Home Inverter Installation, Advise needed

go to local distributor … inverter price are negotiable. then compare online…. look for longest warranty product. avoid exide battery.

well, i also need to buy an inverter for my home,
can anyone suggest me everthing, from scratch…

my requirements:
2 fan + 5 cfl + 1 lcd tv

should give backup of 3-4 hours when all above things are used (in on condition),

and, please suggest me a good deal also..

op: sorry for writing in ur thread, but i was thinking to create a new thread, and then thought as to why create a new when u do have a thread on almost same thing, hope u don’t mind..

Thank you @djrohan . I’ll try that out. @srp321 , no issues. This thread, pointed out to me by DealSeeker might help you too: http://www.desidime.com/forums/dost-and-dimes/t...

Go for Exide inva tubular. Non tubular batteries are not suggested for inverter. Buy microtek sinewave 800 kva e2 model inverter. It should suffice your needs. Battery is the costlier component in home inverter setup. Exide invat
Tubular 150 ah is good.

@vinaythewanted wrote:

Go for Exide inva tubular. Non tubular batteries are not suggested for inverter. Buy microtek sinewave 800 kva e2 model inverter. It should suffice your needs. Battery is the costlier component in home inverter setup. Exide invat
Tubular 150 ah is good.

What you are suggesting will probably end up costing him around 18K. I have this exact setup at my office for the servers.

@suhask757 If your budget allows for this, then this is definitely a good setup.

@DealSeeker wrote:

@vinaythewanted wrote:

Go for Exide inva tubular. Non tubular batteries are not suggested for inverter. Buy microtek sinewave 800 kva e2 model inverter. It should suffice your needs. Battery is the costlier component in home inverter setup. Exide invat
Tubular 150 ah is good.

What you are suggesting will probably end up costing him around 18K. I have this exact setup at my office for the servers.

@suhask757 If your budget allow for this, then this is definitely a good setup.

I also have similar set up (Luminous sine wave inverter & Exide Inva Tubular IT 500) at home. Working fine for the last few years.

I have microtek sinewave 850 kva inverter and Exide IT500. Working fine since 5 years.

@dimepincher wrote:

@DealSeeker wrote:

@vinaythewanted wrote:

Go for Exide inva tubular. Non tubular batteries are not suggested for inverter. Buy microtek sinewave 800 kva e2 model inverter. It should suffice your needs. Battery is the costlier component in home inverter setup. Exide invat
Tubular 150 ah is good.

What you are suggesting will probably end up costing him around 18K. I have this exact setup at my office for the servers.

@suhask757 If your budget allow for this, then this is definitely a good setup.

I also have similar set up (Luminous sine wave inverter & Exide Inva Tubular IT 500) at home. Working fine for the last few years.

Luminous 12v single battery 1500va inverter 6500. Decent inverter battery 150ah Rs. 11500.

Going for a larger ups makes you future re proof and at time you want to run a laser printer it will work on this inverter. Plus 12v means will run on a single battery.

Hardly any price difference between 850va 12v and 1500va 12v

@suhask757 wrote:

Thank you @djrohan . I’ll try that out. @srp321 , no issues. This thread, pointed out to me by DealSeeker might help you too: http://www.desidime.com/forums/dost-and-dimes/t...

thanx for pointing out the thread op, but i don’t use desktop pc at home, so i could spare the sine wave inverter, i could go with the less costly square wave one…
also, the thread wasn’t of much help for me…
could anyone help me out here

dharmanath481: thanx for telling me something… i will look for deals now…

Squarewave inverter might damage some of your home appliances. You will here humming noise in appliances with square wave.

