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Default Generator or inverter?

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:00:18 +0000, Peter Scott wrote:

Thus if my calcs are
correct you need 83 Ah, which might need to be doubled to allow for
inverter inefficiency.


I find my invertor is about 80% efficient. It draws 10A @ nominal 12V
for every 100W of 240Volts it pushes out into a resistive load, so no
power factor stuff is taken into account.

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