Looking for recommendation of 1000W off grid inverters for solar installtions

[SolarTrap]

Hello,

I am looking for a solid and reliable 24VDC MSW inverter for 120V outputting around 1000W. I own a PowerBright 24V, 900W inverter which does a very good job but I recently recommended that same model to two friends and they both had a very bad experience: one was bad out of the box and the other died after a week of usage. So either there is a quality control issue or they did a new revision of the circuit board.

Any suggestions on good inverters?

Markus

 

[mikekilroy]

either there is a quality control issue

huh? how do you conclude this from such a small sample?

they did a new revision of the circuit board

quite a weird assumption jump huh? when did a revision on a pcb automatically point to reason for a failure?

I would not jump to any conclusion from this... ok, maybe I would make one hypothesis to check out: that your two friends misapplied it. it is much more likely they overloaded the outputs or exceeded the max input voltage.

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[SolarTrap]

Both installations were executed by me and they both had my unit as a test before - my unit worked flawlessly in the exact same setup. I have lost confidence in that unit now.
I am just looking for recommendations for a solid inverter that is reliably able to run a refrigerator.

 

[genhead]

What's the electrical rating of your refrigerator?

 

[SolarTrap]

The plate reads 7A, 120V. Measuring the DC draw by the inverter I get 150-160W once its running and 1500-1600W to start the compressor. That start surge is about half a second long.