Gabrielle
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This is our inverter's power graph. When the fridge starts there is a 776W spike, and 100W constant until the compressor stops. The freezer is the similar with only 180W spike and 75W until the compressor stops. The fridge is a full size household one and the freezer is an under counter one.
This doesn't really make sense to me. But I suppose there's a lot I don't know about these things. The whole purpose of the freezer to fridge was to have a super efficient fridge for solar use, but you're saying the motor will need the same watts regardless? Even if it hardly has to kick on the compressor? And the kill-a-watt meter is useless in this case?Yes. There are quality and there are inexpensive inverters.
Note; The fridge has a motor driving a compressor. It doesn't matter what the temperature is set in the fridge. The motor demands the watts that are listed on the motor data tag. Plus the surge on startup.
I'm not just setting the temperature on the appliance, but setting the temperature controller that is plugged into the appliance before in between it and the inverter:
Which I thought would alter the wattage needs of the appliance but I guess only over time judging based on the consensus of everyone here. Makes sense to me now.
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