Generator suggestions
We have a 5th wheel setup here on our land as a temporary house while our primary home is being built. Being rural, there have been several times where we have lost power for hours at a time. Yest...
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avvidclif1 wrote:
I was looking at the 'scope picture and most look ragged on the small handheld units. I didn't notice the THD. I use a Fluke 8842 on my bench and am well aware of them. I will have to look more closely at the design of the Onan 5500 as I thought it was an AC generator but it appears to be an inverter. I know the older one I had was AC, commutator rings and all. If that's typical of the 5500 Onan needs to do a little more work.
AFAIK, all the Onan on-board gensets are straight generators, and run at a constant speed. They =do= make portable inverter-gensets, but they are portables like the Hondas. Never been able to figure out why they can't combine the 2. Seems a natural, to me. :h
Lyle
