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Review on ๐Ÿ’ก Go Power! GP-SW300-12: High-Efficiency Pure Sine Wave Inverter, 300 Watts, Yellow - Get Reliable Power On-The-Go! by Tim Burns

Revainrating 4 out of 5

*UPDATE* Back to work

*UPDATE 3* (3/10/2016) Still working, I'm telling you, not used 24/7. When I use it, I still like the low idle pull. He works in my cubicle, which has only LED lighting and a couple of phone chargers. Very handy to run all night while I sleep, no big idle and noisy fan but instant power when needed. *UPDATE 2* I finally got around to checking the warranty for this. You are in Canada. Having considered shipping this heavy stone, chances are they don't cover the warranty and I have to pay for shipping, the fact that they say they never fix blocks blah blah. Pooh. In my case, the device is not generating AC power, but the power status LED is green. So I took a chance and opened this up and found the GFCI socket was bad. I had a brand new part so I was back to work in about 5 minutes and for $5. They used a standard GFCI socket and actually cut off parts of the lugs to fit, which I had to replicate when replacing, but we're talking 20 seconds with some wire cutters. Day. One star deducted for that. Let's see how good the guarantee is. As with many other types of food, good foods differ from bad ones over time. However, I wanted to point out that I am very fond of this inverter at the moment. . For the price it has great specs and appears to be a very high quality device. Packaged DC cord, GFCI sockets, remote switch, ultra-low standby current and high efficiency are some of the things that impressed me. The idle power consumption is negligible. With a connected 6W LED light, the power consumption was 0.75A or 9.18W. It was bought for some basic LED lighting needs and excels at it. Another highly rated sine wave inverter I've bought has a higher 600W rating, so it's not exactly a fair direct comparison at low loads, but it should be noted that it jumps. between 0.15A and 0.8A at idle and constant at 1.22A with the top mounted LED display. In my case it's Go Power! The inverter really stands out compared to this use case. This unit looks identical to the Samlex 300W Inverter, SA-300-112.

Pros
  • 2 GFCI protected sockets for connection
Cons
  • Updates