Generator use
I have used my generator intermittently a lot in the past couple of years, but next week, I will need to use it for about 65 -70 hours, non-stop. I know generators are made to be used, but I just want...
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MitchF150 wrote:
Holly gas consumption Batman! .4 gal an hour.... I ran my Honda 3000i gen hooked up to my house thru a gen switch to run my 2 residential fridges, most lights, computer, tv, microwave and such for about 36 hours during a power outage and it used a whopping 5 gallons of gas...
Huuuuuuhhh???
A 0.4 gallons per hour rate to use a portion of our built-in Onan generator's 33 amps at 120 volts to continuously power our RV's air conditioner during mid-day sun/heat/humidity isn't bad at all - that is assuming that the A/C is continuously running - which it isn't because it cycles ON/OFF depending upon the outside temperatures and the inside temperature that you have it set at.
I'll bet your EU3000i would use gas about at about the same rate (maybe at even a higher rate because it's auto throttle control allows it's RPM to exceed Onan's steady 3600 RPM) to keep the interior of an RV in the sun at around at, say, 75 degrees and 55% humidity in Houston in the summer during the full sun part of the day.
Remember ..... even though an Onan RV generator runs at 3600 RPM all the time .... it's average fuel consumption varies up or down depending upon it's average load while it is spinning at those 3600 RPM. I believe that Honda's portable inverter generators can rotate somewhere above 4000 RPM when they're hit with heavy current demands.
