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BFL13
Explorer II
Dec 05, 2015

The Big and Small Inverter Scam UPDATE-Tested.

Updated 7 Dec-- Not that this is picking a fight or anything :) I went with the story that you should have a big inverter for the big things and a small inverter for the small things for a few y...
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Almot
Explorer III
Dec 07, 2015
BFL13 wrote:
So that 0.5a could be just mostly from that as an actual 120v load on the inverter (shore power plugged into it for whole house) and not from actual "idle draw."

"Might be" some losses other than inverter indeed, but I think those 0.5A can easily be idle draw of 3000W MSW. Can't get any smaller than this. I have 0.16A idle draw on 175W MSW.

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