Yamaha EF1000iS Genset
I've previously owned 2 Honda EU2000i gensets, each purchased used, primarily as back up for those times each season we inevitably lose shore power while camping and may want / need to recharge the ba...
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pianotuna wrote:
1000 va may not be enough to run the furnace.
Back when I owned an EU2000i I re-wired the house furnace so I could run it directly from the genset sitting in the backyard. Max power draw measured with the furnace running was ~ 550 watts, I don't recall PF as measured with my Kill-a-Watt meter but I seem to recall VA was ~ 750 VA. The EU2000i easily handled the load, barely ran much above ECO speed, but the question remains as to whether the EF1000iS could handle this task without going into overload. :h
Right now I'm monitoring the house fridge with an energy meter that reads MAX AMPS & MAX WATTS, along with the Kill-a-Watt that reads PF ... max I've seen so far is 613 watts / 4.33 amps which would suggest a PF of ~ 85, which in turn means a VA of ~ 725 VA ... just waiting for the Kill-a-Watt to confirm this.
Our Coachmen has a WFCO 8955 converter which I suspect the EF1000iS would power without going into overload, even at the converter's maximum charge rate ... probably what fitznj is doing with his own EF1000iS. I also have a CTEK Multi US 7002 7 amp charger that I wired into the trailer because it's capable of a true 14.4 volt bulk charge rate, unlike the WFCO which never seems to go beyond ~ 13.7 volts no matter how depleted the battery may be. If the EF1000iS won't handle the WFCO it certainly would power the CTEK, though charge times would be awfully long.
As far as A/C is concerned I was able to run a variety of 13,500 BTU A/Cs with an EU2000i BUT only under limited conditions - when ambient temps hit the mid 80s F the genset increasingly went into overload. Eventually I decided I wasn't going to run any genset 12 hrs a day just so I could power an A/C so that need has really gone away for me. That said, now that the Micro-Air Easy Start Soft Starter Kit is available that would be my solution to running A/C with a 2K genset. Obviously a 1K can't handle this task anyway so the issue is moot for me, as is running the MW oven - nice to do if I could but not important enough to me to drag around a much heavier 2K genset vs the much lighter 1K.
Thanks to all who have responded so far! :B
