Various aspects of home brew inverters

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Madness Guru Joined: 08/10/2011 Location: Australia Posts: 2498	Posted: 04:19pm 28 Mar 2017         oztules said   Even here these things seem to not care. There are a few of these here that run 150uf or more driving a 2.5kw hot water element during the 10-4 time slot. They don't seem to have any effect on the units.... they run them just perfectly. This allows the hot water element to run at say 1kw, and the battery only sees this.... the inverter sees the power factor problem and has more VA than the load... but the battery only see the watts...... but the huge capacitance seems to be of no conern at all. It's all a mystery as to why it works so well, but cap loads don't seem a bother at all for even long periods. Mad, the ones with 12 fets that had a good wave form... how did they survive. .........oztules I have not run them for long as yet but I am planning to do that very soon and see how the survive. I won't run the AC off it so should not get over 4KW load. There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.