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He never starts the size of the AC unit, but I suspect it is a 3 ton unit, that uses about 3000 Watts. Full load amps is about 12-13. He states that starting amps are about 77, which would match with a LRA of 6 times the running amps.

The soft start reduced the starting Amps to 17-19 Amps.
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