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Review on Victron Energy Phoenix 500VA 12V Pure Sine Wave Inverter for 120V AC Power by Donald Vargas

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Mini fridge not working

I have purchased a Victron Energy Inverter, Phoenix 12V 500VA 120V with Victron VE. Direct Bluetooth Smart Dongle [ASS030536011] which I thought would work great with the Victron BMV-712 battery monitor with Victron Energy temp sensor for BMV-702/712 which I bought earlier and would like to have one running a small mini fridge in my RV, matching my killer watts, draws a maximum of 375 watts starting and 75 watts running, not enough to run my mini fridge in our summer kitchen in our RV. As soon as I plug in the mini-fridge the error light comes on and stays on and the mini-fridge powers on for a second then shuts off and this keeps repeating. I went to Walmart and bought their cheap 1000w inverter for $90 and it works great and it has a digital power meter that shows my mini fridge is only 390-410w when starting up and 80w when running consumed. I'm very disappointed that this huge inverter (in terms of physical dimensions) doesn't work with a small mini fridge like a cheap Walmart inverter!

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