" Are Imports Any Good "
Yes they are great, people in CHINA should import everything they can from USA, We make great stuff!! Well we do if you actually find something still made here
I love my Aims 5,000 watt inverter, it has 10,000 watts surge it says. I never pushed it that hard yet and probably never will. It's a 12V unit and I abushed it alot, still works perfect. Abused I mean bad weather mobile, dropped it in the yard hard one night etc.. Most likely it's China made but I am not certain at the moment.
It's like anything else sometimes. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. I have 2 Xantrex power booster car jumpers with aircompressor and 400watt inverters, loved those things, very handy. Both my inverters in them are bad now and the aircompressors broke in both. Still I will probably buy another one unless I find a different brand of same thing.
Xantrex is supposed to be so good but the 400watts are dead, or at least have problems they won't work.
As ScottIA mentioned, APC UPS, used cheap! I have a $500 Matrix 5,000, a 3,750watt sinewave unit for backup on half my house. I have a second one for a spare, right now not useing it. Those eat 135watts no load when run on the batteries. Some testing showed they seem to have that loss but perhaps under loads they do not have much or any additonal losses. 48V units.
I have several 1000 watt APC sinewave UPS units also, never tested those for losses but I expect alot less. All 24V units.
Also have a Rackmount 2200?? a 1750watt sinewave unit, also 24V.
I have more inverter stuff now than I have batteries to run them.
Always good to have a spare incase something goes wrong.