Champion 3100 inverter genny question

We brought our new trailer home yesterday. I hooked up the Champion and fired up the 15k A/C unit. Granted, we're only about 500 feet above sea level, and it was only about 75 degrees. In Eco mode, it blipped up to about half throttle and never went any higher. It handles it well. We did have the dealer install a hard start kit, which runs about $30. I don't know how much of a difference that makes. I may be looking at the $300 kit in the near future. We spend a week every year at Lake Siskiyou, at the base of Mount Shasta. The loop we use is slowly being converted from 30 amp plugs to 15-20 amp plugs. Non-kitted 13.6k units will work on some of them, but not all. For our 15k unit to work, we would need the $300 miracle and a real miracle to go with it. We'll see if they got to our site, in late July.

Just bought a second one

Just bought a second one at costco for 599.. Ordered the parallel kit to have 5600 watts.. At 599 this is a steal....Yes, it runs our 15 with no issues at 5k feet...

Pick one up from Home Depot online for $399.00 Dual Fuel have not tried it out yet.

dfb wrote:
Costco has them on sale 599!

and the dual fuel for $850!

Costco has them on sale 599!

Champion always understates the capacity of their generators. I don't know of anyone who has pushed it to the limit. It'd be interesting to see what the actual limit is. But the 3400 watt also sells as a 3500 when purchased from a certain store, Cabela's, I think.

Yes Ron, it will handle it fine, but as others have mentioned, pay attention to the other high current items.

theoldwizard1 wrote:
Add a soft start (or is it called had-to-start) kit to your A/C.

Wiz,

Sadly a soft-start is a 400 dollar item. It wish it wasn't so...

It starts and runs them just fine and no its not iffy. I have been using to run ours in 98-104 degree temps and it runs like a champion pun intended. Most negative remarks are from those who dont have one or who don't have any experience with them they are a great generator.