Fridge and inverter, can I do this?
Ok, so I have been reading posts about people who changed out their fridges to residential ones. I too did this a couple years ago and the fridge always worked fine on my modified wave inverter. How...
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Kountryguy wrote:
I have a Samlex 1000 Pure Sine and it sometimes trips the ground fault starting my small freezer that draws 75 watts when running. Samlex told me residential unit sometimes take 10 times the running wattage to start. That sounds high to me, but who knows.
that is correct and normal, the Lock Rotor Amps of the compressor
you will find the LRA stamped on the compressor
our fridge draws 90~100 watts running but draws 9amps at 120v on compressor start thats 1080va aka watts
