here is a solution.
While you folks were sweating like pigs, I was comfortably watching TV and eating fatty foods in my centrally Airconditioned home in atlanta (living up the american dream).
Thanks god I was away and not cursing the endenorte while banging my fist on my warm fridge door.
Here is a solution:
call Eddy (english speaking dominican engineer) in santo domingo: tele. 856-8029. He got inverters at great prices that he fabricates himself (custom built for DR electricity... fluctuations, low power charging, spikes etc). His inverters never break down (not in my case....4 years and still going strong) and if you do manage to screw it up, it can be fixed for a couple hundred pesos as opposed to thousands of pesos for a trace unit.
Connect a minimum of 4 batteries for a small apartment or 8 batteries if you are going to connect lots of things to it. Get a 2kilo watt unit and you will never go wrong.... for an average house. The bigger the kilo watt the better but pricey.
I always have electric; i use low wattage bulbs (tube lights) and manage my electric well. I don't have fridge connected, only lights and fans and TV, oh and my PC. Its a 2 kilo watt unit with 4 batteries. I always have juice even if the lights go out for 24 hours. This is the best investment I have ever made in DR.
