Well, you're right, maybe I leaped to a conclusion there. It was in the bushes, it was Honda red. Are the contractor models red? -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) Bend, OR KG6RCR
On 11/4/2009 9:16 AM Mike S wrote: > At 11:38 AM 11/4/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote... >> We recently camped about 200 feet from an RV who had a Honda 1000 >> generator... The folk in the camper ran the generator continuously >> for their air conditioning. > > What RV A/C will run on 900W of power (the Honda EU1000i, which is the > small quiet one people are discussing, is rated 1000W peak, 900W > continuous)? > > Most RV A/Cs seem to start at around 13,500 BTU, and want close to 1500W > for continuous running, and much more when starting. (ref: Carrier - > http://www.airv.carrier.com/Files/AirV/Local/US-en/customer_service/62-11187.pdf > ) Dometic makes a 9000 BTU one, but even that wants over 1200W continuous. > > I suspect what you encountered wasn't actually one of the "super quiet" > model Hondas. People will often buy the contractor models, which are > quite noisy, because they're much cheaper. > > |
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