re: Tiger Claw 1500 W pure Sine Inverter. How is its performance
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My Sunforce 11240 Pure Sine Wave Unit has been working fine. Remote responds readily. Runs lights in my garage and small air compressor at various times. Well pleased with its performance. Remember, when you use more than 80% of your machine's capacity on a regular basis you may cause a premature failure of your equipment. As long as you don't put a really heavy load on the unit that pushes it to the max, you should get good service out of this inverter. Mine has been in service for almost a year with no problems.
833520
I don't have that inverter I have the sunforce 1000 watt invertet and it is excellent
833521
So far I haven't had any problems. I don't use it daily. I have it hooked up to my solar system. I bought it after a friend had gotten one. He uses his much more than I do and is very pleased also.
833522
I'm a little confused by your question. The page you posted a question on is for a sunforce 1000 W inverter, yet you seem to be asking about a Tiger Claw 1500W inverter. Your question went to owners of the sunforce 1000W inverter, of which mine performed excellent. I used it 12 hours a day for a year then 24 hours a day for another year. Even though it is rated for 1000W it would put out well over, running my vacuum at 1100W and even my air compressor at 1400W. It finally died on year 3.
822911
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.
2076507
Michelle your would have to look at the watts on the AC unit. ? And I could give u better answer This inverter is really a great unit but keep in mind battery. I tested it out and run a portable ac for 5 minutes on 1 fully charge battery. It worked great. My battery bank at the moment has 4 batterys links to solar panels AC unit would upto 30 minutes on what I have. Hope that helps you Inverter great. But you need a lot of batteries to run power drain units like AC Units
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Wow, did I call it junk? I mean, it's not the worlds greatest inverter, and if only used a few minutes at a time for small loads, it would be ok. But going bigger means you are going to run some serious equipment, and most likely expensive stuff too. Xantrex has recently come out with a line of inexpensive sinewave inverters to compete with what china is producing in their sunforce line. These are in the $289-300 price range. Personally I'd take the Xantrex first over the sunforce because it WILL deliver 1000W, while the sunforce shuts down just below 1000W and does not have any surge capacity like the xantrex does. I reviewed 3 inverters, 2 xantrex (the grey one is the one i'm thinking of), a yellow one, and one sunforce inverter (black) - all specified to be 1000W. The GREY xantrex offers the most bang for the buck and is not overrated like the sunforce is. The yellow xantrex has a nice powerdown mode called power save that minimizes the inefficiencies of having an inverter - it turns on every couple seconds, looks for any load, then goes to sleep for 2 seconds. As a result the neon lights on power strips blink because they are below the threshold to put it in run mode, but as soon as you really need power it enters run mode. Just beware that these larger inverters come at a price - idle current - the DC power wasted when no AC power is needed. Yellow (expensive) xantrex has the lowest idle with power save, but you can also just turn off the grey unit when you don't need power. The sunforce has a cute keyfob on/off controller - its range is limited but it does work. It's just not able to do 1000W and nowhere near the surge rating on the inverter. I kept that model anyways for the remote control feature. My personal experience says go with the $289 grey xantrex I reviewed. It's got clean power and just don't run it 24x7 (don't run ANY inverter 24x7 - 1.5 A x 24 = 36 AH, which is almost the daily production of the 60W panels! If you leave the inverter running you won't have any room for running devices.)
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The minimum would be a 125 amp fuse (1500 watts/12 volts). I fried the Tiger Claw with about 1000-1100 watts continuous, with no real surge needed. A tech friend is looking into the problem. He states it really should be loaded to 1,200 watts total due to the internal parts. That is beyond my expertise, though. The Tiger Claw was replaced by a Samlex PSE24175a, which has performed flawlessly under the same load. I now have a Samlex PSE 2000 watt 24v which works with the same load, plus a window A/C with no problem. The old saying goes....You get what you paid for.
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This inverter is a modified sine wave unit. I will tell you this: I live in a motorhome with a small 400 watt system and use the Pw2300 and my main solar system is 600 watts and I use the pw2300. In other words buy it, for the price and the usage you will get out of it it will pay you back 10 fold.. Also the wireless remote is better than false teeth works amazing.. Hope this helps..
289545
I have used 14-2 solid copper romax, from a 210W Evergreen panel and it worked OK. About a 15 foot run. Also used 18AWG hook up wire from a 150W German panel, a short run about 6 feet. Ran the inverter about 6 - 8 months with the 18AWG. I did notice when the panel was outputing about 120W - 125W the wires were harm. I have since switched to 10AWG. If you do not need MC-4 connectors you can buy automotive inline connectors. The male and female will fit the MC-4 connector if you do not over-crimp the connector and flatten the connector insulation.
