Refrigerator Problems
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southfork
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All of the power outages here in California has everyone buying Gen sets I've heard of a lot of problems with mother boards in refrigerators . What's going on here to small of generator ?
24 solar world 285 watt panels with 24 Enphase 250 s ground mount grid tied .
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Fridges can be a tough load on smaller generators, which can have pretty wide variations in voltage etc to begin with.
Pity there aren't more inverter type fridges available in US/Canada. With much lower startup loading, they'd be more generator friendly. I don't know if this is the issue, but brown-outs are hard on loads.
Off-grid.
Main daytime system ~4kw panels into 2xMNClassic150 370ah 48v bank 2xOutback 3548 inverter 120v + 240v autotransformer
Night system ~1kw panels into 1xMNClassic150 700ah 12v bank morningstar 300w inverter -
Ran my in-laws' home for several days on a Honda eu2000i with a extended runtime fuel cap and 5 gallon gas can (something like 2-3 gallons per day) because of wild fire warning power shut down. 2x "modern" (computer based) refrigerators plus a garage freezer, a 1/3rd HP fish pond pump, pond air compressor, and a few other small things around the home...
Genset was new in box (bought 6+ years ago for emergency backup).... At first, had to run with ECO mode switch off... But after a day running (and adding pond water pump), could run with ECO mode one just fine (originally would stall when hit with fridge compressor load).
No problems.
A Honda eu2200i (new version), or eu3000i should run everything (within reason) just fine.
-BillNear San Francisco California: 3.5kWatt Grid Tied Solar power system+small backup genset -
We run our LG 19 Cu ft side by side fridge (purchased from Lowes Canada), bottom freezer Inverter Fridge on our Ryobi 700 Watt propane generator no problem at all (also a gazillion LED lights)
Offgrid in cloudy PNW
MacGyver'ed museum collection of panels, castoff batteries and generators - ready for state of art system install .... parade of surviving and dead generators: H650, Ryobi 900, Briggs and Scrap Iron 2000, H2200, H3000, Kubota 3500, Kubota 4500, Onan 7500
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Graham Parkinson said:We run our LG 19 Cu ft side by side fridge (purchased from Lowes Canada), bottom freezer Inverter Fridge on our Ryobi 700 Watt propane generator no problem at all (also a gazillion LED lights)
24 solar world 285 watt panels with 24 Enphase 250 s ground mount grid tied .
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