Originally Posted by
windyacres
Presently have a Dayton 14 inch blower on a 3x10 ,it draws18 amps at 120 volts. My operation is going to bush on a 8 x20 mobile sugarhouse. There is only a small generator ,3500 watts 120 240. I am going to order 2 Jacuzzi air blowers ,plumbed them in tandem. I will start one at a time .They draw 4 amps/@240 1
000 watts. Each .will generator run both plus a couple Led lights, plus auto draw ?
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Basic calculations follow to get you close enough: 18 ampsx120 volts = 2160 watts, then the two blowers: 4 amps x 240 volts =960 watts each, x 2 = 1920 watts and add that to the 2160 yields 4080 watts, exceeding the rating of the 3500 watt generator. One question though: that 14 inch blower....does it really draw 18 amps at 120 volts?...….that seems way high....maybe should be 8 amps?
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