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We’ll, I finally got around to load testing the 1040 today. Hooked it up temporarily to the 300’ of 1/0 quad copper feeder I was given by the local poco that I put in 2” conduit from my house to my shop. I still need to build a lean-to to cover the genny so at the moment it doesn’t stay outside.
I got the wife to toss a load of clothes in the dryer first. That got me a 5kw load. Then she turned on the two ovens, starting on low bake then high. Went 7.5 then 9.5 KW. Ran it about 15 minutes each ramping it up to the 9.5. Let it run at 9.5 while the wife cooked a pan of brownies (I mean no need to waste the power)
Our heat pump kicked on twice during the test, spiking the generator up to 14.2 kw during startup and about 12kw during heat pump cycle. The generator didn’t hardly grunt. The aux cooling fan kicked on at 205 degrees and the set never got over 208 during the hour long run. No smoke whatsoever either.
All in all, I’m very impressed with this unit. And also brownies.
![E9E445B4-4E12-4B17-9C98-E7D36490E579.jpeg E9E445B4-4E12-4B17-9C98-E7D36490E579.jpeg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/611/611347-886938da84e948d128a46c5ce3bfeb26.jpg)
![420037BB-B645-492E-8AF4-DF957DCF74BA.jpeg 420037BB-B645-492E-8AF4-DF957DCF74BA.jpeg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/611/611348-b88a8189805c13625fbf3ad486614958.jpg)
I got the wife to toss a load of clothes in the dryer first. That got me a 5kw load. Then she turned on the two ovens, starting on low bake then high. Went 7.5 then 9.5 KW. Ran it about 15 minutes each ramping it up to the 9.5. Let it run at 9.5 while the wife cooked a pan of brownies (I mean no need to waste the power)
Our heat pump kicked on twice during the test, spiking the generator up to 14.2 kw during startup and about 12kw during heat pump cycle. The generator didn’t hardly grunt. The aux cooling fan kicked on at 205 degrees and the set never got over 208 during the hour long run. No smoke whatsoever either.
All in all, I’m very impressed with this unit. And also brownies.
![E9E445B4-4E12-4B17-9C98-E7D36490E579.jpeg E9E445B4-4E12-4B17-9C98-E7D36490E579.jpeg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/611/611347-886938da84e948d128a46c5ce3bfeb26.jpg)
![420037BB-B645-492E-8AF4-DF957DCF74BA.jpeg 420037BB-B645-492E-8AF4-DF957DCF74BA.jpeg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/611/611348-b88a8189805c13625fbf3ad486614958.jpg)