Selecting a high wattage psw inverter
Hi, I'm considering what to buy next to replace the existing inverter which failed yesterday. I need to have 2500 watts but 3000 would be better and it needs must be pure sine wave. I'm looking ...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi Smk,
Yes, I've thought about 24 and 48 volts.
If I do that I loose any redundancy. Because I stayed with 12 volt when I had a problem, I had a work around in 20 seconds. If I had gone to 24 volt I would have been up the creek without a paddle.
If I were starting over from scratch I'd lean towards 48.
But recent events seem to indicate I should stay with 12 volts.smkettner wrote:
Have you considered going 24 volts for this service? IMO over 2000 watts is really pushing 12v system a bit hard.
24v still affords you a work around, it just adds another 20 minutes to rewire the battery bank in a similar situation.
