I have a Generac 20 KW here at the house and a 22KW Generac at the farm. I have Central Heat/Air in my garage and house and you never see a blink when the compressors kick on. There are times when both are running like at the present time with all of the high temperatures. Last week we had a three or so hour outage and the 20 KW never missed a beat. At the farm, which is all electric we had a 5 hour outage and the 22KW never missed a beat. They do make devices that the water heater and air will not work at the same time or at least partially from what I understand. I also have a well at the farm and we see no problems at all.
We had an Ice Storm here in W. Kentucky in 2009 and was out of power for six or seven days. We won't go through with that again. HI.. Ed.. AB4IQ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 1:30 PM To: Elecraft <[email protected]> Subject: [Elecraft] A/C "Soft Start" ... A year (two?) ago there was a discussion of whole house standby generators on this list. One of the things mentioned was "soft start" modules for A/C and other heavy current motor devices. Of course, the discussion was not pertinent to me at the time - we've been using a 6 KW portable for 10 years or more. But now the wife has decided it is time to get auto-start and capability to handle the A/C. She doesn't want to spend another weak without A/C like we've faced following both Matthew two years ago and Irma last year and doesn't want to risk that my back/neck won't act up and prevent me from rolling out/starting the old portable. Does anyone have a pointer to the A/C soft start controllers? I know our A/C (168 LRA) will certainly bog down even the biggest (22 KW) whole house unit (and going to a 30 or 50 KW just to start the A/C is not economically effective at 3 to 5 X the cost <G>). -- 73, ... Joe, W4TV ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
