Rob, I'm a big fan of the Outback Power FX series inverters. www.outbackpower.com
I have one at my house and I've installed a dozen or so for off-grid customers in the past two years and they are all working flawlessly. The sealed version is housed in a gasketed, die cast aluminum housing, making it impervious to moisture, dust and bugs - the biggest causes of inverter failures. They have a nearly perfect sine wave output, which may not be essential for most lights, motors and appliances, but it sure is nice to not have to worry about it when I plug in a new battery charger or electronic device that might not like a modified square wave. They will surge to more than twice their rated output. They can be stacked in series or parallel for more voltage or amps, or even 3 phase. They have a remote interface that can control multiple inverters. Plus, their balance of system components - enclosures for DC and AC circuit breakers and wiring, make for nice looking, clean installations. Outback is a relatively new company started by a group of former Trace engineers who all left Trace after that company was acquired by the Xantrex corporation. These are the guys that designed most of the inverters and charge controllers that made Trace a leader in the RE power electronics industry, including the SW series inverters. Plus they are nice people and truly proud of the products they make. It is nice to know that if you have a technical problem and call Outback, you will likely speak with an engineer who actually designed the equipment in question. That is just not the case at most of the other tech support lines. I hope that helps! Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "rob doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:22 AM Subject: [microhydro] Inverters > Hi All > Thanks to Michael Lawley at Ecoinnovation I'm now > generating power. > The next step is the inverter. > I was thinking of an inverter in the 2 to 2.5Kw range. > I want to run a computer as well as the usual > household items. > Is a pure sine wave inverter essential or would a > modified square wave do just as well. > The inverter will be working from 24v to 220v ac. > I would like to get as good quality inverter as I have > found the small inverters seem to give a lot of > trouble. > What recommendations? > Rob > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" > your friends today! Download Messenger Now > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html > > > > > Does your company feature in the microhydro business directory at http://microhydropower.net/directory ? If not, please register free of charge and be exposed to the microhydro community world wide! > > NOTE: The advertisements in this email are added by Yahoogroups who provides us with free email group services. The microhydro-group does not endorse products or support the advertisements in any way. > > More information on micro hydropower at http://microhydropower.net > > To unsubscribe: send empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Does your company feature in the microhydro business directory at http://microhydropower.net/directory ? If not, please register free of charge and be exposed to the microhydro community world wide! NOTE: The advertisements in this email are added by Yahoogroups who provides us with free email group services. The microhydro-group does not endorse products or support the advertisements in any way. More information on micro hydropower at http://microhydropower.net To unsubscribe: send empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/microhydro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
