4000 pesos? Wow! Don't you mean 40,000?We had a whole house voltage regulator installed earlier this month, made a tremendous difference.
Hopefully someone out your way will have a contact for you, ours is from Sabana Grande de Palenque in San Cristobal province, too far!!
As a basis for comparison, we got a 4KW [I think that's right] voltage regulator, installed, for 4000 pesos.
I'm looking for two of them...I have two 3.5Kw inverters so I want to get 2-4Kw voltage regulators to cover the entire house. I'm getting tired of listening to "humming" from the ceiling fans!
4000 pesos? Wow! Don't you mean 40,000?
We have pool pumps, water pumps and an a/c. For a whole house VR, we'd need something rather massive. I doubt 4kw is enough and it'd certainly be more than $RD4000...
I could be wrong but, unless your inverters are pure sine wave you will still get a hum, it has nothing to do with having a voltage regulator.
Our electrician builds them himself...we only needed 4KW, and that's what we paid him. Installed. All our appliances are running better and stronger, even the well pump is pumping with more pressure.
Are you sure it is a "voltage regulator" and not just a "step-up transformer"? The transformer alone could end up frying your appliances if you get voltage spikes.
I had that conversation with AE and her other half the other day. I still think that's what they got. A voltage regulator is much more complex.
I could be wrong but, unless your inverters are pure sine wave you will still get a hum, it has nothing to do with having a voltage regulator.
A voltage regulator is a unit that will take the incoming voltage and bring it up to 110volts. A good unit is not just a transformer it is more. They make a lot of transformers here and call them voltage regulators they work fine long as the incoming voltage stay the same but it does not. If you have a inverter your voltage regulator should be close to twice as large for example if you have a 3k inverter you should use a minimum of 5k voltage regulator. Most people that sell inverters also sell voltage regulators.
The only way to get steady 110 is to run a generator 24/7.
The only way to get steady 110 without a generator is to install your own dedicated transformer on a pole, near your home. You won't have electricity when it goes off, unless you have an inverter or a generator.
Actually, I was told this and did this and it still doesn't work. I installed 13 concrete poles to drag the wire to my ranch, installed a 25Kw transformer (I'm the only draw) and I still do not get a reliable 110/120 unless I am on my generator. I also have a booster/regulator which was supposed to help...and probably does...but EdeNada sends electrical current at such weird voltages/amperage/wattage or whatever that nothing seems to be able to correct it all of the time.