Anybody used the 3000W inverter in place of a generator in a camper running off marine batteries? Does it work well and last a good period of time?
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We use it in the RV and it's hasn't over heated and is quiet. We use it to run a wireless phone and handset.
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I am not familiar with the inverter you are talking about, but I used this unit in a RV with inverter and generator with no problems. It pulls 1800 watts
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I don't know. I don't have such an inverter. I seriously doubt that the battery would produce many watts for very long anyway.
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Hi There I run the inverter off of a 27D size 12 volt battery on my boat that is charged from a 120 amp alternator off of the motor.
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My setup is similar. I use an inverter on one side and my generator on the other. When my batteries die then i start my generator and wait like 20 seconds and it transfers. No doubt it'll work!
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Probably not the best idea. You could run the 12v unit off the connectors on one battery but that imbalance could shorten the life of the two batteries since they won't automatically balance. Best options - get a separate 12 volt battery for the inverter, or the company makes a 24 volt inverter. I've been very happt so far with the 12 volt model. It powers the coffee brewer and microwave oven in my RV just fine. Jim
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The 450 watt inverter will easily handle the CPAP, which average about 40 watts. The battery should last the night, if nothing else is drawing off of it. The question is, how will you charge it the next day? Will you have a source of 120VAC? If, while camping, you run a generator during the day, that would do it. Shut down the generator at night, so people can sleep, and use this little guy to power the CPAP. That would be ideal!
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I use it with a 1600 watt inverter and it works great. Just that if you don't drive it very often, I would disconnect it.
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yes it wiil , it's a good inverter I have all kinds of eletronces hooked to it . the only thing I had to do is add a onther battery , every 6 mounth was replacing the altnator on the truck , good now
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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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I have only used the twelve volt system in my vehicle. Since I posted issues with my inverter, I took a two day trip. The inverter worked great the whole time. I have complete confidence in it now.
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I use mine this past weekend. I had the panel charging a 12V marine battery through a solar controller and had a 12v fan running in my trailer at the same time. Seemed to work just fine.
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I realize this is an old question, but maybe somebody else will still wonder (that doesn't already know, or maybe even have better information than I do). In any case..., I run my FM-65G mostly on solar (I use it mostly in/around or in transit to/from my trailer which has 1,200 watts (rated) worth of solar panels mounted on it - and which is the only electrical power my trailer has - I don't even own a (gas powered) generator and I regularly spend weeks camping `off grid'). Whynter will tell you one thing on their site, but I haven't found it to be especially accurate with its DC current requirements. According to my DC meter, when the compressor is on it generally takes about 6-7 amps (at 12 volts - I haven't tried running it on 24 volts, but supposedly it will, I'm a little leery to try it, even though the off grid solar on my house runs on a 24v battery bank so I easily could). Of course that is when the compressor is running, which it doesn't always, depending on the ambient temperature and the temperature the cooler/freezer is set to. In my experience so far, generally with daytime highs about 70-80 and nighttime lows in the 50's or so, and the temperature on the unit set at 37 degrees, it has averaged just over 0.5 amps per hour at night and just under 1.5 amps per hour during the day, for a typical total daytime average usage of about 24 amps (honestly, despite the inaccuracy in the information from Whynter, I'm impressed). If it's sunny enough, yes, an 80 watt panel probably will run it, barely, but there again is another variable - how much sun is there? Under the conditions I have run it, and based on my experience, 2 fully charged -6 volt golf cart batteries have a theoretical capacity of about 200+ amps which would theoretically run the cooler for over a week (probably overkill, at least for just running the cooler in the conditions that I have tried it so far). My AC meter reports similar, but probably slightly worse, performance (not including the (potential) inverter loss).
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Mine is the 500 watt unit - but it DOES shut off below 11 volts or above 14.5 volts. With a marine battery that might be enough to "recover" overnight and therefore acceptable. Do be aware that this unit, which I like very much and has worked flawlessly for quite a while, IS NOT a TRUE SINE WAVE type and for my computers etc. that do require True/Pure Sine Wave power; I purchased an additional, different inverter as well.
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I used the terminal blocks off the old inverter that I was replacing . You should be able to purchase grounding lugs with 2/0 connections and 1/4" or 5/16" size holes to convert over. I am very happy with the inverter. It is able to do what it says. Just got back from my camp over the weekend that is off grid, just solar 12V. My friends wife ran a blender to make a drink while we had all are lights and a tv with a dish setup all at once. We wanted to see if it would all run and it did . Had others that do not come close. Good luck
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we bought that kit the inverterwas too small for what we needed to do we bought the 6000 it does a great job we are running for 100 watt solar panel 6 /6 volt batterywe run it from 12 o'clock in the afternoon 2 ,1 o'clock in the morning then we lost power we are living in a 40 foot trailer we plan on adding a 900 wind generator and 6 more batteries that should do the trick but the 1500 watt inverter just wasn't enough hope this was help