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Ah that's what I was missing in my calculation, everything is 120v inside the RV since the 240v 50A is two separate legs of 120v unlike a house. I kept calculating the amps x 240v, that's why it didn't add up, it makes a big difference when you calculate amps times 120v to find out the wattage...

Well see that's thing, does Surge only happen only once? So If you start the AC and you have it running for 5 hours, surge only happens at he beginning of the first hour? Or every time the compressor in theA/C needs to start, it is going to Surge hence needing more energy than just running power.

I was looking at buying a generator to run two 15 000 BTU air conditioners and a lot of articles I read talk about how they use more current at startup. My question is, when they are talking about more current at startup, is it only on initial start-up or it's every time the compressor kicks on...