Thermo King Evolution install

I had a good experience with Tri-State Thermoking in Memphis. I had an older take-off thermo king tri-pac installed as opposed to an Evolution. I had read good reviews of Tri-State in Nashville and Memphis here but decided to go with an older unit to save money. I don't run California so I didn't need the emissions compliance of the Evolution. Tri-State has locations in Little Rock, AR Memphis, TN and Nashville, TN as well as service centers scattered about.

 

LaCrosse transport refrigeration do ours, no issues I know of. LaCrosse, WI

 

Well, roughly 575 trucks. Quite a few are the original tripac, take offs from the trade in trucks. But they also are putting on the evolutions. Ours meaning company trucks, done in our company shop but they send guys up to work on them in our shop.

 

90 day warranty on the unit... They install it and do a full service on the unit. Anything that needs to be replaced at the time of install gets changed out at that time. You don't get to pick the unit and the hours vary from 2,500 to 10,000. The one I got was a PTL take-off with 8,500 hours on it. I had to go back to get the bunk heater harness fixed because a wire broke causing the Espar heater to not ignite. The other problem it had was the unit threw an engine code which was caused by the on/off switch on the generator going bad. All problems were covered under warranty without any problems from Tri-State.

As for savings, the unit including the Espar heater was $5,800 installed. A new Evolution would have been $12,000 installed. I had the unit installed with a closed loop cooling system which was a couple of hundred dollars more, on top of the $5,800, but the coolant isn't tied into the truck cooling system so I can run the APU if the main motor goes down. Another advantage is that if the APU springs a leak it won't drain the coolant out of the big motor.

P.S.- The unit came with an 1,800 watt inverter. I ended up swapping it out for a True Sine Wave inverter due to my microwave not liking the Modified Sine Wave inverter.

 

Yup. They set our trucks up nice.