Found this cool extremely small portable unit that comes with various exhaust packages and supposedly uses only 3.5 amps for 4000 BTUs, cooling a 120 sq.ft. area. Still trying to figure out where to put it. Here's the link if anyone is interested: http://www.freecomac.com/products/rcs-m1000t.html
I'm giving serious thought to buying a 12,000 BTU non-traditional Supentown AC for my '72 International. This unit is rated at 9A (around 1kW). Do I need to buy a back-breaking 3kW generator to run this? It seems to this non-electrically-literate person that a smaller generator, like one of the Honda 2000's, would run it. Any comments?
... Do I need to buy a back-breaking 3kW generator to run this? It seems to this non-electrically-literate person that a smaller generator, like one of the Honda 2000's, would run it...
A smaller generator would run a 12k unit once it was started. But starting any compressor involves feeding it a serious amout of current just to get the works moving. Albeit it is a short amount of time (a second or two), an EU2000 can not cough up enough power to start the cooling cycle.
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