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Slownsy
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Jun 03, 2019

Air conditioner of generator & inverter

We have a 15000btu air conditioner and had a Honda IS3000 generator that was stolen.
I have since installed the soft start gismo sorry the name escapes me, We have also got a 3000W Magnum MSH3012 inverter with the share power ability so wondering if the Honda 2200 will be sufficient to run it, also have 600w of solar suppling max 30A and 520A of batteries. Thanks.
Frank
  • I have a smaller Victron inverter with power assist, a smaller generator, less solar and it does allow me to run my 15k air conditioner. I would think your setup would not be a problem at all.
  • It may be a bit of a struggle. Watch how long the red overload light comes on for the Magnum.

    One person put an autoformer between the generator and the power input and that made starting much more reliable.
  • Hi all thanks so far. Pianotuna by the way I forgot that when we installed the inverter we naturally had the power of but had not turned air conditioner of so when we started op inverter the air conditioner came on and ran for several minutes before we shut it off, so I can’t se why it should not be able to supply the extra power for startup, also it is the micro air soft start on it and they say it will run on 2000 ? So hope it will work with the 2200. Thanks.
    Frank.
  • micro air soft start allows the AC to run on my 2500w westinghouse generator
  • philh wrote:
    micro air soft start allows the AC to run on my 2500w westinghouse generator




    This.