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Old 13-06-2011, 08:32 AM
Hagar (Doug)
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I have no doubts the new honda or even the chineese copies will do the job quite adequately.

Claims that they produce better quality power than the mains, though, has to be a questionable claim. It is all dependant on the rating of the generator, its loading against maximum load and the rotating mass of the generator.

When the loading of a small generator nears the full rated load of the generator it can not possibly handle even a small surge or load increase as well as the mains system which has thousands of kilometers of overhead head cable and thousands of tons of rotating mass designed around supplying energy at a frequency that is very very stable and held within very tight tollerances.

If your home is at the end of a single conductor supply then some load fluctuations and deviation from stated levels is to be expected but your average domestic supply in a metro area will always be quite stable.

Believe it or not.
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