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Found this here: http://www.outbackers.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10288 Here is a cut and paste from the above post. j1mfrog summed it all up. To save your search time. He writes, Sorry the pictures below are so small, I don't know how to make them show up big. They are in my Gallery...

More info this guy has hooked up a 1,000 a 1,000 and a 2,000 and says works great and you can turn one off after you get past startup amps Its a long video so a skipped through it but appears to be just wires, nothing more. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K2YDNWG/?tag=pfamazon01-20 is a...

Hello, http://www.powerequipmentdirect.com/Reliance-Controls-GPK30RV/p1893.html Reliance Controls Sidewinder™ Parallel Power RV Cables is an example of this. That one is universal. Honda makes same thing for their invertor generators, plug two 2,000 watt together to get 4,000 watts...

We built the Dimmer switch box yesterday and unfortunately after about 1/8 rotation it tripped the generator. Same as barely pulling the trigger on the drill. So maybe it is an inrush issue. We did get the lower amp Hitachi drill and it does work with the continuous 700 watt invertor...

Update: Good news. It is not just the inrush issue. We tested with various power tools, it handles 6 amps or 660 watts as is. So the Hitachi 620 watt will be fine. Still will try the other things, as it would be nice to have a setup to handle anything up to about 1000 watts on the 700...

Thank you all. I am 100 miles from shop, my partner who is close to it has been busy building product, but should get to it soon. He has a pulse device he thinks might work too. It is used in machinery to reduce speed but retain about 80% of motor torque, think it pulses the power on and off...

Hi Jim we will try CFL, have tried other things. As mentioned we will try a 5.5 or so drill/power tool. Its at the shop, may be tommorow before we know. Gen is cheap but highly rated, people love em. Thanks

Also, in terms of variable speed drill, we tried it as slow as possible and it tripped. No damage, just have to restart it, so some feedback thing that kills engine. Had even thought about dimmer too, but after watching video with a drill, shows empirically it likely would work.

Aha, like that one. Found out the gen is 800 max 700 continuous so since drill is 760 can not get away wide open. But your concept is what was thinking should be possible for startup. If it does not solve the problem for the Bosch drill. It will solve it for let's say 699 watt or less tools...

Interesting. I just came back after a day away. Another possible simple solution is Hitachi makes a 5.4amp 620 amp SDS drill for $60 recon. We are going to try to find a 5.5 amp or so power tool to test to see if it trips. Will check out your idea. and have thought of the resistor...

Thanks Jim, Yea 2-stroke and very finicky. Thank you for advice. Was hoping for a cheaper way to "choke" it. The 4stroke inverter superior in every way, except not tripping. If I were to bypass whatever is telling the engine to kill, what do you think would happen? Damage? The...

Ah, found out it is 700 watts continuous and 800w surge. So I have to reduce the watts pulled or let the gen just put out 700watts.

Hi, I found a great generator, Earthquake 800 watt inverter style that is quiet and runs 14 hours on a gallon. BUT the Bosch SDS drill kills the engine, even if you barely pull the trigger. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FL89I2W/?tag=pfamazon01-20 I have a 750 watt inverter I hook up to 12V...

Thanks, I am already on work another direction, so no longer needed, but appreciate it.

Yes, That was first thing I did, and they came out slow, I excused it to being it has to push that heavy valve. Did all the math (lift and duration) and it came out about 40 fps. After that came here. Then did spring empirical speed test several ways, springs are just slow. Thanks.