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I'm sure you can find better links that the one I sent if you look around. The reason it doesn't come up all the time, and the reason you didn't hear about it at the yacht company is that in general, when you put a bunch of loads on a generator, together they'll probably average something in...

The waste comes from things like resistive loss in the wiring, which is proportional to the current, whether the PF is 1 or not. If the PF were zero, you could have the full rated current flowing, and measure the rated voltage, without any power transferred to the load. A low power factor...

It's an analog ammeter that uses a current transformer in the generator output to provide a signal to the meter that's proportional to the main output current. Current transformers usually have very few turns of big wire on the primary, and in many cases are just one turn made by passing the...

It will. The problem is when the current and voltage are not in phase you have a non unity power factor, and the actual power transferred is not found by simply multiplying volts x amps, but is less than that. This means the meter would read higher than you would expect for a given % real...

I had assumed otherwise, but you're right, that's what the -12 manual says:

72 amps X 240 volts = 17,280 watts = 170% of rating. Are your lamps running on 240V? If they're running on 120, you'll need one on each of the two 120V legs to provide the load at 240. Also, you need to check the load with some kind of ammeter of known accuracy to verify it. Just because the...