Howdy all,
I am on the hunt for another inverter. The first 1500W inverter was nice well built american made, but it stopped working, so I bought some cheap harbor freight inverters rated at 1500W and they could barely handle 750W without faulting. But they didn't die like my well built american brand. However, my batteries would die
and I found out that these stupid things drain my batteries even when the unit is powered off -- just by mere connection to the batteries, the harbor freight brand drains my batteries. When I figured this out, and actually physically disconnect the batteries, then I saw I had a lot more battery life. These are unpractical to use so why I'm looking. I think the no-load idle consumption loss is my biggest issue I need to identify (outside of pure vs modified sine wave, and max real [vs fake advertised] continuous power).
There are soo many manufacturers and models. Is there a reference chart anywhere or link somewhere that has reviewed these leakage currents of different models? so I can at least get a short list of vendors to look at? I only have 800W at high noon and want to be able to keep the whole unit on 24/7 instead of disconnecting it every day. I hope to get more panels in the future and more battery capacity once I get a descent inverter.
Thank you in advance.
I am on the hunt for another inverter. The first 1500W inverter was nice well built american made, but it stopped working, so I bought some cheap harbor freight inverters rated at 1500W and they could barely handle 750W without faulting. But they didn't die like my well built american brand. However, my batteries would die
and I found out that these stupid things drain my batteries even when the unit is powered off -- just by mere connection to the batteries, the harbor freight brand drains my batteries. When I figured this out, and actually physically disconnect the batteries, then I saw I had a lot more battery life. These are unpractical to use so why I'm looking. I think the no-load idle consumption loss is my biggest issue I need to identify (outside of pure vs modified sine wave, and max real [vs fake advertised] continuous power).
There are soo many manufacturers and models. Is there a reference chart anywhere or link somewhere that has reviewed these leakage currents of different models? so I can at least get a short list of vendors to look at? I only have 800W at high noon and want to be able to keep the whole unit on 24/7 instead of disconnecting it every day. I hope to get more panels in the future and more battery capacity once I get a descent inverter.
Thank you in advance.
