Air Distribution Box w/ Wall-Mounted Thermostat for Advent Air RV Air Conditioners - White

Odelia was Great. she was very helpful in assisting me with what I needed She directed me to the Advent site who also helpful.
She was the first person at e trailer that gave me her direct line which I was able to call back and get the right parts that I needed.1561565

Edward

4/22/2024

It has been working fine so far..but I could not tie it into my heat cool programmable therm..but we do like the three speeds

Mike L.

5/16/2024

@Edward The Advent air distribution box is designed to work with the thermostat that's included with it. We're glad to hear that it's otherwise working well for you.

The installation of this, replacing all my original Dometic parts and wiring, is fairly straightforward, although you won't get much help from the instructions as they are written for 1st time installs. When you get to your furnace wiring, you get just one wire from the Advent thermostat, where my Dometic unit had 2 (+/- 12v). After much research and reading a few blog posts, I learned that taping off the positive 12v lead (stuff it out of the way) and connecting the negative lead to the Advent thermostat wire allowed the Suburban furnace to cycle properly. The real frustration with this is that the plastic vent cover for the distribution box assembly is too big for the opening thereby blocking air flow through the louvers, should you choose to use them (they are flush against the ceiling). Of the 6 factory pre-drilled screw holes, 4 line up with the Advent factory assembly, 2 do not. The fix for this is to just put screws into my RV fiberboard ceiling. That is a poor workaround. I believe this poor fit is a design mistake although the Advent folks believe otherwise. If you buy this packaged kit, be prepared to have to field engineer it or use your original plastic vent (in my case Dometic) if you are using the standard 14x14 opening. I give the etrailer folks high marks for trying to help, however, they only sell it. Advent imports it. I include photos to better explain this.1544767

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Kimberly was very pleasant, very polite and quite helpful with the process of ordering my A/C Unit and associated hardware for my Grand Design 5th wheel trailer.3155311

I just this week had this product installed in my RV. The labor charge was $290 and it took the worker 1 1/2 hours to put it in. It works as advertised and we are looking forward to our first camping trip coming up in the near future.
After looking over all of the parts and instructions I felt better having someone with experience tackle the job. I'm relatively handy but am also 81 years old. Time to let the youngsters take over!1777944

Going with 3.5 stars, rounding up to 4. Seems very odd that the rear two mount holes do NOT go into the frame, but rather into the ceiling of the coach. Distro box itself is soft plastic and really directs a huge amount of air along the roof and rear, not much for being able to adjust down or around.

Going from analog thermostat with 6 wires to this digital thermostat and controller with 4 wires did have me run new leads from the unit down to my furnace. Having 3 fan speeds and the smaller thermostat controller is nice. I ran the 12vdc+, 12vdc-, furnace lines down to the same lines at my furnace, pictures included may help explain. From the control box, red (box) to red (lead) to red (furnace) and blue (coach) 12VDC+...Black (box) to Black (lead) to Yellow (furnace) and White (coach) 12VDC-...Brown (box) to Yellow (lead) to Blue (furnace) thermocouple control, previously the white wire at the analog thermostat.

Otherwise, seems to do all the things that it should, looks nice and is easy to operate. This unit replaced the coleman mach unit of unknown age in my 1993 Tioga Class C1673759

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Got the air box in good time. Installation was a little tricky but it went well ac works like a charm would give 5 stars but the furnace is waiting part's at this time.3143802

I wired 120v to box... wired up thermostat..hooked up sensor for coil...flipped the breaker and nothing on thermostat..no 12v going to thermostat...got to call advent tomorrow...I'm in HVAC and never had this kind of problem.1666622

Jenny N.

9/19/2023

I reached out to Advent and they would like to speak with you directly. I will provide them with your contact details.

As far as the product, it is a very simple install and a think it will last long term. I think the plenum wall is somewhat cheap and not well thought out. My disappointment is with customer service, I was told I would not need this item when I ordered the AC and I could use my existing hardware. This bad advice turned into striping 2 of the connection bolt holes having to alter my brand new AC and then waiting on this item, blowing more of my time and paying more for shipping! The product is fine but customer service needs to be better.1748434

These people are awesome! The air distribution box came, but would not function (we had a certified RV tech installing it). We contacted etrailer.com customer support and they sent us a return shipping label and a new air distribution box (which worked great). If I need anything etrailer.com carries, you can be sure I'll buy from them again.1321797

Duke

7/8/2023

Excellent! No problems at all.

