air conditioner / honda 2000
Outside temperature is currently 80 degrees. here is my dilemma: i have a travel trailer with an ac on top. i dont know what size or how many amps it draws. i went outside right now to see if one hon...
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TomG2 wrote:
I would dump my e2000 in a heartbeat if I thought that it would not stand up to running at or slightly under its rated output. Honda builds overload protection into the unit and it works. Mine is nearly ten years old and still going strong.
Sure, but the key words here are "running at or slightly under its rated output" which an EU2000i certainly isn't when the A/C compressor first kicks on. Any of these roof mounted 13.5K BTU A/Cs will typically have an LRA (Locked Rotor Amp) rating that can exceed 60 amps and although it's an overload of very brief duration it's nevertheless a significant overload for which the EU2000i was never designed to sustain, with eventual damage to the inverter (coil windings and/or circuit board components) always a possibility. I never damaged mine either but that's not to say that if I had continued abusing the genset long term in this manner that it wouldn't have eventually failed. The question then is whether one is willing to chance it or not ... some are, some aren't.
