Do any of you BITOG folks have personal knowledge of or a good source for fuel use vs load on a gasoline powered inverter generator? I see specifications for run time at 25% load. I've read articles indicating that this is non-linear in the 25-50% range, meaning that the generator won't use twice the fuel when increasing the load from 25 to 50%.
So let me cut to the chase. I am helping some friends with an off grid solar application. They live four months per year in a motor home that doesn't move for those four months. They are powering everything now running a 4500 watt peak / 3700 watt continuous generator for three hours per day. Their generator has a 25% load run time of 18 hours per tank, and they are getting 9.5 hours per tank. My thoughts are that they are running at roughly 50% load based upon 9.5/18 hours. That comes down to 3700 watts x 0.5 load x 3 hours or 5500 watt-hour per day. This is my best estimate of their demands.
Could anyone knowlegeable please comment? Thanks in advance.
So let me cut to the chase. I am helping some friends with an off grid solar application. They live four months per year in a motor home that doesn't move for those four months. They are powering everything now running a 4500 watt peak / 3700 watt continuous generator for three hours per day. Their generator has a 25% load run time of 18 hours per tank, and they are getting 9.5 hours per tank. My thoughts are that they are running at roughly 50% load based upon 9.5/18 hours. That comes down to 3700 watts x 0.5 load x 3 hours or 5500 watt-hour per day. This is my best estimate of their demands.
Could anyone knowlegeable please comment? Thanks in advance.