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Old 01-17-2018, 10:56 PM   #41
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Jeff,
I would tend to agree with part of your assessment. (but) There can be a price to pay for running things on Dirty Power. While the cost (in power) of converting DC to a Modified Square wave is less than a similar sized pure sine wave. The problem is you generally loose that on the operational side, the device using the dirty power needs more of it, works harder and puts more stress on the device than clean power of a pure sine wave greg

No disagreement here, but in my case, the cost to upgrade to a 3000w true sine wave is pretty high with little payback. Since I have 1800Ah of batteries, I can afford to run the microwave a bit longer, and the inverter/charger has been flawless for nearly 15 years. Still this would not be a great set-up for a van. My current van inverter is a 400w true sine wave, but it runs hot and draws too much when in standby, so I'll be upgrading at some point. Great info here....................

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