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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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time2roll
Nomad
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.
Need a True RMS meter to read MSW.
And as I said earlier motors and microwaves are looking for this peak voltage that does not exist with MSW.
Yes check it again with an appliance running.

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