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tfirma
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Mar 22, 2016

Question about Battery Load / Inverter Capacity

Hello everyone! I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, because I've read so many articles, posts about the topic - but I STILL can't figure it out. Here is my scenario : I have (2) 12v AGM batteri...
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Chuck_thehammer
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Mar 22, 2016
you are correct.. the startup power is much higher ...
in the AC world... large startup is common in power devices.. as its only 5 to 10 seconds... could be 3 times the running watts.

or

your battery bank is dropping voltage at the startup...

volt meter at inverter to see..
then volt meter at battery bank..

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