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I do carpentry work out of a storage unit and run a generator to power my tools since the voltage drops too much to start the bigger capacitor start tools. There are a few people claiming to not have any problems, but I think they're also closer to the electrical box then me since I'm right in the middle. It will run a miter saw and drills and that sort of thing, but my air compressor barely did anything when I flipped the on switch. Even the miter saw lagged a bit compared to having a solid 120 volts. I didn't want to see what any of the other tools did cause it probably isn't good for the tool to do that. Do you think that's the reason it doesn't startup, just too far away from the breaker box? I'd say it's a good 250 feet, so I tested the voltage with a meter and it's 120 volts, but I can plug in a 2.5 amp fan and it drops to 114 volts. I'm assuming a fan shouldn't cause that much of a drop. They don't care that I run a generator, but I just do it after hours when nobody is around. What do you guys think? It's really only capacitor start tools that won't startup.