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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SoundGuy wrote:
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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.
By that reasoning, no generator under 7,000 watts (60 X 120) should be used to start a motor or air conditioner. I am not privy to Honda's technology, but I suspect they have safeguards in place for even a dead short at startup. Like I said, I only use mine occasionally to run the AC and am not worried. I would not recommend it on a daily basis. There are better solutions for that. Who wants to give up converter, refrigerator, television, and microwave all the time? Not me.
