Small AC motors and Inverters
Disappointed that my ancient Mod Sine Wave inverter (140W cont, 200W surge) shuts down with a 120W coffee grinder. Works ok with the 400W (cont) MSW inverter built-into the truck, though a little ...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
For 1000 watts I'd not be opening the case up.
I do whole house all the time.
Thanks. I won't open the case, just plug it in then.
With respect to "whole house", that would certainly be the easiest, and the electrical sockets would be conveniently located.
Was only planning to turn on the inverter when needed, probably just a few times a day (unless we become dependent upon it:)). That would save on the parasitic drain (~0.6A) of the inverter, and on any 110V parasitic drains, like in the Microwave.
But I have an EMS-LCHW30 surge protector installed inside the trailer. Not sure if I want the inverter output going through that (more losses? Will the EMS even accept the power?). And the EMS has a delay built into it, currently 136s, but that can be reduced to 15s. So every time I turned on inverter, there would be 15s delay before power came on. Maybe should have got the portable EMS instead.
Alternatively, to get around the EMS, could I feed the inverter's 120VAC into the distribution panel via a secondary branch circuit? That actually would be more convenient as there's an outlet on a 15A breaker close to where I want to put the inverter.
That should feed all the other 120VAC branch circuits and stop at the EMS relay (would have to check with Prog. Ind. about that).
And then when I forget about that connection and plug into shore power ... wonder what the inverter would do? Sounds exciting and doesn't seem that idiot proof.
