Champion 3500 watt inverter
Since CW has dropped the price $300.00 thru June 19, considering a purchase. Does anyone here have any experience with this unit. Looks like it will be plenty of power for most of the RV needs, including 15000 ac unit.
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bowl2764 wrote:
Yes my mistake "Champion 3500 watt inverter generator".
Oh, ok. That makes more sense.
Jerry Parr- I think that would be a great generator! Many people were happy with the 3100 older version. The 3500 is fairly new, so not many reviews on this forum yet. I wonder if they might discontinue the 3100, since not a big difference between the two. It seems the 3500 is just more power, that will most likely handle 15K AC, under most conditions.
Might be some good sales coming on the old 3100?
Jerry LIKE2BUILD wrote:
Perhaps OP needs to download the spec sheet or worse, the schematic.
If the output is divided among all the other 120V receptacles you might find the amperage available to the TT-30R receptacle is less than needed. At 120V, 3200 watts provides 27 amps.
It's a stretch to think they'd put a 30a socket on there and not provide full power to it.bowl2764 wrote:
Yes my mistake "Champion 3500 watt inverter generator".
Possibly. If all 3200 watts are available to the hot leg of the TT-30R receptacle you most likely can. If the output is divided among all the other 120V receptacles you might find the amperage available to the TT-30R receptacle is less than needed. At 120V, 3200 watts provides 27 amps.
Case in point: I got a great deal on a Generac 3250 a couple years ago. It was listed as 3750W start up, 3250W running. I thought that should be plenty to run the A/C or alternatively the microwave. As it turns out the genny kept overloading and kicked out. What I found was that model being a 120/240 volt model split it's amperage between the two hot legs. So, out of the total 27 amps that were generated, only 13.5 amps was available to each 120 volt circuit. So, under heavy load it couldn't run my A/C.
Granted, the Generac model wasn't RV specific but if I had done a little more research I would have found that discrepancy and looked for a genset that delivered enough amps on the 120V receptacle.
KJ- Yes my mistake "Champion 3500 watt inverter generator".
Mandalay Parr wrote:
He means 'inverter generator'. Champion doesn't make inverters.
I don't think running an Air Conditioner off of an inverter is very practical.- I don't think running an Air Conditioner off of an inverter is very practical.
It would take a HUGE bank of batteries.
Better to use a generator.
My microwave draws about 200amps DC off the inverter. The ac would be about the same or more. - ..
