After having some bad luck with the Renogy 2000 Watt & Renogy 3000 Watt Inverters I decided that it was a sign that I should have gone with my initial idea. So I bought the Victron Multiplus 2000 Watt Inverter/Charger. I did make one change though, and that was to alter my battery setup to be 24 volts instead of 12 volts. Since I'm using two Lynac 12.8 Volt 200 Amp Hour batteries it made this change very easy. I'm also using two Victron Solar Charge controllers so they are easy to switch to 24 volts. In another post I'll compare the difference I see between 12 and 24 volts systems. In terms of the Multiplus, the 2000 watt unit is very nicely made, and not too large and certainly not as large as I was fearing. The unit is solid, and a bit heavy at 13 kg (~25lbs) but it is relatively thin at 125mm deep (~5 in.) I did not have any problems setting it up, or even programming it via the dip switches. I was just testing it really to make sure everything worked. So far the set up has been pretty quick and everything works. I tested the battery charger with the Ryobi 1800 watt continuous inverter/generator and it pulled 1000 watts no problem into the batteries. You can set whether you want it to pull 30 amps or 50 amps via the dip switches, but I haven't been able to get that right yet. So far though it is a very nice unit and it should be for ~$1,200.
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