I need help understanding my solutions because I already made a mistake.
Do you know anything about soft start additions to booster pumps?
What options do I have? a. Bigger generator (expensive) b. Soft start maybe (whatever that is) c. Battery + inverter (sized to just run the motor) d. ?
Background information:
I bought a 5,500 starting watts and 4,500 running watts portable home generator but I probably bought the wrong one because it can handle everything in the house except when the water pressure booster pump surge trips the generator's 30A fast-blow circuit breaker. (The slow-blow resettable 30A fuses in the cable to the home electric meter & the 30Amp panel circuit breakers do not blow).
I can assume the surge current is too high, and the generator bogs down, and that makes the voltage shoot up and the current exceeds 30Amps momentarily (enough to always blow the generator breaker every time).
The result is that when the power goes out, everything works except the water pressure (I turn off the well pump because I have 5K gallons stored).
So I need a solution to lower the surge current of the booster pump. Obviously a bigger generator would work - but there must be something cheaper.