I have just got my first inversor! It worked fine for 3 weeks and then kept breaking down. Just turning itself off. The electrician kept coming to fix it and said:
1. The voltage coming in was too high, so changed the wiring outside to a lower voltage.
2. The voltage coming in was too low, so changed back to the higher voltage.
3. The shower (one of those which heats up in the shower head) was too powerful so disconnected from inversor, so only works on street power.
4. The fridge was too powerful so disconnected from inversor too.
Anyway none of this worked so now the inversor has gone away for repair and he has lent me a small 1.5KW one.
This one goes into overload when you use the iron (the electrician says never use iron with inversor), the water cooler (now disconnected) and struggles even with the coffee maker.
OK, so I decide to educate myself and learn about watts! So as far as I can work it out, I can use things up to 1,500 watts and all should be fine. The water heater is 650, the iron 1200 so that won't work. No idea about the coffee maker. But surely if the water cooler is 650 I should be able to use that with just light bulbs and computer? But if cooler is on, the inversor makes a funny noise and the lights go up and down.
And the one being repaired is 3000 so why can I not iron with that one? I know that there are spikes when you turn things on, but how high are the spikes?
Help.
Matilda
1. The voltage coming in was too high, so changed the wiring outside to a lower voltage.
2. The voltage coming in was too low, so changed back to the higher voltage.
3. The shower (one of those which heats up in the shower head) was too powerful so disconnected from inversor, so only works on street power.
4. The fridge was too powerful so disconnected from inversor too.
Anyway none of this worked so now the inversor has gone away for repair and he has lent me a small 1.5KW one.
This one goes into overload when you use the iron (the electrician says never use iron with inversor), the water cooler (now disconnected) and struggles even with the coffee maker.
OK, so I decide to educate myself and learn about watts! So as far as I can work it out, I can use things up to 1,500 watts and all should be fine. The water heater is 650, the iron 1200 so that won't work. No idea about the coffee maker. But surely if the water cooler is 650 I should be able to use that with just light bulbs and computer? But if cooler is on, the inversor makes a funny noise and the lights go up and down.
And the one being repaired is 3000 so why can I not iron with that one? I know that there are spikes when you turn things on, but how high are the spikes?
Help.
Matilda