Quote:
Originally Posted by red-beard
It is not always about load management. Some things take a lot of power to startup. Even with soft starts, my larger A/C unit pulls about 50 amps to start.
Without a soft start, look at the LRA number on the A/C. Multiply this by 230 and then by 70% to get the starting Watts. If your LRA IS 125 Amps, your starting Watts are 20,000 Watts!
With a softstart, that will be reduced to about 6000 Watts.
|
I wish more people understood that. Everytime we have an outage here the restart trips 2 or 3 times because people haven't turned off enough major appliances.
__________________
Si non potes inimicum tuum vincere, habeas eum amicum and ride a big blue trike.
"'Bipartisan' usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."
|