What do you mean by "took a dive"? Specifically? Do you have a roof air conditioner or a cabinet air conditioner?
Most air conditioner failures are cheap and simple to repair. As I discovered long ago on my own trailer, a repair shop would love to install a brand new unit for you, taking days or weeks and many hundreds of dollars to do it - when a $10 part and a half hour of labor would fix it. I'm talking about a start capacitor or run capacitor, one or the other of which accounts for most failures by far.
When the failure occurred, did you smell a terrible smell? Did clouds of vapor come out, either inside or outside? This a major failure, of course.
I've done the full-replacement-when-not-needed thing, which upset me a lot when I found out. And I've done the replace-the-capacitor-myself thing, which was a lot more pleasing.
Note that this is not a TM-specific issue. Most any RV service place can do it for you, either way.
Bill
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