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jcpainter
Explorer
May 18, 2013

Built-in Onan Generator - inverter compatibility

As we were ending our "snow birding" stay in Florida this year, we had Camping World install a Cummins Onan Marquis Gold 5500 generator and a 2000 watt Nature Power pure sine wave inverter/charger. ...
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2oldman
Explorer II
Jun 02, 2013
jcpainter wrote:
They said that their inverters needed perfect input from the generator in order for them to produce proper Pure Sine Wave output.
Wow...what nonsense.

Never did hear what happens on shore power.
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Interesting.

The Home Depot sells this unit for $800. CW shows as an 'Internet special' for $1150, but says it's not available online.

$800 is really cheap (translation: poorly made) for an IC of those specs.

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