Home brew hybred inverter generator set up
Home Depot had the tiny Sportsman 800/1000w inverter generator on sale for $157 right before I left Denver. Normally I'd stick to one of the big three but at that price I took the chance. I broke it i...
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landyacht318 wrote:
How to get this AC to start on a small generator without overloading it?
How about a way to make it handle the start up surge where no converter or inverter or battery need be used, and possibly eliminate 30 to 40% of conversion inefficiencies?
I don't know if this is possible, or worth the effort if it is, but I can't be the only one curious about why it might be possible, or why it is not.
Worthy of discussion?
Maybe I'm missing something here but would it not be simpler to just use any one of a number of soft starter kits designed for this purpose?
Micro-Air Easy Start Soft Starter Kit
Hyper Engineering Soft Starter Kit
I've always used a Supco SPP6 hard start cap on any A/C unit I've owned and while it does help some it doesn't ease A/C start up compressor load anywhere near as much as claimed for these soft starter kits.
