Will honda 2000 start a 15k BTU air conditioner?

philh wrote:

Seon wrote:
Aren't the easy start, soft start and hard start all functions the same on the start-up?

Microair easystart electronically spins up the compressor at a slower rate. I believe the hard start is a big capacitor that may or may not work.

exactly. night and day difference. with my coleman and the microair easy start PEAK inrush current to start the coleman is less than 20A for less than 2 seconds. honda 2000 in eco mode will start the AC easily with a nice smooth ramp up in generator rpm. For reference w/o the easy start I measured >50A inrush current needed to start the coleman even with a hard start cap installed. Very close to the spec'd LRA for the coleman.

The easy start has a "learn" mode where you start the AC unit something like 6 times from a "stiff" source, e.g. your house shore power. First start inrush will be near LRA, each start lowers the peak current till about the 5th or so start when it levels out at a final value, around 20A. Once you are done with the "learn" mode, your all set to start using a generator to start the AC from a generator or shore power.

Seon wrote:
Aren't the easy start, soft start and hard start all functions the same on the start-up?

Microair easystart electronically spins up the compressor at a slower rate. I believe the hard start is a big capacitor that may or may not work.

Easy start will help.
There are "slow start" systems out there that will all but eliminate the start-up surge that causes the gen to fail to start it, but these are expensive too.

This is the worst time to try to replace AC, if u can wait a few weeks it may be cool enough that you can go without AC.

ACs are not available bc of china. There might be just one little part that comes from china, but without it manufacturers cannot complete the AC build. Camper sales lots are empty because manufacturers of campers do not have AC units to put on new campers so are not shipping any campers out.

If you can get a 9200btu unit then all your power surge generator woes go away completly. I have one and had it on two campers and it cooled very well. I kept it bc it works with a small generator.

I would suggest to look on craigslist or other ads for a used AC unit. There may not be any now due to the shortage though.

We've been considering the purchase of an Easy Start. Discussed it already with our RV serviceman who will install it for us. Seems after reading feedback here that installing it would be first, try it with our Honda eu2000, then if that doesn't work, as noted here by some, then invest in the Honda eu2200. Some may say to just buy an extra generator to pigtail, but it would be more cost efficient to purchase the Easy Start along with installation and the new generator, plus would be much easier and lighter to carry along one generator. We have the option as well to install the Easy Start ourselves. There's a video out there of an installation, step by step, plus the guy who made the video said Easy Start support is super.

Not sure what you mean by the hard start, but the easy start and soft start have been used interchangeably with Easy Start being a brand name for the soft start of RV AC's with one generator.

Aren't the easy start, soft start and hard start all functions the same on the start-up?

install a microair easy start and you'll be fine on the smaller generator

Thats what I am thinking of doing to run my 15k from my Eu2000

I just came out of Idaho a couple weeks ago and ran my Carrier 15k unit off of the EU2000I. 85-90F 6,400' elevation. I did add an Micro-air easy start on the Carrier.

install a microair easy start and you'll be fine on the smaller generator

ReneeG wrote:

kellem wrote:
My 2000w will not run a 15 btu AC, kills it instantly.
It wouldn't run the 13.5 on last trailer.

Same here.

with the easy start my honda 2000 easily starts my 13.5 coleman even in eco mode. Even at 5,000ft altitude. BUT..... unless I was at near sea level it would overload in 20-30 minutes. Marginal at 3,000ft at lower temps, but above that nope.

Now a honda 2200 will start and run it all day long at 7,000ft. The 2200 has a larger engine and I suspect the engine lets it put out full power even at high altitudes w/o changing jets.

without an easy start neither the 2000 or 2200 would reliably start the AC. occasionally start it near sea level on a 80F day, but that was about it.