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28 Nov, 2019
Not a Mesa, but pretty cool!
For a little chinese 5 watter, this thing has tons of gain. Tone is actually decent. Definitely not a mesa/rectifier, but gets close enough. Has nice little send/return as well! It's really tiny as well. I am using it as part of a talkbox, and it does the trick nicely!
16 Jan, 2020
Cost effective starter solution for home solar.
1 of 1 found this helpful For the price and what it does, you cannot go wrong. PERFECT inverter for a starter off-grid system.
Something to keep in mind is that although you have AC IN from your house/generator, your AC OUT 'has' to be isolated from the IN circuit. That means no common neutral or ground. It won't work if you do. I ended up running additional circuits to each room in my house where I wanted to utilize the solar. I have it feeding two bedrooms, living room, and will ultimately have 12v feeds off the batteries to each room for lights.
The Watchpower software is something to be desired, but it does allow you to make changes to the inverter, instead of paging through the display (which isn't too difficult).
If I had to make the purchase again, I think I would have spent the additional 40 or so pound and purchased the mppt, as it utilizes the panels a little better.
What you will notice is that the panel voltage will drop from what you are expecting at open voltage, to whatever the battery voltage is. I haven't had many sunny days since I installed the inverter, but when the sun is out fully, the voltage will jump up to 14-16vdc, even with the battery low. But, you will see it drop down. I believe this is when the PWM kicks in to charge the battery, so the higher voltage you see is in between a pulse burst.
The only thing I can think of to make this better is to add an automatic setting to allow you to have the inverter switch from Line to Battery and vice versa at specific times. There are 3rd party programs that can do this for you.