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Old 09-16-2019, 08:35 AM   #1
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Coleman Mack Thermostat

I want to swap out my analog thermostat for a digital unit. I have seen it discussed on the forum but can't find the link.
It looks like a simple job to me as long as I get the correct thermostat.
BTW I have a 2015 flagstaff.

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Old 09-16-2019, 08:42 AM   #2
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Youtube is your friend. Follow the Youtube directions. Not the wiring directions that come with the new T-stat. You need a battery operated Honeywell t-stat.

here is one. Honeywell is about $30.00 cheaper than the Coleman Mack replacement. I don't use low seed either. I find it quiet with the dump vents closed.

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Old 09-16-2019, 08:52 AM   #3
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This was a wire for wire easy swap for me. My unit did not have the heat pump however, yours may.
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Old 09-16-2019, 08:57 AM   #4
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If you want to stay with a Coleman you can get this one it's a wire for wire switch over very easy to do. This is the one I purchased and it works great.
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Old 09-16-2019, 11:21 AM   #5
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Coleman thermostat

Thanks. Coleman unit on the way.
I decided to install the Coleman because I do use the hi /lo function at night.
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Old 09-16-2019, 03:56 PM   #6
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If you want to stay with a Coleman you can get this one it's a wire for wire switch over very easy to do. This is the one I purchased and it works great.
That's the one. Did it ourselves recently. Like Larry said- YouTube. For everything!
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Old 09-19-2019, 08:55 AM   #7
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I have swapped the thermostat with this exact one on our last 2 trailers, works so much better and much less variance in temps. One member on the forum suggested that while you have the old thermostat removed fill the cavity in the wall with a bit of fiberglass insulation. The wall cavities, depending where your thermostat is located, can get very warm or cold depending on time of year. Just feel inside your cupboards on a very hot day to see how warm it is there. The trapped heat or cold in that wall coming from the sizeable hole they sometimes make to run the wiring, could fool your thermostat's ability to read ambient air temps, thereby throwing it off. Made sense to me so I did just that. Anything to help the thermostat be as accurate as possible just helps with making the trailer more comfortable. Thermostat you ordered is much better than the factory one and has a much smaller temperature variance for cycling.
You may also want to tape the wires together once the old one is removed to prevent any wires from slipping down the hole in the wall.
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Old 09-21-2019, 12:20 PM   #8
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Can these be set to not run for, say, two weeks and then come on? We use our rv every other weekend and would like to have it cool when we get here, but we don't have wifi here.
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Not the one pictured in the previous post. It's not programmable, It's simply a digital thermostat with a much smaller variance in temps for cycling on an off then the factory installed analog thermostat.
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If you want to stay with a Coleman you can get this one it's a wire for wire switch over very easy to do. This is the one I purchased and it works great.

I have a 2019 2109S and switched out the Analog stat for a Coleman Mack digital. While removing the old stat from the wall I was pulling the wires and the red one came out not hooked up. Hooked all others color for color but there was a brown one coming from the wall that had a connector on it but no other wire. Stat did not work until I hooked the red to the brown and then it worked. I noticed that all others who have traded the Analog for Digital have not mentioned this. Wondering?
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I have a 2019 2109S and switched out the Analog stat for a Coleman Mack digital. While removing the old stat from the wall I was pulling the wires and the red one came out not hooked up. Hooked all others color for color but there was a brown one coming from the wall that had a connector on it but no other wire. Stat did not work until I hooked the red to the brown and then it worked. I noticed that all others who have traded the Analog for Digital have not mentioned this. Wondering?
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I took a pic of my wires before making my swap. Here is what I had...
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I have a 2019 2109S and switched out the Analog stat for a Coleman Mack digital. While removing the old stat from the wall I was pulling the wires and the red one came out not hooked up. Hooked all others color for color but there was a brown one coming from the wall that had a connector on it but no other wire. Stat did not work until I hooked the red to the brown and then it worked. I noticed that all others who have traded the Analog for Digital have not mentioned this. Wondering?


Sometimes they use two different colors of wire, I would think that your brown was long enough to supply the 12 volt so they didn’t connect the red just used the brown, as you can see Sailor Sams photo his brown was hooked to the red. Everyone should do as Sam did before removing any wires to take a picture. No one should ever trust normal color codes, you never know how these people spliced something in. It’s good that you figured it out, most times they don’t do that, but as you can see they did do it on Sams. Hard to say what happened the red might have always been hooked to the brown and with a bad connection it could have pulled out when taking the old stat off I have seen alot of bad crimps also. We had a whole thread that talked about bad crimps and connectors that come out of the factory about a year or two ago.
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Thanks, because the red one was not connected when I pulled the wires out of the wall it must have come loose on the way out. The other connections were not the greatest either as I pulled two other stat wires out of the connectors with just a slight tug. After connecting the red and brown together all worked great.Thanks for your reply and the pics
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Old 11-24-2019, 09:53 PM   #15
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You could use a volt meter to check to see if the brown wire has voltage before hooking thermostat.
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