is this inverter built to be used every day or will it burn out? thanks
1661723
We use ours every day without problem so far: four and a half years without any problem at all.
152756
The standby current draw is slight, so leaving the inverter on when it is not supplying power won't significantly drain the source battery over a period of a few minutes.
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.
1550521
It does not supply a wall inverter for in home use. This is made to wore directly into a 12V marine or vehicle system. I'm sure you could get an inverter however and use it in your house if you really wanted to.
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
996566
That is how I use mine, actually using a heavy duty 3 prong plug and it works great. Powerful and quiet. I like the remote, event though it only puts it in "standby" mode from the remote. Recently sold my motor home to buy a newer unit and the inverter was the first thing I removed to install in the new unit.
862056
No, i never try. I always have a load on it, and if I turn things off it goes to a standby or power save mode automatically.My inverter have been running for more then 2 years now. With no problems so for.
344542
i would not recommend using this with an inverter, you would be creating a fire hazard.
159397
Depending on the fan.. The power output of this inverter is 400 Watt continuous and 1000 Watt Peak output. Most household fans are ~25 Watts. So it should handle it without a problem.
1886969
No. This inverter is designed for portable use, RV, boat, etc. It will short it out, and burn it up if you try it. You need to buy one that is made to be hard wired, (very expensive), or just run an extension cord from the Samlex to the lights, appliances, etc.that you need to run. I know it's inconvient, but better than sitting in a dark house!
375514
The short answer is "Yes". David Tullos says it will last 8 - 10 hours on full load (1500 watts) but I do not believe it will last any where near that long. The first link I have provided below computes the battery will last .66 hours at a continuous 1500 watt load and that makes sense to me. I have run a 2500 watt inverter on 1 of these 12 volt 100 amp hour batteries. The inverter must be a 12 volt inverter. The question is...how long will the battery last. That depends on the average (a refrigerator for example) or continuous wattage (maybe a 1500 watt heater running continuously) used by the electrical devices being powered. Of course the fridge doesn't run continuously so you have to take that into account. If you run a 1500 watt heater continuously off of this 100 amp hour battery you should be able to compute how long it will last. You also do not want to discharge the battery too much below 50%. There is a certain amount of research you need to do part of which involves using very thick gauge (probably at least 4 awg but maybe as large as 0 awg) cables from the inverter to the battery which your inverter documentation should tell you. The general rule of thumb for DC current is that for every 1 amp of AC current used by an appliance you will draw 10 amps of DC current from the battery. 10 amps of AC current will draw about 100 amps of DC current. Here are some links that might help. I do not know how reliable these are but they seem to be correct with my understanding of electricity and the research I've done. The first link seems to be the simplest to use by plugging in your own data. http://usasolarwind.com/Tools/BET.html http://powerstuff.co.za/battery-size-calculator/ http://www.bdbatteries.com/dcdcsolar.php I hope this helps.
1387843
That is the issue. If you want really long endurance off the grid you need to consider inverters, charge controllers and deep cycle batteries. All these cost a bit more and occupy more space. I've used this APC unit for 3 years with my database server and it has worked flawlessly. It is big and heavy for a UPS, but it keeps up my sever for about 2 hours when new. Monitor is off and the other equipment is run from a separate UPS.
1620298
I used mine only a couple times to power around 150 watts of notebook PC and monitor and this inverter failed after one year. I can't recommend it for any reason.
1622029
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.
2049926
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
937540
As long as you have a large enough battery bank feeding it there should be no problem. I have a series-parallel battery bank with 12 batteries with a 1,400 amp capacity & my inverter never misses a beat.
452591
specs for the unit say .6A no load (standby) current draw so eventually it would pull battery dead if you did not have any charging on your battery bank, probably not a bad idea if leaving un-attended for long periods to have a battery disconnect for the inverter so you don't have some glitch that would allow inverter to possibly short and start a fire.