I have a garage door opener in non-AC powered location that uses ~550 watts to operate. Will this inverter handle the *start-up* requirements as well?
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I can run a 750W fan heater from mine, but since my inverter is installed in a Prius the small 12V battery (30 amp-hour) won't power it alone and needs charging from the Prius. Tripplite recommends two 75 amp hour batteries for a sump pump. YMMV
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Shouldn't be a problem. The only thing I didn't like about inverter was the GFI plug.
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According to the specs, yes, it should. It might be my specific inverter, but I've had it shut down with just a 3/8ths-inch power drill. It doesn't pull any more than a couple hundred watts at start-up. This doesn't happen every time though. You might be fine, but a little more money for a larger one might save you some aggravation.
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I use mine as a power supply for refrigerators. They handle the motor startup fine (although smaller). They are mounted in the truck and we use them while driving down the road for up to 8 hours.
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Hello R.H. You didn't list what the start up Amps / watts are for this garage door opener? With that said, I cannot answer your question. However, I think it would handle that load ok? If I were you I would call Xantrex and ask them for their professional opinion? The call is of course free. Toll Free:1-800-670-0707. Good luck and make the call to be sure? Thanks for asking and good luck.
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It should. The inverter is pretty robust, and a momentary surge into 1100-1200w should be fine. However, being that you are paying for a pure sine-wave inverter, rather than a much cheaper modified sine-wave, I would be sure that the simple on/off motor really is going to benefit from the clean AC power. I use modified wave inverters on plain simple motors (skil-saws), but electronically controlled, variable, clock timed devices, as well as all electronics get the better juice. The other consideration is that certain times, modified sine-wave inverters can shorten the life span of an electric motor. Might do a search on that subject, concerning motors in garage door openers. I tend to think these motors are just fine with modified sine-wave.
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I'm using it for a 720 watt fridge. I think the startup on a fridge compressor would be greater than that for a garage door opener, but have nothing scientific to back that up.
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Absolutely. I use this for a large 420W stereo and a vacuum cleaner. Gets pretty warm using both for 30+ minutes but never shuts off. Great small inverter for the money.
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First thing to note is that this particular "2500" Watt inverter is actually 2500 4 120v A.C. which gives you about 600 Watts per plug with no factory way to bridge it to one of the 4 plugs. Also before you buy this thing read some reviews about if you get a lemon which is common. I already decided against this inverter and it was bought for me as a present from my Sister. The inverter died in 7 weeks and after a lot of hassle we received a RMA which was sent off the end of October with zero return and zero response from the company. Do yourself a favor and find a better brand. It's worth a hundred bucks just to avoid this very cheap device. To answer your question. As long as your blanket doesn't exceed 600 Watts max your setup will work but you didn't state your amp hour total so you may only get about 2-4 hours of use before you flatten your charge. Best of luck!
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The max power the inverter can handle is 1000 W. The receptacles are in parallel connected. So either receptacle can take max. 1000 W. U can have of instance a load of 50 W connected to one receptacle and on the other a load of 950 W, provide you are not exceeding the max. Hope this answers your question.
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My initial reaction is no. This kit comes with a 110 volt inverter(can be set to 115 or 120) and would need and external step up transformer to run 220 volt motors. From my experience this inverter would not run a clothes dryer or a 10,000 BTU window air conditioner. It does run my energy efficient refrigerator 24/7 and has been doing that for 1 1/2 years now. I have the 3000 watt Cotek inverter to run all my large motor driven appliances.
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It's set up for 110, so if you go through an inverter it should be fine. I personally wouldn't try anything else just for liability.
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i'm no electrician but . . . the specs should have a number wrt to current usage, presumably watts, so in my logic, getting a suitable inverter wired into the loom should provide enough juice to run the unit, it couldn't be very much
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Check to see what the peak start up surg of your mower is. Sounds like it may be pretty high if your normal running watts are 1400. It should run as long as you don't exceed the surg capabilities of inverter. Also be sure you have the heavy enough cables on inverter side to carry the amps needed to support that type of load.
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Im running 5 x250 watt panels. This 1000 watt GT inverter has worked wonderfully for me.
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I like the answers that include how could you charge it with out power. Solar/wind power plus a power inverter. It's just a small battery back up. I have just hooked mine up to 2 solar panels. I had the panels lying around to use but if I had to buy one I might have gone with a small wind turbine. If you are not going to operate the opener 50 times a day, you should be fine. Worst case get a larger deep cycle battery, I picked up one for my kids power wheel for $40 shipped from amazon. Not a bad deal.
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That option works on my 2000 watt inverter but I do not use it. So many new appliances will not work unless they have power available all the time to run the internal controllers. I noticed however that if I turned on a load that it would not start right away you had to wait until the inverter decided it was time to start. Because of my experience on the 2000 watt inverter it was never tried on the 3000 watt inverter.
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Yes this inverter would work for that. It's a good inverter, husband is a truck driver and uses his off the truck battery to run his fridge, microwave, etc.
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I have blown inverters that have matching capacities to the PV's. A good rule is to give yourself extra capacity. Although your PV array is rated at 1000 watts your are probably producing 700watts tops. You are probably wondering if you can get away with using a 1000 watt inverter. I wouldn't risk it. I've done it in the past, but heat is your enemy. Over rate your system with a 1500 inverter and spare yourself the aggravation of living on a prayer. P.s. lengthen the life of your inverter by cooling it with a low wattage fan.
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Depends on the size of your battery string. I have four deep cycle batteries and it would run it for a bit. When running the inverter I have plenty of power to run most everything. Including 120 and 12 volt loads.
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this inverter is a under powered inverter. go with a aims inverter!! I picked up a pure sine wave aims inverter and have been loving it.
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I did buy this inverter..it did just what we wanted it to do... we use it for a small solar application on an off grid camp.. our biggest concern was running a small chest freezer converted to a run as fridge with a 5A start up needed. Have not had a problem.
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We haven't run it with such an inverter, but we did look at the circuitry inside when evaluating it, and it shouldn't need a pure sine-wave. In fact, it only pulls power at the peaks of the sine wave (it has around a 0.7 power factor), and will actually run with an appropriate high-voltage DC input instead of AC. So it shouldn't care if your inverter is "modified-sine-wave". Your inverter, however, may care that the supply only pulls power during part of the cycle, and you may therefore need an inverter with a higher peak output power/current than you were expecting.