Which Generator? Need Your Opinions
Now that the Cyclone is gone, we don't have an onboard generator. The Work & Play is a TT so its 30A. This summer, we've been using a mammoth generator: this NorthStar. Obviously, power is not a co...
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It is good to have a little bit of headroom. The A/C compressor will briefly want 60 or so locked rotor amps, and this can drive even a 3000 watt generator into overload sometimes. Some factors help or hurt, such as flipping the breaker to the RV converter, having a hard start cap, using a high quality fuel in the generator, and so on. A pair of Honda twins gives you 3500 watts (not sustained), which is enough room to get almost all 15k BTU A/Cs up and running, even at full head pressure.
