How Big a Gen to Run a Converter? Some Info.
EDIT: some of my earlier posts in this thread have the wrong idea. As more info came in later, things got less confusing--sort of! :) --------------------- Another look at this topic. It is n...
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Good info. Hard to know the surge allowance amount of the gen wrt the surge of the converter. I think most gens have some surge allowance. ISTR reading here that Yamaha also has a way to use their starting battery as brief additional support for surges?
Mainly we need to at least know how things would go using gen continuous VA ratings.
Anybody with a Kill-A-Watt and some other Brand converters and/or sizes in amps? So far we have WFCO 55 and PD 70 figures. I can get some PowerMax numbers when my KAW arrives next week or so, but maybe somebody already can do that? Also there is Iota and some others to check out.
I still think there might be something going on as to how to get the correct output voltage for the output watts figure. Hmmmm.
EDIT With MPPT solar controllers you do divide the output watts by the battery voltage to get the amps to the battery. So they are using the battery end of the wire pair, not the controller's end to take the voltage? So do you do the same with a converter, or go with the work the converter is doing from its higher voltage than the battery's? After all this is about the converter.
Mainly we need to at least know how things would go using gen continuous VA ratings.
Anybody with a Kill-A-Watt and some other Brand converters and/or sizes in amps? So far we have WFCO 55 and PD 70 figures. I can get some PowerMax numbers when my KAW arrives next week or so, but maybe somebody already can do that? Also there is Iota and some others to check out.
I still think there might be something going on as to how to get the correct output voltage for the output watts figure. Hmmmm.
EDIT With MPPT solar controllers you do divide the output watts by the battery voltage to get the amps to the battery. So they are using the battery end of the wire pair, not the controller's end to take the voltage? So do you do the same with a converter, or go with the work the converter is doing from its higher voltage than the battery's? After all this is about the converter.
