Residential refrigerator
I just bought a new 5er with a residential refrigerator, it has a 1000 watt inverter. I tried to run the refrigerator off the inverter yesterday and it did not appear to be working, the light was on, ...
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naturist wrote:
I would very much doubt any residential refrigerator would run off a mere 1,000 watt inverter. While such a unit might only draw 600-700 watts while running, the starting surge would be in the neighborhood of 2,000 watts, way beyond the capacity of that inverter. A 1500 watt inverter MIGHT have enough surge capacity, but not a 1,000 watt inverter.
Hmmm, might be some out of date info here. Many factory instaleed residential refrigerators come with 1000 watt sine wave inverters. The draw of a residential is around 95 to 130 watts depending on manufacturer. The surge or start up is usually around 600 to 900. No problem for a 1000 watt inverter. These numbers are also close to our own 22 cubic foot residential refrigerator. Power requirements of a modern residential fridge are a fraction of what they were 10 years ago.
Find the inverter and check to see if there is output. Work backwards from there.
