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Re: Fridge is surge overloading inverter
Re: Fridge is surge overloading inverter Interestingly, "bad wiring" [on ac side] between a "marginal" AC inverter and refrigerator can help (bad wiring as in long wire run with s…1 · -
Re: Fridge is surge overloading inverter
Re: Fridge is surge overloading inverter A kill-a-watt meter will not be fast enough to measure peak amps... In the olden days--we had equipment (huge 500 MByte Disk Drives) that would pull 40+ amps …1 · -
Re: Fridge is surge overloading inverter
Is your refrigerator use 250 watts to run the motor (typically 25 to 50% of the time)? That is a lot of power (usually use around 100-120 watts when motor running and 500-600 watts during defrost cyc…1 · -
Re: AC versus DC load calculations and resistance
You can use an electric heater as your test load. Resistive electric heaters are very close to 1.0 power factor. Bill1 · -
Re: Inverter Help
The first question would be "what is your AC load"? Many (most? all?) of the power save modes in AC inverters require a minimum AC load to function. Typically a minimum of ~6 Watts (or a bi…1 ·
