Bought a 3000 watt Westinghouse inverter from Lowes for backup in case we lose power with these Arizona storms. Just enough power for the fridge and such. Can't hear the thing running at all. Runs forever on a tank of gas. Wished they made em years ago.
Those are running at 1800 rpm, four pole rotors. Not at all like the gas guzzling, two pole screaming banshees that run 3600 rpm. I had customer once who had had bought one way back when. He called me and said he thinks his new generator wasn't running fast enough. I poked my Hertz meter into it and sure nuff, 60 cycles. Good thing, he was about to try and bring up the RPM's.
Careful in Europe folks, they in some places run 50htz. and 240VAC on their outlets. You want to plug in your American device which uses 120VAC, you have to use a converter. They are cheap and readily available, even in some Airports. Don't worry the lower frequency won't really hurt it, not like a much higher frequency would. But things will run a lot slower. Especially American electric clocks, electric tools, that aren't using battery's.
