AC easy start.

philh wrote:

grizz272 wrote:
Looks like the Micro-air Easy Start is what I am looking for.

Make sure you order the installation kit with it.

I plan to.

grizz272 wrote:
Looks like the Micro-air Easy Start is what I am looking for.

Make sure you order the installation kit with it.

Looks like the Micro-air Easy Start is what I am looking for.

The Micro-air Easy Start reduces the A/C unit compressor LRA (locked rotor amperage) that draws a huge amount of power on start-up that smaller generators cannot produce.

Once the A/C unit is running, the power draw greatly decreases.

A quick Youtube video explains this-

https://youtu.be/rCjFBhDy9QI

Westinghouse 2500 watt, tripped the breaker and would not run my 15k A/C

Added MicroAire EZ-Start, and it runs it fine.

Make sure you order the installation kit, I failed to and it make it a bit more time consuming to install

My 15,000 AC runs well on my Honda 2000 generator ( which is 6 yrs.old )since I installed the Microaire Easy Start. Don't remember AC mfg or model but it came on Montana HC 2014.

ksg5000 wrote:
If your talking about a Hard Start Capacitor I use a Supco spp6.

The soft starter he's looking for slowly brings it up to speed rather than "throwing it across the line" with the corresponding dip in voltage we all notice when the lights dim.

As stated, it will start and run. The two stage way is better than the whole draw. But the 2200 is going to run at the highest point on its spectrum and will over tax the generator. I would suspect you could run it to damage in an hour or two, if that. Get a 3 or 4 k generator to do this. A second 2200i will set you back $1,000-1,200. And you get 4400 with options. A broken 2200i will just cost you the same and leave you without.

The issue maybe your generator. Reasons they got two Honda's, lol.

I had a genny with start up at 4,000 and drops to 3,500 on steady run where my a/c draws 2,000.

And yet it still trips and more frequently when it's running on oxygen-thin high elevation.

Sorry, I'm a layman especially when it comes to electricity.
QUESTION: Would it not be just as easy to start up as follows
1- turn your AC Temp knob all the way to a point where the ambient temperature would not trigger the AC to run. i.e. if the ambient temperature was 70 then turn the AC to 80 degrees then
2- start your AC fan only... wait a few minutes with the fan only running
3- then turn your temperature knob down until the AC kicks in.
This way you have a two stage draw on the generator, would that work????
GPG