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hey lucky, almost everything that can be purchased by the average consumer is overrated or overstated somehow. all marketing bs that i find irritating. i got a feel for pf now and how that all works. my main confusion originally was the ammeter gauge. i could still be wrong but after the...

this has been a very educational thread. thanks again to 3jim and steely

Wow this is some heavy stuff lol. Funny, i worked at a large yacht co for about 7 years as an assistant to the elec engineer and i dont ever remember any of this ever coming up even when dealing with the generators on the boats. Thanks for yhe link jim. Later tonight when im done work ill give...

Hey thanks steely for taking the time to explain all that!!

Thats a super explaination steely. That makes it easier to understand what is happening there. Not to drag this out but i find this interesting. Concerning the meter, say the pf is not 1 and the load is wasting power. The gen has to put out more to make the load operate which in turn uses up...

Thanks Jim

That is some really good info Jim. Thanks to you and steely for sharing. I'll have to do a little reading now on pf to educate myself a little more on it. So another question, is the ammeter on the gen just a regular analog ammeter like the clamp on one i have with a gauge face printed in % of...

thats interesting. You would think if there was say 45 amps on the legs that the meter would read the same no matter what its powering. Im not to bad with elec but never had to deal with pf or alot of elec theory.

Ok so basically what your saying is depending on what is drawing the power it will make a difference in how accurate the ammeter on the gen reads?

Ok i picked up a clamp on meter. Its not a real high dollar one and varies a bit depending i on the location of the cable through the loop but assuming this thing is correct, average its giving me a reading of about 55amps and its showing only 95% load on the meter on the generator. If my calc...

Haha i know i know!! Ive always done good with my trusty fluke dmm .....until i started messing with generators lol.

Yeah ill dig up an ammeter maybe tomorrow and check it out.

Yes the lights are running on 120 jim. They are pretty well balanced on each leg in my main panel. Yes i need i get ahold of a clamp on ammeter to check the load to be absolutely sure. Overall it just seems like alot of stuff running. More than a 90% load and enough to where i dont think its and...

so we had a real nice day today. fired up the 003 because i wanted to run it for a couple hours under a higher load and i really wanted to see what it could do at its max. gen is running 1ph 240v. i messed with it adding and removing loads from my shop. i first fired up my compressor and put...