on board generator

[essar]

I freely admit I have nil scientific knowledge but am cautious by nature: so here goes with stupid question of the day.
What would happen if I plugged in a Peugeot Ion charger onto a 2kw Petrol generator AC supply-- would it blow the works ?

[Grumpy-b]

Not a good idea.
1. Most generators dont deliver the stated output in a continuous usage.
2. You must use a high quality waveform, ie an Inverter generator. Poor waveform of cheap gennys has a lot of variation in voltage and a lot of spikes. I have had chargers of customers vehicles destroyed by doing this.
3. 2000w is just over 8 amps, most simple mains leads charge at 10 amps.

In conclusion, you should not consider doing this unless you have a generator with a significantly greater power output than you need (to deal with start up loads), it must have a clean waveform, ie na Inverter or large (as in huge site) generator.

DOnt expect repairs to your damaged charger to be cheap after you have tried it and failed.

[essar]

thanks for the warning ,I suspected that it would not be that simple, and have not tried it .
It is irritating however that there seems to be no simple solution to on board emergency generation.
I suppose there is no mileage in the carrying of spare capacity batteries with some sort of "throw over" switch ?
I bet that's already been tried as well.

[Grumpy-b]

80+ cells and around 300v its not an option to mess with.