Non RV generators coupled to the RV prime mover

[armagdn03]

if you are accidentally hooking the cap up in series with the motor, you could see more of a power draw, since it acts like a short circuit, rather than high impedance

[gyulasun]

Just one notice here,  Jason referred to 3 phase motors in his text above and you ,mramos, reported failure with your 1 phase pump motor if I recall correctly.  So I think Jason or someone else might explain the know-how in that case as well because as I understand,  RV mode is much easier to get for 3 PH than for 1 PH motors.  The reason is 3 PH motors have 3 coils and one can serve as a coupling coil to the other two coils that are resonated as a high impedance tank circuit. This is missing in case of the 1 PH motors so maybe an (impedance) transformer is needed also.

Gyula

[armagdn03]

you dont need that calculator, I just found it by typing, "parallel LC circuit calculator" or you can look up the formula on wikipidia under the RLC or LC ressonant circuit. There are tons of sights out there, you could try searching also under "tank circuit calculator"