Power Jack PSW 3000/6000 PSW inverter (ebay)
You know me, I''m always on craigslist or ebay buying things that are not tested or recommended. I found these inverters on ebay a while back. Power jack 3000/6000w psw inverter Total cost shippe...
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I wanted to update on the Power Jack inverter. We used it a number of times for the microwave up to 8 minutes, the vacuum, hair dryer, coffee maker as well as smaller things like the TV/satellite, phone chargers, etc.
It doesn't have the massive idle draw I thought. It drew a few amps more than a small 150w inverter we ran just the TV/satellite on.
The one issue I had with it was when running very small loads, it would go to sleep for a instant, hardly long enough to notice except the TV and satellite would have to be restarted. It never happened with heavier loads like the coffee pot and TV for hours and small load small inverter makes more sense anyways.
So I am pretty happy with my cheap ebay PSW inverter. Even if it did have the high idle draw I would have only turned it on to run a load anyways. Knowing that the draw is lower means that the solar makes it so I don't care if it gets left on between uses.
On a side note, the smaller inverter is a Powerbright cw150 MSW. The TV/sat did run on it but I noticed the receiver and phone chargers were getting warmer than I would like so I will still replace it with a PSW. To its credit at times it ran all day so the TV could distract the dogs, unfortunately so did its fan. So I think a larger unit that isn't pushed so hard would be better.
It doesn't have the massive idle draw I thought. It drew a few amps more than a small 150w inverter we ran just the TV/satellite on.
The one issue I had with it was when running very small loads, it would go to sleep for a instant, hardly long enough to notice except the TV and satellite would have to be restarted. It never happened with heavier loads like the coffee pot and TV for hours and small load small inverter makes more sense anyways.
So I am pretty happy with my cheap ebay PSW inverter. Even if it did have the high idle draw I would have only turned it on to run a load anyways. Knowing that the draw is lower means that the solar makes it so I don't care if it gets left on between uses.
On a side note, the smaller inverter is a Powerbright cw150 MSW. The TV/sat did run on it but I noticed the receiver and phone chargers were getting warmer than I would like so I will still replace it with a PSW. To its credit at times it ran all day so the TV could distract the dogs, unfortunately so did its fan. So I think a larger unit that isn't pushed so hard would be better.
