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Originally Posted by Mikendebbie
...What is the minimum watt rating for two identical generators to be hooked up and produce 50 amps?
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For the P4500i, Hooked together, I have no clue. Individually, the stat sheet says:
Gasoline Peak Watts 4500
Gasoline Running Watts 3700
Peak Amps at 120V 37.5 amps
Running Amps at 120V 30.8 amps
I have run both of mine together and ran everything in my camper all at once and the generators (in parallel) performed just fine. I had both AC's running, microwave, residential refrigerator, 2 televisions, electric fire place, and electric on the water heater. Nothing missed a beat. All the house lights were on, all the outside lights were on. I let it all run for about 30 minutes, fireplace fighting the air conditioners.... and then finally powered down the fire place. I let everything else run, all lights, microwave, everything for a good hour. Generators did great.
No clue what minimum and maximum are combined, all I know is, they worked for what I needed.
I also tried one generator only (30 amp), and it performed identical to hooking up to 30 amp service. Power management is a must. When I turned on both AC's at the same time, the generator continued to run, but the power tripped. I had to push the reset button to get the electric flowing again. I found it interesting the built in breaker tripped at the generator, but the generator continued running.
At 50% load, these generators are suppose to run 15 hours on 1 tank of gas (3.4 gallon).
Hope this helps.