Kill-a-Watt & 1986 Onan 4.0 BFA
Good afternoon, So the other day I plugged the KAW into a Rat Shack MSW inverter and got something like 135 volts. Of course my cheap meters were reading between 90 and 100, so I thought it should...
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Gale Hawkins wrote:
Ours read well from grid or our 5000 Kohler Confidant. What load were you running? If it is normal (125v or less) with the AC running you should be fine.
With A/C running, it shows more like 127v or so. But also 60 hz and 1.0 power factor.
I had posted something about my proud generator tuning a week or 2 ago. The Kill-a-Watt pretty well shows steady voltage until I max out the load. Then it actually climbs above 130... which doesn't thrill me. But I virtually never need to run that kind of load, i.e. the A/C and electric heater on at the same time.
The KAW also shows a very steady frequency between 59.9 and 60.1, again, regardless of load. So if the KAW is accurate, then the genny is performing pretty dang well.
