supposed to go.

I sent an email to the Micro-Air folks and got a reply in a matter of hours. This diagram helped me immensely.

 For starters, this diagram told me there is a white, blue and red wire coming from the compressor, and the compressor was the key to locating all the connections for the EasyStart. Each of these three wires is a player in the connections. I easily found the compressor because those 3 wires were bundled coming from a 'tower'.

If you follow the fat black wire coming out of the left side of the tower you will see the red, white and blue wires are just peeking out from the loom as it bends in toward the fan motor.

Now for the connections:
Trace the white wire back to the capacitor. It will be one of the white wires on top of this can.

Make sure you have the correct white wire. Now disconnect it remembering what pin it was attached to. Connect the brown wire from the EasyStart to the disconnected white wire. The instructions will say to use a butt splice but I used a male solderless terminal.

 Now connect the white EasyStart wire to the terminal that is now open from the removed traced compressor wire (that is now connected to the brown EasyStart wire).

Connect the orange EasyStart wire to the top of the same can where the red wire from the compressor is attached (as seen in the above pic).

The black wire from the EasyStart gets connected to the blue compressor wire. I used a yellow Posi-tap for this connection - it's not recommended on the instructions and doesn't follow 'code' but I wanted a way to easily remove the EasyStart and relocate it to a different air conditioner.

I then made a relief in the capacitor cover for the EasyStart wire bundle.

And to finish up, I laid the EasyStart alongside the capacitor cover and secured it with zip ties.

I may need to make a weather enclosure for the EasyStart unit, but this will do for testing and an initial road trip.

So, was all of this worthwhile? No question about it. The Micro-Air EasyStart easily gets the job done from eco-throttle.
Micro-Air EasyStart In Action


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