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Inverters | 15 comments (15 topical, editorial)
Re: Inverters (3.00 / 0) (#10)
by Opera House on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 07:53:10 AM MST
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I run my fridge off a 2000/4000 watt inverter.  I buy these defective on ebay.  Usually a pair of the 50A parallel FETs in the output H bridge are shorted and I just wiggle them out.  In theory this should make it a 1000/2000 inverter. The freezer is only 100W uinning but draws over 17A at start up.   After running the fridge for a couple months, I hooked it up to a 850W microwave.  That shorted out the inverter in about 4 seconds.  Good thing I have a stack of inverters.



Inverters | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial)

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