The thermostat was fine but the plastic vent cover is junk. They covered up the vent with sound deadening material so the air can't flow and if you take the sound deadening material of it makes a lot of noise. This is unacceptable in my opinion. Don't know why they would make something like this.3151988

This product was sold as a direct replacement for the Dometic but it was far from it. First of all the inside compression ring was too small so I had to make a spacer so it would seal off on the roof. The screws were 1” too short and would not reach the roof component, luckily the screws from the Dometic were the same thread so I used them. The air shield that is suppose to be used with thick roofs was too short and was suppose to be Held in place with crappy double sided tape. The grill design on the air distribution cover is so bad it disturbs the air flow so only about half of the air makes it through.
All and all I wish I’d spent the extra money and bought another Dometic.
This is the first product I’ve have bought from etrailer that has disappointed me.3156455

Great product and quick consistent service on every order from etrailer!3153204

They are awesome!! 3151397

Fast ship. Item arrived well packed and 100% correct item3154203

by: Angela 10/18/2023

The unit itself works great. We have to remove the cover when closing our slides. The cover is beautiful bigger than the original.1683360

Highly recommend 3151564

Very good service. 3146012

by: Kent07/20/2023

It has been a good unit. It is still kicking out cold air. It would be even better if it wasn't as noisy but I have yet to see any rv acts that are. The price was the main reason I went with this unit along with free shipping, couldn't be beat. Also the customer service was top notch. Thanks1630504

by: Kyle 06/24/2023

Ordered this to replace the 13.5 air conditioner I had this one has been great so far no issues definitely would recommend1608298

Great customer service, communication, super fast shipping ordered on Tuesday and received on Thursday. Both items arrived at same time, 4 days before expected delivery date.
Will continue shopping with etrailer.com. 5 stars AAA++++++1677710

Very good and easy process right through 1752153

The product quality as excellent. Installation went easy considering I knew what I was doin. If I had to rely on the directions if would have for sure been more difficult.1629331

Excellent service and fast delivery. The only reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is the unit is not 100% compatible with some Dometic units.
If you are replacing a unit that has a Dometic 3313379 control or similar with 2 furnace wires labeled y3 and y4 this will require a additional relay.
The advent system has 1 wire labeled 12 volt dc-Furnace.
The Y3 and Y4 on the Dometic are 12v dc and ground. If you put a jumper on them even with nothing else hooked up, the furnace will start.
Buy a 12 volt dc relay (either 4 or 5 terminal) at your local auto parts store for about $10.
Hook the Advent wire labeled 12 volt dc-Furnace to one side of the relay coil, and the other side of the coil to negative dc.
Hook the Y3 and Y4 wires to the normally opened terminals on the relay.
Mount the relay, and you are done. When you select furnace on the thermostat it closes the relay you added and after the normal delay (about 30 seconds), the furnace will start.
If you are familiar with wiring you shouldn't have a problem.
Hope this helps someone with a similar system.1531619

by: DrPcFix08/05/2021

Product works well but the instructions were abysmal. I bought this part right before Covid-19 stopped us all in our tracks so it sat around for a very long time before I got a chance to install it. I purchased it to upgrade by Advent AC which only had knobs to control it and no thermostat. I really don't understand how anyone would want an AC without a thermostat but that's how the AC came. First I had to run a thermostat wire -- looking at the part online I determined that I needed 4 wires for the thermostat so I bought that in advance on [resell store] for a few dollars. I drilled a hole where I wanted to mount the thermostat and fished the wire all the way to the existing AC. I removed the existing grill and "dumb" control module and then reassembled the new parts pretty much the same as they came off. I turned on the breaker and pressed the on button on the thermostat but nothing. Thinking that I did something wrong I dug out my multimeter to check for voltage at the thermostat but nothing. Back to the directions and after looking over the circuit detail I figured out that this smart control needed 12V DC to run. So I fished a 12v DC lead and connected it to the control -- now everything worked -- well almost. In putting on the cover I discovered that it would not fit because unlike the "dumb" unit which had the control board hanging down, this one needed it up. So I cut off all of the wires, turn it over and wired everthing back up. Turned the breaker on at voila, everything works and the cover fit too! One more note, the ACRG15 is for non-ducted use but the cover sent which clearly said ACRG15 on the box had the vents covered with a piece of metal and some sticky foil tape -- taking it off wasn't an issue but the manual included was also for an ACRG12 (don't know if they even make one for this one).1115294

Sierra K.

8/12/2021

Thank you for your detailed review. The ACRG12 is on the manual because it installs the same as the ACRG15.

Drpcfix

8/6/2022

Working as it should!

Great fit. No problems 1711840