Reviewing Solar and batteries for retirement
Hello, I have a fiver that hasn't had it proper share of use and we are now getting ready to fix that issue. We tend to dry camp but will utilize campgrounds if available. We had solar (120 X 2) and i...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Some higher end inverters have a "load seeker" circuit that turns the inverter on when it sees a load.
But is it a universal truth that the larger the inverter, the larger the idle draw? Some I used to see had ridiculously high idle currents. My Trace is adjustable but I have it set for a minimum 50 watt draw before it comes on line.
My Magnum 3000w has a "Search Watts" feature that does that, but its very annoying with my RV microwave as it pulses every second to detect load and the microwave beeps and resets the clock as it does so.
Otherwise its about a 30w draw with no load for the inverter just being on. Smaller inverters definitely draw less at idle something like the Morningstar Suresine 300w looks like about 5w at idle and it also has a search mode that pulses as well going below a watt.
I made a Youtube video of my Magnum in search mode to show how it functions for another forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_jqzY1wNDU
