Pro Power Onboard - preferences?

[NW Ontario Ford Lightning]

Any inverter that is 'on' ie producing 120/240AC from a DC source is using some idle current to do so, even if there are zero AC loads.
The best inverter equipment has very low idle current draw, while cheap stuff uses quite a lot.
My very first 6kW inverter I bought for solar-battery system had 80W idle current - 1.9kWh per 24 hour day!
Better equipment like Victron sells can be around 10-20W idle current.
I suspect the two truck inverters are pretty low idle current, not zero thou, unless you switch them off.

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[RedLightning86]

Pro power sucks down 400 watts an hour if you are converting to AC. BETTER OFF getting a Jackery or other lithium battery instead of killing miles of charge before you even talk about whatever you are powering, at least while camping. If you are charging frequently it wont matter

 

[RLXXI]

Pro power sucks down 400 watts an hour if you are converting to AC. BETTER OFF getting a Jackery or other lithium battery instead of killing miles of charge before you even talk about whatever you are powering, at least while camping. If you are charging frequently it wont matter

I'm running twin dash cams with built in dvr using propower 8 hours a day and am using right at 1230W for the entire day. That's just under 154W/hour. That's the draw of the inverter AND the dual channel cams/dvr combined.

The amount of power use is miniscule. My results are obtained with a 2025 Flash, YMMV.

 

[RLXXI]

Any inverter that is 'on' ie producing 120/240AC from a DC source is using some idle current to do so, even if there are zero AC loads.
The best inverter equipment has very low idle current draw, while cheap stuff uses quite a lot.
My very first 6kW inverter I bought for solar-battery system had 80W idle current - 1.9kWh per 24 hour day!
Better equipment like Victron sells can be around 10-20W idle current.
I suspect the two truck inverters are pretty low idle current, not zero thou, unless you switch them off.

Dang that 1st one you got must have been really cheap lol. 80W for a 6k !?!? I've got a few 5k's in the closet they pull about 15 each, my main 12k is right at 21W Idle.

 

[NW Ontario Ford Lightning]

Pro power sucks down 400 watts an hour

Was "400W' idle confirmed somewhere?

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