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by zo1 877 days ago
How much electricity do you use? I have a low range inverter (5KW) and it can give me 4.5kw sustained power from my battery and as much as I want from the grid because it acts as a pass through. At 220V that's 20Amps, or 40A I guess with your American 110V supply.

Add another battery and bigger inverter and you can double that. Unless you've got a kiln or perpetually running hot water heating, I'm left baffled.

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According to https://www.reddit.com/r/Generator/comments/15uy9dw/ac_start... an AC can require 79A on startup.

Though apparently there is a thing called a "softstart" that can be installed to mitigate this.

I don't actually know anything about this stuff. I just watch youtube videos.