Newell started out using Dometic basement airs. It is my understanding that back in the 1990's Dometic's customer service was not up to what Newell wanted to see, causing the change to another brand. By the mid 1990's Newell switched to basement airs made by SCS. I understand that SCS (Fort Worth, Texas I believe) went out of business a number of years ago. Although Dometic itself is still in business, they no long make nor supply parts for the RV basement airs used by Newells in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
CruisAir, a part of the Dometic group since 2003, still makes basement airs but primarily for marine applications. CruisAir has been used in marine applications and numerous Prevosts converters for many years. Coleman provided basement AC units to RV manufacturers also. I suspect that multiple slide-outs destroyed the basement AC business in RV's. Basement airs were always more expensive than roof airs.
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