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echo: homepowr
to: ROBERT SAYRE
from: ARLO HAGLER
date: 1996-05-14 22:36:00
subject: INVERTERS

 RS> AH>What are you basing this on?  I don't recall having heard 
 RS> anything to AH>this effect before. 
The above were not my words.
 RS>  But; I was talking about near idle conditions. I may be wrong; but, 
 RS> I believe that a 5KW inverter wastes more energy than a 1KW inverter 
 RS> when under a very light load. If so, it would seem that using an 
 RS> inverter which is barely big enough, would be the most energy 
 RS> efficient unless used heavily most of the time.
All that makes sense. I personally have not worked with a mod. sine larger 
than 2500w, that being the Trace U2500. Its idle current (in dynamic scan 
mode) is about 0.5va (1/2 watt).
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