Dometic A/C Penguin Fan Motor Service Kit

First two motors received were defective. Finally the third motor I received was in good shape and suitable for installation.

Product was shipped in a timely manner and arrived as expected. Took a lot of time to get this done mostly due to weather.

While the kit was complete the instructions were pretty lacking in detail and overall walkthrough of the job.

To get the motor out had to cut the shaft on both ends to be able to get to the fans which were almost impossible to remove from the shafts.

The kit should include a new clamp to use to clamp the blower fan (plastic) to the shaft, had to be very creative to get that done.

Had to completely disassemble the fan compressor housing to get the fan out to facilitate removing the fan from the shaft.

Had it all mechanically reassembled and back in the A/C when discovered a dust seal in the kit that I recalled removing when taking the unit apart that was not covered in the assembly instructions. This required removing the motor and compressor fan to install this seal.

All in all a job a fairly handy person can accomplish but time consuming and required many trips up and down the ladder to the roof of the RV.

The replacement motor came with all the parts needed and a good set of instructions. The only difficult part was getting my hand between the house coil and the fan motor housing to loosen the clamp that holds the fan onto the motor shaft. Job took about two hours including time spent clening the coils.

Motor got here timely and is now working fine. I installed this motor in a Duo therm 13.5 unit. This is not a 3 speed motor. It is two speed. When installed it would not work on HIGH COOL setting. Turns out because this is a two speed motor there is a yellow wire from the control board to the motor that is for medium speed and that wire must be removed from the board and capped.

Item got here on time and was a good fit. It now works very well. However if you are buying this to install in a Duo Therm (or maybe others) and have the CCC thermostat system you need to know this. This is a two speed motor. The control board and the stat are designed for a three speed motor. The motor will not function in HIGH COOL in that setup. The fan motor will get hot and lock up after about ten minutes. There is a yellow wire for speed 2 or medium on the control board. Remove it and it should then work. No one will tell you this and many techs have no idea unless they call Dometic.