I have a fridge that draws about 600W. The inverter alarms and shuts down when the fridge motor kicks on. Any solution????
367520
I disagree with MicroSolar, and agree with James H., I have a 675 watt fridge, and my inverter kicks the compressor over just fine with a 2500watt peak at the beggining, but i have overkill wiring, fat 4gauage more like 2awg. And the run (circuit legnth Pos + Neg) is 2 feet... Might wanna check your wiring before buying a bigger model, though your fridge could be more power hungry....
367521
Offhand, I would say the cables from the batteries were too long and or too thin. So the voltage dropped too low at the inverter and caused it to think the batteries were low and shut down.
367522
The 600w fridge will consume 3000w-4000w when starting, exceed the maxim power of this inverter which is 2000w. We recommend use our 2000w (peak 4000w) pure sine wave inverter. You can find it about 2 weeks later.
367523
I agree the wiring needs to be overkill but if all else fails, you might consider wiring in a fat starting capacitor.
367524
Fridge doesn't require an expensive pure sine wave inverter, run it off a 2KW cheap inverter. You're overloading this inverter on startup with your fridge. I've run all my fridges/freezers and even computers for years off cheap inverters. TV's and other devices that sing from from the non-pure sine wave need a better inverter.
904134
Mine will run a small 700 watt air unit in my shop just fine and it ran my old refrigerator just fine but it will not run the new energy star fridge. The new fridge would not even try to turn on. I guess it looks at the input to see if it is good and gave this inverter a fail.
366652
If you had it hooked to a large capacity battery. With a inverter hooked to that battery large enough to handle 115vac @ 5amps. The amps for a small fridge is probaly closer to 1.5 than it is 15 amps. So with your panel in full sunlight producing 50W at 22vdc regulated to 12vdc. You could in theory run the fridge.
94177
If you didn't use an inverter, you can't fix it. You've fried the electrical components with too much voltage.
1689243
Any good 3000w inverter can handle fridge and freezer, this one will do for sure
1762630
No, the "low voltage" alarm would go off. You need panels that will output 23 to 26 volts to power this inverter.
1318349
Inverter should be connected to the batteries the last port is for like lights or something like that I have my fridge connected there
109904
According to some users, putting a nonfunctional power brick in the refrigerator for 5-10 minutes may resolve some issues, as the problems seem to be caused by overheating. I tried this myself and it seems to have worked. It may not be the most elegant solution, but it could be a good compromise until Asus customer service gets its act together.
142376
If you want to power freezers and refrigerators, get the 3000 watt inverter.
1049002
Although I do not know the answer to your question what I do know is that when it cuts out for HIGH voltage, it sounds an audible signal and remains shut off until it is manually reset. I had that problem with a remote vacation cabin setup when the solar charge controller would automatically equalize the batteries which requires a high voltage (especially in winter and cold battery temps). I would return to the cabin weeks later to find the inverter making its alarm sound but turned off due to high voltage weeks before, and of course the refrigerator and everything else in the cabin would be off. So my impression is that the inverter requires manual resets but I can only answer from the viewpoint of having had an over-voltage cutoff but never had a low voltage cutoff. Sorry I can't specifically answer the question.
1356810
My system shut off after a couple months of being installed as well (240v). I removed canister and electrodes appeared to have a lot of buildup, so I made a little brass brush on a handle that I could get inside and clean the elements. after doing this several times and rinsing (water came out rust colour), I replaced and it is working fine. Will wait and see how long this one lasts. I clamped it and was only pulling about 2-3 amps initially, but after a couple days it is now up to 10-11 amps per leg.
947689
IF the Refrigerator uses LESS than 500watts and uses less than 500watts on start up yes you can... Pretty sure the converter takes care of the Hertz too...
1998786
When I hooked it up it blew my refrigerator up and the inverter blew up also
980988
I run mine thru my inverter so that it will work when I am unplugged from shore power. Good luck
678463
Most of these have a "low voltage alarm" and the power inverter may automatically stop functioning, but other 12V items (like something plugged into the lighter socket) will not be stopped. So you need to monitor those items and turn them off before it goes too low. FYI, I've seen on battery distributers websites statements like "Draining the battery to 0V just one time can make it no longer hold a charge", so once it seems low stop running things before it gets that bad.
1899865
I'm not sure, we researched on an appliance website to troubleshoot our fridge last year. It might be a thermistor. Sorry, I can't say for sure. We learned through trial and error of various parts until finally the fan motor fixed our problem.
452591
specs for the unit say .6A no load (standby) current draw so eventually it would pull battery dead if you did not have any charging on your battery bank, probably not a bad idea if leaving un-attended for long periods to have a battery disconnect for the inverter so you don't have some glitch that would allow inverter to possibly short and start a fire.