5,000 watt 10,000 watt surge Pure Sine Wave Inverter

Call the seller and tell them you want to use it for running things that you think you should be able to with a inverter this size and the will tell you that you need a LF model which cost considerably more and is twice the size.

My 3000/6000 watt unit lasted a year until I fired up the tiny air conditioner. Now it wont hold voltage but if you want to fix it, send me shipping and I'll send it on down. Otherwise...RUN

About an hour of video review. In part 3 he tests the inverter.

Here's the Cliff notes--- After adjusting a pot, the inverter produced 115V instead of 105V. He got the inverter to power about 20 amps of draw using various devices (down to 107V). An electric heater drawing less than 1500W ran for a couple of minutes before it shut down from thermal overload. The thing is absolute junk and would never produce 3000W.
One thing it did have is an unpopulated full board that would probably offer an internal transfer switch.

In another video, a new owner repairs one with various sized hammers. :B

750 MCM, then 600, 500, 400, 300, down to 250 MCM which itself is larger than 4/0 cable. You talkin' serious conductor-mil cross sections here... One job I fought 600 MCM - never again. It takes long handled bending tools and long lugs with two inline holes.

For two-hundred ninety nine bucks I could be a teeny bit forgiving about spec hyperbole. For a pure sine wave inverter.

It'd be nice if it had a 200-amp 12-volt charger -grin-

Chris Bryant wrote:
I don't know that you could even connect 4/0 cables, to say nothing of the 750 mcm which would be required at minimum..

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The 12v terminals, as shown, don't look anywhere near big enough to handle even 1000w.

And I'm amazed that anyone offers an inverter that large with 12vdc input. It's just not practical.

I'm aware of modern design, but you cannot get around the fact that several hundred amps of DC is going to require large conductors, ideally copper. I don't know that you could even connect 4/0 cables, to say nothing of the 750 mcm which would be required at minimum.
I say you would be lucky to get 1/2 the rated output.

As to country of origin, I trust that as much as I trust the specs.

If it's a modern high frequency switching design, it won't need a lot of copper unlike the ancient design that Trace, Magnum, Xantrex, Tripp Lite and others use. Those low frequency designs need huge inductors to carry massive current between switching intervals. High frequency = less current to carry between switch cycles.

To me the chart at the bottom, listing a 1500 watt inverter for a 20 watt fluorescent, is just over compensating for surge current. Big caps to handle surges make things expensive and were left out to meet that $300 price tag (which is probably 2x mark up)

The interesting part to me is the unit is made in Taiwan, with 100% Taiwanese parts. The same as Meanwell. The electronics I have purchased from Taiwan have been flawless. Same for hand tools. There is far less a quality gulf between Japan and Taiwan than there is between Japan and China.

I think the manufacturer is being cautious about performance ratings because of the ridiculous falsehoods made by Chinese inverter manufacturers.

Now, that's what I would call a PENDANT!

This may larger than you think it is... Look at one laying next to the girl in the other photo.

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Roy Ken

What is interesting is the factoids listed- for example, the 5000 watt model will not run anything over 2000 watts, according to the chart at the bottom, which also says you need a 1500 watt inverter to run a 20 watt florescent light.

I just don't see enough copper in that thing to be anywhere near a 5KW inverter, or even 2-2500 watt inverters (which is what I suspect it is).

10kw surge @ 12v = 800a. Couple T105s should handle that.

I hope nobody thinks this unit could actually handle 5kw continuously.