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jcpainter
Explorer
May 18, 2013

Built-in Onan Generator - inverter compatibility

As we were ending our "snow birding" stay in Florida this year, we had Camping World install a Cummins Onan Marquis Gold 5500 generator and a 2000 watt Nature Power pure sine wave inverter/charger. ...
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time2roll
Nomad
May 18, 2013
Yes it is sine wave. Although the wave form might get a bit distorted under load. This may reduce maximum charging power when charging batteries but should not be an issue generally.

All generators that use a rotating armature are sine wave. The sine wave is a natural result during power generation.

The only way to have MSW would be an inverter generator that uses a MSW inverter to create the wave form. Kipor is the only one that I know that has such a model.

What is the real issue again?

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