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  • Re: Fridge is surge overloading inverter

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    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…
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  • Re: AC versus DC load calculations and resistance

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    You can use an electric heater as your test load. Resistive electric heaters are very close to 1.0 power factor. Bill
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  • Re: Inverter Help

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    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…
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  • Re: Questions about "dry" acidless batteries

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    Do you have a link to these dry storage (Lead Acid?) batteries? Regular "dry charged" lead acid batteries do age and have only about an 18 month storage life (I guess the plates are not rea…
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  • Re: State of Charge

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    Float is just high enough voltage to keep the battery bank charged and will (roughly) pump somewhere between 0.01% to 2.0% "charging current" into the battery bank (AGMs have lower self dis…
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