As configured, what is max output wattage supported by inverter that ships with system? What is extra cost to swap for a pure sine wave inverter?
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The max wattage that the system has is 5000 watt peak and 2500 watt continuous. That is the power that it can handle from the appliances/items that you want to run. The battery bank consists of (2)100ah batteries which provides a total of 2400 watt hours. You can add more batteries to the system to extend the run time. The pure sine wave inverter is $200 extra. Thanks
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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..
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Will your system be grid tied or off grid ?For grid tie or "back feed" systems we reccomend our 1000 Watt "plug in play" inverter. See our site at :www.planetary-defense.comIf you are off grid, we would favor a 4000 Watt pure sine wave inverter, depending on battery bank size.
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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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Modified sine wave. This inverter will not perform as advertised. Very weak.
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Maybe, if your printer doesn't need a sine wave inverter. I'd find out before you try it. Search back issues/ask the folks at "Home Power" magazine if you don't find an answer. Their editors are very helpful with questions like this.
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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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I have this inverter, and my understanding is that it is pure sine wave. I use it to power my entire vacation house on a Caribbean island with no troubles, save for the fact that the vacuum cannot run at the same time as anything else.
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100 Watt inverter per manufacturer's spec sheet here http://tinyurl.com/c3dj635
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This is a modified sine wave inverter. I have used it with tv, laptops and for charging phones and camera batteries, and using a nutri-bullet blender without a problem.
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I used a Xantrex brand 1000W modified sine wave unit and it works just fine. I used #2 battery cables about 3ft long each that I custom made between the battery and the inverter. I got #2 welding cable from a local hardware supply store and the cable lugs from an electrical wholesale supply house. I used solder paste on the wire and using a propane torch and plumbing solder I soldered the copper cable into the cable lugs. I also installed a 100A fuse on the 12V side for safety. For the battery I used a Trojan 27TMX deep cycle battery. I you need photos of my setup I can send you them.
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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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If you go on the xantrex website you will see the output listed on this 12 volt inverter as 1000 watts at 120 volt, 15 amps at 60 hertz. I am not sure why they did not list this but that is the output on this inverter. 220 volt are available, but to be sure, always go to the manufactures website and double check to avoid getting the wrong thing.
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Not sure what a sine wave inverter is but the bulbs screw into any medium socket ( a typical house hold light socket)
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As another said, it's because the inverter puts out a "Modified sine wave" where it's power isn't exactly the same as house power. If you have an electrical workers oscilloscope, you'd see the house power curve up to the max and drop down in a curve, any power inverters that aren't labeled "True sine wave" just put out pulses of power with it instantly jumping to max, staying on max for a few milliseconds, then turning off (with no curves). I don't know fully why the "buzzing" comes thru, but it is the inverters power (and I've seen that explained in power inverter manuals). As another said, it's because the inverter puts out a "Modified sine wave" where it's power isn't exactly the same as house power. If you have an electrical workers oscilloscope, you'd see the house power curve up to the max and drop down in a curve, any power inverters that aren't labeled "True sine wave" just put out pulses of power with it instantly jumping to max, staying on max for a few milliseconds, then turning off (with no curves). I don't know fully why the "buzzing" comes thru, but it is the inverters power (and I've seen that explained in power... » Read More As another said, it's because the inverter puts out a "Modified sine wave" where it's power isn't exactly the same as house power. If you have an electrical workers oscilloscope, you'd see the house power curve up to the max and drop down in a curve, any power inverters that aren't labeled "True sine wave" just put out pulses of power with it instantly jumping to max, staying on max for a few milliseconds, then turning off (with no curves). I don't know fully why the "buzzing" comes thru, but it is the inverters power (and I've seen that explained in power inverter manuals). « Show Less
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Fridge doesn't require an expensive pure sine wave inverter, run it off a 2KW cheap inverter. You're overloading this inverter on startup with your fridge. I've run all my fridges/freezers and even computers for years off cheap inverters. TV's and other devices that sing from from the non-pure sine wave need a better inverter.
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It is a matter of choice. Inverters are more expensive but tend to be a little more efficient. Otherwise all functions and performance are same or similar.