On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:40:09 +0000, David Billington
wrote:

A glass blower I know expressed interest in my electric glass melting
furnace, he mentioned wanting one to take to events for demonstrations
and powering it from a mobile generator. Now the controller uses a
solid state relay zero crossing switching and burst firing and I imagine
the generator may not like the rapid switching from load to no load and
back. Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of this type of
application.

Take your furnace to a generator dealer and tell them you want
something that will power it. Ask them to demonstrate that it does
before you make a purchase. Don't rely on generator specifcations
alone.

I had wondered about having a dummy heater load the same as
the furnace and switching between to two so the generator saw a constant
load.


You'd be wasting fuel.