Ryobi 2300 generator keeps overloading

CA Traveler wrote:

Also it's a MSW gen and not a PSW gen with is likely causing the TV and perhaps other equipment failures. You probably bought the wrong gen for your application.

:R

SHHH.. Don't tell any of my stupid electronics that they should not work on MSW..

Currently have 4 TVs ranging from 19" up to 50", a Dish receiver, 2 Sony Hi8mm video decks, a Sony VHS machine, one Apex DVD video recorder, A/V matrix switch 2 A/V video to hard drive PVRs, a scanner, multiple LED and CFL lights, a appliance/light timer for one of the lights, 4 desktop PCs plus monitors all backup powered via three Tripplight 1300VA MSW UPS units.

I have also run many different stereo equipment, drills and so on..

Been using MSW UPS units since the 1990s and so far, not one item I have plugged into them has dropped dead on not functioned.

In many cases, my MSW UPS units have extended the life of all of the equipment from random power failures, brown outs and high voltage spikes.

Will not make any difference whether MSW or PSW in this case so leave the MSW damages everything theory at the door.

Obviously OP mas some sort of hidden high wattage draw going on.

Typical sources for this are the converter charging batteries, water heater electric heating element is on, absorbsion fridge is seeing shore power from gen and auto changing back to shore power.

OP just needs to verify and eliminate each one of those items one at a time by turning off all of the devices and all of the breakers on the RV electrical panel.

One at a time with all known high draw devices turned off at the devices switch you simply turn on one breaker at a time.

Converter will be on one of the breakers and if the batteries are deeply discharged it can draw 800-1,000W depending on how deeply discharged the batteries are.

It is called "process of elimination"..