Ryobi 900 Watt Propane Generator
I am interested in any experience with the Ryobi 900 watt propane generator. I generally run on solar only, but am looking at something to top off the batteries after a few cloudy days. Would probabl...
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time2roll wrote:
Ran the Ryobi first time today. Really like the light weight and the propane fuel. Seemed to be as quiet as my old Honda 1000 but it has been a while since that was sold. Anyway seemed virtually the same at idle but the noise level did not seem to ramp up as much as the Honda. Runs noticeably cleaner than gasoline.
Barely came off idle to power the 20 amp charger. Ran the Xantrex XADC-40 just fine for a solid 20 minutes putting 41 amps into the battery. Xantrex is PF corrected. Then plugged in the 35 amp WFCO. Was putting 38/39 amps into the battery maybe 20 seconds before the generator cut power and illuminated the overload indicator.
Looks like I might be swapping the Xantrex back in.
41 x ?14.2? = 582w output at say 85% = 685w input and with 0.98PF = 699VA
35 x 14.4 = 504w output at say 85% = 593w input and with 0.7PF = 847VA
When the Xantrex gets the battery to 14.2 it is at the gen's 700. If the Xantrex can get the battery higher than 14.2, it will go over that 700 a little.
