Yes noodle but you are running off a tranny down the road with plenty of back up, not a petrol motor with very limited horse power. It's not the size of the protection it's the power produced that effects start up.
noodle34,
Sep 15, 7:18am
Um no
kwaka5,
Sep 15, 7:19am
Think you'll find Noodle is right here. It's the maximum dude
noodle34,
Sep 15, 7:22am
Have you never heard a genie when load is put on it! The load is applied, the gennie slows, the load gets less as soon as the motor begins to rotate the govenor on the genie feeds the genie more fuel untill it runs happily i have run a 2.4kw 9 inch grinder off a 3kva genie for years
kwaka5,
Sep 15, 7:24am
Yup and while it's going thru the wind up stage you are stressing the electrical winding. You effectively turn it into a small heater for a while. With a grinder also you have very little load on start up. Try starting it with the disc against steel to start with as a compressor is on some load on start up. That is a given.
morrisman1,
Sep 15, 7:29am
I would imagine that the soft-start grinders are a bit kinder on the generators than traditional types. The soft start ones accelerate over about 2 seconds instead of what could be less than half a second for the normal type.
This is not a soft start grinder, we are talking about one of the cheap nasty chineese compressors arn't we! not a big belt driven compressor, big difference between the two
bjdw,
Sep 15, 8:10am
little direct drive compressor
easygoer,
Oct 27, 3:14pm
You will need a 5KVA generator petrol driven or a 3.5KVA if diesel driven
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