Generator options
I'm a fulltimer in an RV park, so I generally don't have to worry about power, but I also live in southern Florida and I'm told we will lose power quite often in the wake of a bad storm or hurricane. ...
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naturist wrote:
In any event, the need for wattage is such that the. More things you power, the less surge wattage matters. An AC requires 2,200 watts to start but only 700 watts to run,so you don't need 4,500 watts to run two ACs, a single 3,000 watt generator will do except in the u likely event both try to start in the same two or three second window of opportunity. If I'm right that 50 amp service is two 25s, then 6,000 watts is enoght to turn everything on at exactly the same time, and with a little thinking about it, the OP could probably live with a 4,500 watt generator. If you guys are right and it's two 50 amp circuits, 12,000 amps will do everything at once and he could probably make do with 7,000 watts.
Again wrong. 50a service is 2 120v 50A lines, total available is 12,000w. On 50a I can run 3 AC's, fridge, water heater, hair dryer, microwave, etc, and every light in the rv.
