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hohenwald48
Oct 17, 2015Explorer
Chuck_thehammer wrote:
any given gasoline engine looses 2 to 3 percent of power per 1,000 feet in elevation ...
and also looses 1 percent of maximum RPM's per 1,000 feet of elevation...and a gen set MUST hit its running RPM.... 3,600 rpms.
results is NOT getting 110 volts or not maintaining 60 hz....
and there is the Start UP load of the AC compressor...
Inverter type generators do not rely on RPM to regulate voltage or frequency. Additionally, many non-inverter generators operate at RPMs other than 3600.
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