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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.
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Are you a dealer for the soft start units? Ballpark cost?
I've got a 15 yo 12kw unit, will run it another couple years, but really want 20k ish.