On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 12:51:36 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 05:35:12 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

I've never seen any study
of what the power actually looks like and what all problems people
encounter.

Now you have. This is the wave form of a cheap 5.5kw Briggs generator
with about 98% load on it.

http://gfretwell.com/Propaneproject/Waveform.jpg

Looks mighty fine to me.



This shoots the hell out of the theory that you need to derate the
generator because you are running on propane ... at least the 5.5
Briggs anyway. Maybe they just oversized the engine tho.
http://gfretwell.com/Propaneproject/Onpropane.jpg

That is 5402 watts. Over 98% of rating.

I see it's only 230V though. With gas would you have 240V? That
would be another 4%. like you imply, it could vary from generator to
generator too.