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Old 09-26-2012, 09:21 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by @thelake View Post
Currently, the big loads are three Mitsubishi heat pumps and hot water, but we’ll probably move the HW to propane when this tank goes. Whether it’s a heat pump or the hot water, we’ll go with whatever is recommended. We’re not using a sub panel, so it might make sense. Reading the manual, it may be difficult to connect the heat pumps up, it wants a thermostat cable.
@thelake;

I think you will find that your Mitsubishi Heat pumps will draw very little wattage from your generator. I just had three interior units and one outside condenser installed at my camp and we lost power a week later. I ran all three units off a small 6500 watt generator as well as everything else in the house without a problem I have a wattage meter on my generator and was blown away at how little power it took to run the heat pumps!

Dan
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