I run my AIMS 600WATT PSW Power Inverter all the time even when at shore power hookups... Its standy power (with no load) is less than 1AMP (0.6AMPS as I recall)... I call the 600WATT PSW Power Inverter my duty Power Inverter...
Battery bank is always connected...
Find it very useful to have my home entertainment electronics items and other always on items we have always hooked up to it. Have never really run into any running down my battery problems surprises... when shore power or generator power goes away I am still running things from the batteries.
I do monitor the batteries all the time however especially when camping off grid. When they reach the 50% charge state I shut down using them until they get charged back up to the 90% charge state.
Roy Ken
