Generator won't start camper air conditioner
Year old Bullet camper, AC General Electric unit lists three model numbers, with a square the manufacturer was supposed to mark the appropriate square, but didn't. It draws 13.2 amps running load whic...
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CA Traveler wrote:
Motors and especially heavier duty motors can draw substantial amps during startup. I just bought a 3,200 watt rated inverter gen with a 4,000 watt peak. I would not expect a problem with one A/C starting, 2 at the same time could be a problem. Will do some testing with the RV A/Cs because I want to know. I don't expect any issue with it's intended application of 2 household refers.
I'm intimately familiar with extra load starting motors, Air Conditioning tends to be worse than other loads. This generator claims to handle starting load twice that of full load amps. I hoped that meant a struggle to start, it'd take a second to get up to speed. It seems with more experimenting to sometimes manage to start the load. I'm leaning toward installing the soft start.
