[RE-wrenches] 2500 W inverter for $300

[Jason Szumlanski]

Are they missing the fact that the inverters used for battery backup RE
applications are also high output sophisticated battery chargers and
transfer switches all built into one integrated unit intended to work
together with available monitoring and coordination with charge controllers?

I normally want to tell people "good luck," too, but I've found that pretty
much everyone is an engineer these days and they must sleep at Holiday Inn
Express every night. I have found myself providing lengthy rebuttal emails
routinely. I take it on a case-by-case basis, and I put a professional
salesperson between me and the customer.


J
ason Szumlanski
Fafco Solar


On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Drake <drake.chamberlin at redwoodalliance.org
> wrote:

>  At 11:08 AM 8/9/2013, you wrote:
>
> Unless they are a continuing customer or a friend, I would be inclined to
> tell them good luck.
>
> PLEASE call someone else, asap!
>
> **
>
> ** This is happening with continuing customers that are friends. What is
> needed are some solid technical reasons to give them, but do to my lack of
> experience with this stuff I have no data.
>
> With so much being made in China now days, it is hard to argue
> convincingly that an item is low quality because it was made there. I argue
> that we get what we pay for, but some hard data is needed.
>
> Can we say that these inverters are:
>
>    - less reliable?
>    - the true sine wave, waveform is not really so good?
>    - these units will burn their house down?
>
> When they can buy 4 or 5 of these for the price of a name brand sine wave
> inverter, they could keep a spare unit on hand. It would be good to have
> some hard data as to why they should get an Outback or a Magnum.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drake
>
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