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|    Vaughn Simon to All    |
|    Re: refrigerator on inverter    |
|    11 Sep 18 18:08:03    |
      From: vaughnsimon@gmail.com              On 9/11/2018 3:39 PM, danny burstein wrote:       In my experience, there are three possible problems with refrigerators       on inverters:       1) Some refrigerators don't like square wave and modified square wave       inverters. You don't know until you try.              2) The inverter must be big enough to handle the compressor starting       current, which may be several times its running current.              3) As already mentioned, the defrost cycle on a frost free refrigerator       or freezer can cause a very heavy load because of the defrost heaters.       I have seen 800 watts!              Really, you don't know for sure until you have tried a particular       refrigerator with a particular inverter.              Vaughn              ---       This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.       https://www.avg.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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