Admittedly, I am an electronics neophyte, electric shop being the only class I ever failed in Junior High, there I admitted it!, So before floating this out to you experts I attempted to search the "forum" certain the question has been addressed before...couldn't find anything, so here goes.
While boondocking, rather than using the furnace we decided to use our Yahama ES2000i generator to power a small space heater to warm the coach- think we were trying to conserve the batteries. However, each time we fired up the heater the generator went into overload mode and consequently went down. By the way, little else was drawing power at the time, no lights were on, no water pump, etc. nada... This is, as I said, a very small heater, 120V, 60Hz, with current under maximum continuos draw of 12.5 amps, and power variable from 0W to 1500W (this really sounds like I know what I'm talking about, huh?, really not a clue, but reading from the heater owner's manual).
Anyway, my question: If this generator can power our home's freezer when the power went out, why would it overload with this small space heater?
While boondocking, rather than using the furnace we decided to use our Yahama ES2000i generator to power a small space heater to warm the coach- think we were trying to conserve the batteries. However, each time we fired up the heater the generator went into overload mode and consequently went down. By the way, little else was drawing power at the time, no lights were on, no water pump, etc. nada... This is, as I said, a very small heater, 120V, 60Hz, with current under maximum continuos draw of 12.5 amps, and power variable from 0W to 1500W (this really sounds like I know what I'm talking about, huh?, really not a clue, but reading from the heater owner's manual).
Anyway, my question: If this generator can power our home's freezer when the power went out, why would it overload with this small space heater?
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