Any Predator Generator reviews?
Now when my build-in Generac died and even new $350 board is not fixing it, I am researching more reasonable option. $500 inverter generator have excelent reviews and some say it runs smaller AC jus...
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2oldman wrote:Kayteg1 wrote:Or make a motor that doesn't require so much starup current.
It is kind of stupid that with all the technology nobody can make light generator that would start AC.
It's the load on the motor that sucks the amps. Electric motors pull maximum amperage at start, especially under parasitic load. The way around that is of course an easy start which is just a set of capacitors that jump start the motor, much like a single phase to 3 phase static converter. The converter does nothing but excite the T3 leg to get the motor spinning. T1 and T2 are already 220/1, it's the T3 leg that single phase won't excite.
Actually, the hot setup on a roof ac unit would be a free start (no load) compressor motor with an electromagnetic clutch that you could engage either manually or electrically, when the motor reached rated RPM. That would really drop the start amps.
Pie in the sky though. Too costly for a production ac unit.
