Microwave / Generator issues.......
I recently acquired a Honeywell (Generac) 2000 watt inverter generator which seems to be in really nice shape, (and a hell of a lot quieter than my big old Champion). The gen starts really easy, puts ...
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First, that microwave likely sucks around 12-1500 watts when running, start up is easily 2x that so I'm not surprised, a 750 watt MW can suck 1100 watts running. Where does the rest go, Well heat, transformer loss, the fan and light all suck, watts.. Something as simple as removing the light bulb may work.
Second. if the 1500 Watt inverter does not mind running it.. Well then what converter do you have.. What I am about to describe I have actually done in a campground with low voltage.
I flipped the breaker that sends power to my IN-LINE inverter but left the independent converter powered.. So the Converter (an 80 amp model) charged the batteries almost as fast as the 1100 watt draw Microwave could suck power out of 'em.
Years ago I visited an electronics parts store (my favorite kind of store) and they had a display of a power line conditioner.. The display included a dual trace oscilloscope with input and output waveforms clearly displayed, and a button you could push to dirty up the input.. and I mean DIRTY up the input.. The output remained a perfect sine wave.
The unit consisted of 3 modules.
Input module was a 3-stage converter, not at all unlike my PDI 9180 with wizard
Middle module was a 12 volt Sealed VLRA battery, likely an AGM but I did not look that close (AGM's are easier to transport, can be mounted in ways other than "This Side Up" and so on).. followed by a true Sine Wave inverter output module.
The ultimate in UPS systems I might add, in fact the only true UPS system.
(What they sell as UPS systems there is a very brief interruption in output power when it transfers, this one there would be NO break at all).
What you do when you run the converter on the generator, and let the inverter run the microwave, Is basically this system Which had a rather large price tag, comma and all, by the way.
Second. if the 1500 Watt inverter does not mind running it.. Well then what converter do you have.. What I am about to describe I have actually done in a campground with low voltage.
I flipped the breaker that sends power to my IN-LINE inverter but left the independent converter powered.. So the Converter (an 80 amp model) charged the batteries almost as fast as the 1100 watt draw Microwave could suck power out of 'em.
Years ago I visited an electronics parts store (my favorite kind of store) and they had a display of a power line conditioner.. The display included a dual trace oscilloscope with input and output waveforms clearly displayed, and a button you could push to dirty up the input.. and I mean DIRTY up the input.. The output remained a perfect sine wave.
The unit consisted of 3 modules.
Input module was a 3-stage converter, not at all unlike my PDI 9180 with wizard
Middle module was a 12 volt Sealed VLRA battery, likely an AGM but I did not look that close (AGM's are easier to transport, can be mounted in ways other than "This Side Up" and so on).. followed by a true Sine Wave inverter output module.
The ultimate in UPS systems I might add, in fact the only true UPS system.
(What they sell as UPS systems there is a very brief interruption in output power when it transfers, this one there would be NO break at all).
What you do when you run the converter on the generator, and let the inverter run the microwave, Is basically this system Which had a rather large price tag, comma and all, by the way.