@srp321 wrote:

@suhask757 wrote:

Thank you @djrohan . I’ll try that out. @srp321 , no issues. This thread, pointed out to me by DealSeeker might help you too: http://www.desidime.com/forums/dost-and-dimes/t...

thanx for pointing out the thread op, but i don’t use desktop pc at home, so i could spare the sine wave inverter, i could go with the less costly square wave one…
also, the thread wasn’t of much help for me…
could anyone help me out here

dharmanath481: thanx for telling me something… i will look for deals now…

@srp321

YOU GAVE INSUFFICIENT DETAILS TO WORK WITH ( sorry for caps )

to give you basic idea i will assume the wattage of your equipment

if we assume the fan is 60 watts and cfl is 27 watts and led TV is 100 watts, it sum upto 355 watts , so a 85% efficient inverter should be at-least 417 watts, ie 500 watts should be enough for you (limitation of 12V is introduced)

square wave is for brave hearts , you may look for modified sine-wave/quasi wave or the costlier sine wave, of all the players in the market, i deeply respect Numeric, their engineering is quite good

now the actual calculation

as you said you need 2 fan + 5 cfl + 1 lcd tv, so again i am assuming you need all these to work simultaneously for 4 hrs so tha equates 355 watts X 4 hrs = 1420 watts,so few may tell you , a 150 AH on a 12 Volt system would fetch you enough ( 1800 watts ), but wrong a inverter / ups needs power to run it self too so the actual capacity should be (1530 watts)

now you may think i need 1420W and the available is 1530W so isn’t it perfect , again no because batteries should never be deep discharged, , in fact it is a good habit to discharge only to a half cycle. so that means you should only use 700 watts in 4 hrs time, as we have a limitation here , since we are in a 12V system and unless we add a 24 V card to the inverter / UPS we can not use 2 battery in a 500 VA inverter / UPS .so that leave us to 200/225 AH battery

when coming to battery i have no respect for Exide,they are useless now. if you have money hunt for a C10 battery (ratting)
southern battery makes invader series , these are the best available to us in market, many will tell you C10 is a over kill, it is for aeroplane only and … but believe me you will never ever regret. else look for a decent C20 battery with solid Plates.

some battery will state it holds good for 500 deep-discharge cycle, but they aren’t.

@srp321 bro you were absolutely Rude in your last post, guys were helpful they could based on incomplete inputs and then you say thread was of not much help?

You could have Google for all the info in the world about inverter but you wanted a helping hand and people did try help …

No more spoon feeding for you bro. Plz do your own homework. Apologize to the fellows on the thread and come with detailed question we will be there to help.

@dharmanath481 wrote:

@srp321 bro you were absolutely Rude in your last post, guys were helpful they could based on incomplete inputs and then you say thread was of not much help?

You could have Google for all the info in the world about inverter but you wanted a helping hand and people did try help …

No more spoon feeding for you bro. Plz do your own homework. Apologize to the fellows on the thread and come with detailed question we will be there to help.

@dharmanath481 sir, if i was rude in my last post, then by all means, i am really sorry for it, i didn’t suppose it would come out as rude…

i sincerely apologize to all my fellow dimers, if i have meant rude in any ways to them,

the thread to which i am referring to is mostly for the people who use computers at their homes (so, i thought that it might be irrelevant in my case), i guess my incomplete inputs were due to my lack of knowledge on the subject..

again, i do apologize to everyone..

@Annamalai Nārāyaṇa very thanks for your help, if my conclusion from your post is true then :
1. i need a c20 battery (possibly of 200AH, or else of 150AH)
2. i need a inverter of 500 VA??? (will 500VA be adequate, as i was going for 650 or 800 VA inverter..)

well, i finally thought to buy a 650 VA (probably sine wave) with 150AH battery (local make)

fan- 60 watt
cfl- 18 watt
led/lcd- 70 watt (avg)
total around 250watt (in extreme case: max 300 watt)

will this be good enough??

I went in for a 650 VA. Then my family requirements increased so had to upgrade to 875va.
But now that has increased to 1.5kva since I need to run laser printer on it.

Had I known earlier would have gone straight for a 1.5kva.would have saved a lot.

@dharmanath481 wrote:

I went in for a 650 VA. Then my family requirements increased so had to upgrade to 875va.
But now that has increased to 1.5kva since I need to run laser printer on it.

Had I known earlier would have gone straight for a 1.5kva.would have saved a lot.

+1

KG.

@srp321: Never do the mistake of underprovisioning. Overprovisioning is always better in the long run and nobody buys a power backup solution for the short term.

also you have to change battery every 2 or 3 year.

they take old battery for 2k rupees.