Climate Control Panel getting hot
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Heel & Toe
Joined: Jan 2019
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From: Victoria, Australia
Climate Control Panel getting hot
HI Guys, Merv from Australia here, about 6K into our USA road trip, about to start the Blue Ridge Parkway and notice the climate control panel getting hot. Everything still working, panel brightness/fan speed/all controls, but ***** and panel quite hot. Not too hot to touch but worried that something behind panel is generating non-normal heat. Still hot even if controls switched off. Any help surely appreciated, don't want to cook circuitry.
Drifting
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From: Placitas NM
St. Jude Contributor '03 & '04
The climate control unit is mounted and supported but a metal frame structure that also supports the radio. Is the radio hot? Is the tunnel hot to touch? It sounds like your tunnel is generating a lot of “extra” heat. The climate control unit is a plastic box with several circuit boards, nothing that will generate the kind of heat your reporting.
Thread Starter
Heel & Toe
Joined: Jan 2019
Posts: 16
Likes: 11
From: Victoria, Australia
The climate control unit is mounted and supported but a metal frame structure that also supports the radio. Is the radio hot? Is the tunnel hot to touch? It sounds like your tunnel is generating a lot of “extra” heat. The climate control unit is a plastic box with several circuit boards, nothing that will generate the kind of heat your reporting.
