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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