From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "bob prohaska"  wrote in message news:tfqurm$2md9q$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   For now I've accepted the charging performance as "good enough". I don't   
   like the standby draw (11-12 W) but can live with it.   
      
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   I'm running small AC loads like this laptop from Bestek 300W and 500W true   
   sine inverters that draw about 7~7.5W no-load power. The 300's fan is mostly   
   off, silent, at low loads, the 500's fan runs continuously. Battery   
   monitoring and charging are separate functions that I can change and   
   experiment with to maximize economy when the grid is up or performance when   
   it's down.   
      
   I designed and built custom industrial and military electronics for a   
   living, so I prefer upgradeable modular over integrated solutions to   
   ill-defined or evolving problems, with Wattmeters between modules to monitor   
   performance. I realize you may not and probably don't have the machine tools   
   to fabricate the metal enclosures but I can describe only what I have.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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