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JnJnKatiebug
Explorer
Jun 29, 2016

Pure Sine Wave vs Modified Sine Wave for fridge

I am thinking about changing my fridge out to a residential unit but I would need to be able to run it from my inverter for up to 8 hours at a time. (I have 4 new Trojan T105 batteries) I have read wh...
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SoundGuy
Explorer
Jul 05, 2016
JnJnKatiebug wrote:
I bought a plug in volt meter this weekend and plugged into one of the outlets that is powered by the inverter. It only shows 95 volts. Looks like I have a problem with my inverter anyway. Show power ranged from 115 to 120.


Of course ... any meter designed to read a pure sine wave signal will incorrectly display voltage from a modified sine wave inverer which you indicated in your original post is what you have. :R

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