13500 A/C on 2000 watt inverter?
My brother is having issues with a 13500 btu A/C starting while using a 2000 watt inverter. This is installed on a cake delivery van. The fan motor will turn on but not the compressor. He is using ...
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otrfun wrote: "All the Dometic and Coleman spec sheets I've seen typically show LRA's of 50 to 68 amps for their 13.5k BTU a/c's."
Yes, you are correct, for several microseconds during startup. Think about what you know! If it took 50 to 68 LRA'a to start a single 13,500 BTU A/C unit, then the smallest RV generators would be 6,000 to 8,160 watts. You know that is not true. As I previously said, under certain conditions you can run a 13,500 BTU A/C unit on a 2,000 watt genny, just not reliably without playing a bunch of load management tricks. If thats what like doing, more power to ya!
Chum lee
Yes, you are correct, for several microseconds during startup. Think about what you know! If it took 50 to 68 LRA'a to start a single 13,500 BTU A/C unit, then the smallest RV generators would be 6,000 to 8,160 watts. You know that is not true. As I previously said, under certain conditions you can run a 13,500 BTU A/C unit on a 2,000 watt genny, just not reliably without playing a bunch of load management tricks. If thats what like doing, more power to ya!
Chum lee
