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Horrendous customer service and unreliable product
I have had nothing but problems with this inverter. It is completely unreliable. The OST is continually tripping the unit, which causes the AC to turn off and everything attached to it. After months of the unit tripping, it finally permanently failed, error code 529, and almost caught my camper on fire. It took weeks to get the smell out. I'm a seasoned electrical engineer with many years of power supply design experience, so I know the unit was installed correctly with very heavy wires, and located closed to four 125Ahr batteries in a clean, dry and well-ventilated area.
After sending over five emails to customer service, I finally received a response after threatening to write a bad review on the internet. They instructed me to send the unit back to NY, and they would look at it. I know it was delivered through a tracking number, but after numerous emails, I still have not received even an acknowledgment that they received the unit...very frustrating to say the least.
My 2 cents...buy from a more reputable company with customer service. You may need to spend twice the money, but it is worth every penny to get something that you can install, forget and enjoy for many years.
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Purchased at the end of 2011 for use in my motorhome. Connected to battery bank of 480 amp hours with appropriate size wire, wire lengths, and fuses. Worked fine the first three trips (a total time of about three weeks) using it only during the evenings to watch a couple of hours of tv every few nights. This last trip I turned it on to let the kids watch some tv while heading to our destination and found that it's output was running between 137 and 160 volts instead of the 120 it is designed for. The voltage burned up a portable tool battery charger. Thankfully the tv is okay. Was going to contact Sunforce, but have read enough negative customer service (or the lack of it) comments, that I think I'll just forego the stress, learn the lesson, and not buy anymore Chinese junk. Going out to buy a real inverter from a stick and brick store.Best Deals for Sunforce 11260 2500 Watt Pure Sine Wave Inverter
** UPDATE **: The 2nd unit fried as well. Big smoke came out of it, hopefully nothing was hooked to it when this happened. It looks like a very unreliable product.If you are looking for a 2500W true sine wave power inverter, this is probably the cheapest and it will do a decent job as long as you don't have appliances that require a big peak wattage for starting a motor.
The main annoying feature is that if your input voltage gets too high (>14.5V) or too low (
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