GO Power 1500watt Inverter Question.

 Does anyone know if you can turn off the "search" feature in the GO Power
1500 watt inverter model GP-SW1500-12 ?

We use them in our work vans and have found that when we plug in a drill,
you have to sit there with the drill turned on for 5 seconds or so before
the inverter kicks on.  A real p.i.t.a. when you have to do short quick
little drills.  Sometimes when we plug cordless drill battery chargers (and
other cordless items) in the inverter won't come on.  Our new lap tops don't
even activate the inverter, either.

Thanks for any help on this.

 
watt inverter model GP-SW1500-12 ?

have to sit there with the drill turned on for 5

do short quick little drills.  Sometimes when we

inverter won't come on.  Our new lap tops don't even

I dont know about the search feature, but if it can't be disable,
i would plug in a 110v/5watt light bulb with a on/off swith.

1. keep it on while drilling, to aviod the delay time.
2. use it to activate the inverter, when the other items wont do it, and then
    switch it off.



Jan Rasmussen

 

See page 8, section 5.4,  here
http://www.gpelectric.com/PDF/sineWaveInverters/M_GP-SW-1500.pdf .
Without a remote, and without any loads on line, the search function
can be toggled on and off by quickly cycling the power immediately
after boot-up. It looks like the idle load will go from about 1W to
about 12W.

Wayne

 Thanks for that!  We were going to do the lightbulb trick as mentioned
earlier, but will pass along that info to the others I work with.