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jcpainter
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May 18, 2013

Built-in Onan Generator - inverter compatibility

As we were ending our "snow birding" stay in Florida this year, we had Camping World install a Cummins Onan Marquis Gold 5500 generator and a 2000 watt Nature Power pure sine wave inverter/charger. ...
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Salvo
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May 18, 2013
IIRC Wayne's Microlite does not provide clean power to his PD converter. That gen does not provide pure sine waves. The PD does not function well in that environment.

The Marquis Gold manual states it has digital voltage regulation. Sounds that it may not be pure sine wave. I would connect an oscilloscope to the loaded ac to verify waveform.

Sal

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