Tested several inverters: 70, 100, 350, 1000w trip lite.
Found a pock inverter 100w by Xantrex, running two 18 w CFL gets warm after an hour. Runs my laptop just fine also.
Bought two 70w inverters for $13, driving one 18 w CFL shutdown too hot after 45 minutes. Worked after cooled down. Power draw was the same, opened it up, limited Heat sink area, to use would repackage adding heat sink area.
Interesting my Vector 350w used exactly the same power as the 100w, surprising. Expected the 100w to be less. 350W has fan, can drive many CFL at once.
1000w stand by current was 6x higher... forget the numbers.
Have fun,
Scott.
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