Question about using run/start capacitors
This is for any electricians versed in the use of load and run capacitors to help with ac surges on the genny or the inverter. I am in the middle of a teardrop build and I am trying to get away wi...
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Cajundood,
The instruments to actually capture the inrush power are not cheap or easily available.
But,
You have not given up the model number or specifics of you baby APU (genset). If it is not an inverter type, and it is rated for 1K continues, it may well start the A/C. It will grunt and complain (in native electrese), but it might just do it. The reason is simple. The mechanical inertial of the one machine boosts you though the mechanical inertial of the other.
There is also some thermal inertial (there is a real term that is less understandable) in most non-magnetic circuit breakers. I would bet dollars to donuts that the breaker in the little APU is a thermal as they are much less expensive.
So, now you get to open the documentation and try to figure out if you have a snowball's chance of making it work.
Hint, inverter thing have ZERO sense of humor of even instant overloads.
Matt
The instruments to actually capture the inrush power are not cheap or easily available.
But,
You have not given up the model number or specifics of you baby APU (genset). If it is not an inverter type, and it is rated for 1K continues, it may well start the A/C. It will grunt and complain (in native electrese), but it might just do it. The reason is simple. The mechanical inertial of the one machine boosts you though the mechanical inertial of the other.
There is also some thermal inertial (there is a real term that is less understandable) in most non-magnetic circuit breakers. I would bet dollars to donuts that the breaker in the little APU is a thermal as they are much less expensive.
So, now you get to open the documentation and try to figure out if you have a snowball's chance of making it work.
Hint, inverter thing have ZERO sense of humor of even instant overloads.
Matt
