What your customers will find is that these auto parts store inverters
only reach their nominal ratings with resistive loads. When trying to
start a motor they exhibit a fraction of their rated power - too much
reactive load. Same goes for anything with a transformer or power supply.
Also, if you take the cover off of one you will be unpleasantly
unsurprised at the construction and workmanship. I've seen one with a
"heat sink" for the transistors that was a paper thin piece of aluminum
angle. You have to think that at $300 for 2500 Watts (supposedly) they
used the very cheapest discrete components they could source.
Talk them down off the ledge.
Hilton
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Hilton Dier III
Renewable Energy Design
Partner, Solar Gain LLC
453 East Hill Rd.
Middlesex, VT 05602
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