Parallel 2 2200s and a 1000

burningman wrote:

You’d think the smallest one would just overload, but it doesn’t.

It's a pretty simple load sharing system. As the load goes up, the output voltage of an individual generator goes down. As the little one approaches overload, its output voltage goes down, causing it to contribute less power to the load. The voltage of the larger generators doesn't decay as much, causing them to carry more of the load. There might be a little oscillation on a load change but the system will eventually find an equilibrium.

I’ve paralleled EU1000, 2000 and 3000 sets in various combinations.
You’d think the smallest one would just overload, but it doesn’t.

Seon wrote:
It's interesting that two Honda 2200 wasn't enough to run your AC and MW. .

It can, for maybe 30 seconds, but it's a struggle. After that things get worse.

capacitor wrote:
Why not turn off the AC for the two minutes you use MW? That’s a lot of generators to haul!

You can't just start up the a/c after 2 minutes - at least not mine. It takes longer to reset - some compressor thing. And I may be using MW several times, not just all at once.

And when it's 90F and I'm cooking the rig heats up pretty fast. Nah, I want that a/c on all the time.

It's interesting that two Honda 2200 wasn't enough to run your AC and MW. But as 2oldman mentioned, by shutting down the AC for a couple of minutes should have preventing having to connect the 1k generator. But good to know the three worked like a charm, thx.

capacitor wrote:
Why not turn off the AC for the two minutes you use MW? That’s a lot of generators to haul!

Some microwaves are also convection ovens.

Why not turn off the AC for the two minutes you use MW? That’s a lot of generators to haul!

If storage/transport wasn’t an issue, good to know.