Looking for small fanless inverter in the 200 watt range
I'm hoping that someone has experience with and can recommend a small inverter to use for charging laptops and cell phones that does NOT have a fan and runs silent.
Anything?
Anything?
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- Get the Morningstar. Well-known brand.
- I've found three fanless inverters so far:
Mean Well 200 watt $108. No USB port. Made in USA?
Morningstar 300 watt $200+ No USB port
BixPower 150 watt $120 +$10 shipping - has USB port. Probably Made in China
Monday, I'm going to call on the Mean Well to see where it's made. - Morningstar 300w would be the no fan option. I recommend GoPower 150 or 300 watt sine wave inverter. Powering a couple cell phones you will never hear the fan. Has a very low idle draw if left on overnight. Has a provision for a remote switch if you choose to hide it and wire to the existing outlets.
Or just get a surface mount 12v/USB connector to charge direct and skip the step the up and down process. - It seems the trick to not using the fan is to keep the load at about 20% of the output. We had a nice 400 watt inverter, and the fan would stay off at 55 watts, but come on at 85 watts. (Two levels of brightness on a TV)
- Morningstar has a 300 watt which is the best of the best. No fan at all, but a quite massive heat sink.
