3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

ATS_Aaron wrote:

Good news, turns out I had missed something in my power management. I thought the refrigerator was turned off, but instead it was set to automatic. As soon as it saw 110 volts it tried to come on and loaded up the genny too much. With the fridge OFF the small Coleman had been able to run my A/C and my bedroom fan. It's 90 degrees outside right now. We'll see how she does this afternoon when it's 104! I can switch to a smaller fan for the bedroom to save a little load too.

Aaron

That’s good news! I have the exact same generator and have found it to be perfect for my needs. It can handle up to a 20 amp continuous load (2,400 watts) but I prefer to load it up with no more than 15 amps continuous (1,800 watts). At that load it can run all day on a tank of gas and you don’t have to worry about overheating the windings in the generator core. I use mine for hurricane backup power and I run two 8,000 BTU window A/C units (660 watts each), a refrigerator/freezer (180 watts), a big screen TV (200 watts) and a few LED lights (50 to 100 watts). Each of the A/C units draw a surge of 1,980 watts when the compressor locks on and the generator can handle it without any problem. The surge on the refrigerator/freezer is 1,050 watts and is not a problem.

I started out using a Power Max 3500 generator but found it was a little too big although I still retain the Power Max as a backup.