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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Cheaper or not, isn’t a huge factor.

    My really expensive sol-ark 12k cannot start my 110v air-compressor.

    The issue is, the rated L.R.A. ie, locked rotor amps, how much current it takes to get it started.

    My A/C motor, for example, uses around 20 amps @ 240v when running, ie ~5,000w. However, its L.R.A, is 112.0 amps @ 220v, ie- (24,640 watts). Which is more than the peak load my 12k inverter can handle. So- if you tried to start it on the inverter, well, it doesn’t work.

    https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/off-grid-ac/

    The same principle applies to anything with a motor.

    You have to evaluate the L.R.A. Remember, if you have say, a 5,000watt RMS inverter, which can handle a 10k peak- its not going to be able to start something that has a 14,000 startup draw.


  • Eh,

    When you have 50+ feeds, it has a lot of handy features.

    Like… blacklisting posts with keywords/regex, tracking things in categories, etc… And- it has a TON of options for configuring things.

    The ability to whitelist/blacklist certain posts is quite handy itself. For example- taking a feed like This one and being able to only grab the “update / releases”, and ignore all of the sales, giveaways, and other crap.

    The uh, configuration options for the reader you linked are pretty limited in comparison.

    Although, it does look nice, its missing the features to boot.