Quality Question about Small Inverters
I'm shopping for a small, pure sine wave inverter. I'm interested in one that provides about 300 watts. Prices vary wildly, from around $40 to over $150 for a seemingly similar product. I'm not naive....
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SpeakEasy wrote:Ron3rd wrote:
But here's the deal on inverters; The cheapest have dirty power and are not thermo-controlled, and have noisy fans that run all the time.
The better ones are pure sine wave, clean power, that have thermo- controlled fans that run only when needed.
The top tier (expensive) inverters (like Morningstar) don't have fans at all.
I have a Samlex 300 watt PST series inverter that I bought from Best Converter about 5 years ago and am very satisfied. Very quiet thermo-controlled fan, when it comes on at all. They go for about $145 now.
I'm looking ONLY at pure sine wave inverters. And the one that I'm looking at in the <$50 range also says it has a thermostatically-controlled fan.
-Speak
That's gonna be tough. Let us know what you find out about it.
