Honda 3000
Will a Honda 3000 power two camper A/C units? My truck camper and my Brother's 16' trailer camper. No picture of my Brother's camper. It is a Shasta.
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zulu52 wrote:
Will a Honda 3000 power two camper A/C units? My truck camper and my Brother's 16' trailer camper.
A lot depends on the AC in the two units. Some small trailers have very low powered window type ACs that barely use any power and are 6000 btu or so. When my stock AC died on my TC, I replaced it with a 9000 btu model.
Doing the math, that's 15000btu which is about the same btu as some TCs. If not 15000, they are usually 13500.
As others have noted, startup is the hard part. On some, that startup jolt can be decreased by turning the fan on first. Besides that, unplugging the converter/charger and switching water heater, refrigerator, etc to propane will also decrease the load.
A cheap tool to check is a Kill-a-watt meter that you can buy off Amazon, or simply check to see what the ACs draw at max power. Or, just you could just try it.
