Can a stand-alone generator be used to power an ER1200 electrolyzer?
A. Officially: No. The ERXXXX WaterTorches are designed to work on worldwide Utility Grid Standards and will work absolutely reliably with a wide range of voltage and frequency input when plugged into Utility Grid power. The ERXXXX WaterTorches are designed for maximum efficiency and one of the design efficiency features makes them incompatible with most ‘stand-alone’ electrical generators. The ERXXXX WaterTorches are either full ON or full OFF. Which means that they are drawing full load (say 21 Amps) on the generator (which is fine) and then they are full OFF (drawing 0 amps). This may happen hundreds of times a second and most electrical generators CANNOT react this quickly. There is an inertia of fuel flow and the engine governor cannot slow the engine down fast enough. The result is usually very high voltage spikes that damage electrical components in the ERXXXX WaterTorch. Unofficially: If you run a continuous resistive load of at least 500 watts on the generator, in parallel wit
