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mlts22
Oct 29, 2013Explorer
My Roadtrek wrote:
There's no way a 2500 watt gen-set will start a 13,500 BTU AC. Because of the start up power a 3000 watt gen-set will be needed, or maybe the newer Yami 2800.
You can figure pretty close to the size generator needed by doubling the BTU's
I'm curious about that too. Both the Winnebago Travato and this unit have 13,500 BTU air conditioning units, coupled with the small Onan generator. I assume (and we all know what ass-u-me means), that these are designed to run the A/C while the onboard genset is going, but I might be wrong.
I hope I am not wrong, but who knows... I really don't want to haul around my 3000 watt Yamaha, or upgrade to a 4500 watt genset and have it live on a hitch mounted cargo rack. All this just to handle the A/C's locked rotor amps.
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