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Topic: AC and Hot Water Heater

Posted By: Ron54
Subject: AC and Hot Water Heater
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 1:01pm

Can you Run the hot water heater and the AC on a generator on a 177?

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Posted By: mjlrpod
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 3:17pm

Loaded question. If you have a big enough genny, you can run both, even with h/w set to electric. If you run the h/w on propane, it will require very little electric, so a much smaller wattage is needed. If you have an easy start, you could probably run the a/c and h/w on propane, with a 2000 watt. but it would be tight. You would probably need to turn of the charging side of the converter.

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Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 3:56pm

You would need a 3.5kw generator minimum. The water heater element is 1440 watts or about 12A, the a/c is about 15-16 amps.

But why would you? You will use much more fuel converting it's energy to electricity in the generator (which is only going to be about 20% efficient) than you would just to burn propane directly in the water heater (about 80% efficient).

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Posted By: Ron54
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 9:36pm

Thanks!!

Posted By: Ron54
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 9:37pm

Thanks!