You planning on doing some picture framing out in the sticks?
Start up surges can be brutal with some electric motors, especially AC motors.
If your tools do not have a 'soft start' feature, you can use a router speed controller on almost any item to reduce the rpms and thus reduce power draw as well
When I run my tablesaw, ripping 2x4's, I like to collect the Dust in my shopvac. It also makes for a cleaner cut with the vacuum running.
Problem is that both table saw and shopvac running at once can trip the breaker and usually right at the knot in the board I am cutting. Then I've got to turn off the saw and vac, back the board out, go flip the breaker back on, and basically refeed the lumber through it again. Often I give up on the shopvac for the PITA factor of tripping the breaker, and this increases the amount of sanding required and does not give me a whole lot of clean sawdust.
. My router speed controller on the shopvac not only reduces current draw, but noise as well, and eliminates the breaker tripping and there is no need for the full suction of the shopvac on the tablesaw..
I also use the router speed control on my old made in the USA porter cable router, Angle grinders with flap sanders for shaping wood, belt sanders, and anything I want to reduce the noise of and where full power/max speed is not a requirement for the task at hand. It really has opened up a lot of possibilities, and I have used it on both my Puresine wave inverter and my MSW inverter too.
My psw inverter is only 400 watts and my angle grinder can take 500 watts and instantly trips the inverter on startup, but I can reduce speed to 9 of 10 and I basically have to try and stall the blade before it trips the inverter.
Recently I was using it on the router and was surprised just how well the bit still removed wood at much reduced speeds, and allowed much more precision when following razor lines freehand.
I really like the speed controller. You might consider one of these if your future generator struggles with any particular electrical motor. You can start it at a reduced speed and then crank it upto full.
Here is the one I use:
http://www.amazon.com/MLCS-9400-Sta...pebp=1435437639198&perid=0E0DDZSY9DCZTTTJKQQT
Some say you can just use a regular rheostat that controls ceiling fan speeds or dims incandescent lighting for much cheaper. They could certainly be right.
I've not opened my controller to see if it just such a device in a convenient package or is is a PWM type of speed controller.
