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    Posted: 25 July 2021 at 12:00am
Hi All

I am coordinating a music festival in a couple of months. 

The venue has offered us an 80kva gen set to power the festival. 

I am very concerned we will not be able to consistently load it hard enough to avoid glazing. We will be running my xtro punisher system which draws about 7kw when being rinsed with bass heavy music, Lighting is all LED, food trucks will not be active late in to the night, there is a second stage but it focuses on ambient music and doesn't have massive power draw. 

Am I going to destroy it if we do this? What are peoples experiences with small dynamic loads like sound systems on large generators?

Here are the specs of the generator. https://www.fredhopkinswa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/GE85-PSX-EAS.pdf

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Congrats on the festival!

My experience with gennies is limited to running a small 70 person doof. 

We had a 20kva 3ph diesel genny and only ran 2 FK1 Res4s and 2 F218s plus some Yamaha DSR booth monitors and a few lights.

Amps were Powersoft QUATTROCANALI on tops and MC2 E series on low.

Never bothered loading the gennie with some extra consistent draw and played music for 48hrs straight before needing a refuel!




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Definately looks like enough, i've run similar on a smaller one.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Earplug Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 July 2021 at 10:01am
Are you sure that it won't be loaded sufficiently? What about site lighting? Will there be any at night? Or take some 500W halogens with you and stick them on once the food trucks have shut down.


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a hot tub would be an enjoyable base load. if you start cooking people just run some more cold water into it.
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Originally posted by snowflake snowflake wrote:

a hot tub would be an enjoyable base load. if you start cooking people just run some more cold water into it.


Jacuzzi!  Lovely idea!   LOL LOL LOL


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