2186262
I purchased one about a year ago. I returned it because when I connected my iPad to it, the iPad went crazy. I was using the stock power supply that came with it. I tested this several times before I returned it. To answer your question, it is probably NOT a pure sine wave inverter. I ended up getting a Xantrex Prowatt pure sine wave inverter.
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mine is now broke this is the 2nd one - i don't remember. i got a better inverter that is pure sine wave - works much much better but is double the cost. but i think the fan is supposed to shut off - that's what my new one does. these cobras are not very good inverters in my opinion.. the fan should shut off but if it's a heavy load it will stay on. it should be off under no load.
1436887
I have never seen any sine wave interference with any inverter I have ever used and this one is no exception. I have used it to charge my laptop while driving and listening to the car radio with no interference. I do not have a tablet, but it also has not interfered with my smart phone which uses the same and similar technologies as a tablet.
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Mitch: It's not an inverter-quality "clean." Plug all your sensitive electronics into an APC/UPC battery-backup-surge-protector and you'll be good to go. Or go through a transfer switch to your building's main circuit panel. H--da has "clean" ones... ahem.... half-the-power and THREE-TIMES the price... Your choice, but these are good units. Good Luck!
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I have this since Jan 2012 and I work fixing UPS, I have all the equipment to test how pure the sine wave is and let me tell you! I have put on my fluke dual input at the same time utility and this and I would say the output of this UPS is actually more clean then the actual utility I would take pictures if anyone wants too see both in comparison.
2043107
I only used this inverter for a very short time and it worked well. Did not get a chance to verify if it was pure sine wave as I upgraded to a 24 volts inverter within short time
971645
Excellent description.The one thing I'd add is to ensure the 12v. to 120 v. inverter provides a *PURE SINE WAVE* output which is identical (or often cleaner) than a normal utility power grid. Using a 120 volt "Modified Sine Wave" power source can damage and/or weaken electronics, motors, battery chargers, batteries, etc. Or if nothing else, cause them to be less efficient & effective. "Modified Sine Wave" outputs are fine for incandescent light bulbs, but I wouldn't risk damaging my electronics or battery chargers just by saving a few bucks on a lower-end inverter.That said, I'd personally spend a bit extra for a Pure Sine Wave inverter to run electronics, chargers, and/or laptops off of. Excellent description.The one thing I'd add is to ensure the 12v. to 120 v. inverter provides a *PURE SINE WAVE* output which is identical (or often cleaner) than a normal utility power grid. Using a 120 volt "Modified Sine Wave" power source can damage and/or weaken electronics, motors, battery chargers, batteries, etc. Or if nothing else, cause them to be less efficient & effective. "Modified Sine Wave" outputs are fine for incandescent light bulbs, but I wouldn't risk damaging my electronics or battery chargers just by saving a few bucks on a lower-end... » Read More Excellent description.The one thing I'd add is to ensure the 12v. to 120 v. inverter provides a *PURE SINE WAVE* output which is identical (or often cleaner) than a normal utility power grid. Using a 120 volt "Modified Sine Wave" power source can damage and/or weaken electronics, motors, battery chargers, batteries, etc. Or if nothing else, cause them to be less efficient & effective. "Modified Sine Wave" outputs are fine for incandescent light bulbs, but I wouldn't risk damaging my electronics or battery chargers just by saving a few bucks on a lower-end inverter.That said, I'd personally spend a bit extra for a Pure Sine Wave inverter to run electronics, chargers, and/or laptops off of. « Show Less
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No this is a modified sine wave inverter----we have had trouble with this inverter being able to work with one type of cordless tool charger-----so we purchased two different brands of pure sine wave inverters to see if this would in fact eliminate our problem-----it did not so we went back to this inverter and have not had any other issues with it not running any tools with the exception of the one----and that was solved by putting 12 V vehicle chargers in all the service trucks-----we run over 140 of these and they have been bullet proof---1 failure in 140 plus units in service
247890
The inverter doesn't draw much power. Just depends on what you have plugged into it. I ran a sump pump with it so it's designed to handle a lot
100282
So far this inverter does not cause any interference or buzzing. This unit is easily able to power all of our power tools and area work lights. Our total load is 2850 at running watts or 21.5 amps. We are also able to run our Hilti jack hammer which draws 19 amps/2280 watts with no issues.