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Well I was in two minds about buying the Aldi 300w inverter, due to it being a “Modified Sine Wave” model I would normally only consider the “Pure Sine Wave” type.
But the 3 year warranty and being able to return it to the store within 28 days for a full refund, if did not suit my purposes was what made my decision to purchase one.
Anyway as will only be using it to power my electric mains kettle of the car battery (with engine running) I thought I would get one.
The inverter is tiny, about a third of the size of my 600watt Mercury inverter, in fact the Aldi inverter just about fits into the palm of my hand.
The Aldi inverter handles a 300w load with ease, although the supplied cable is only 12awg (4mm) at 75cm they run warmer than I am comfortable with, I would have said the supplied cable should have been 10awg (6mm), I will be using 8awg (10mm) of a similar length.
I ran the inverter for 10 minutes, just for test purposes my real world use will involve it running for no more than 5 minutes at a time, probably less.
All in all, it seems a decent bit of kit for the price.
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Further update on the Aldi 300watt inverter, in that it turns out to be a "Modulated" Sine Wave not "Modified" Sine wave, which could explain why it works so well, I am not really sure what the difference is apart from "Modulated" might mean that it's a filtered output, so better than "Modified" but not as clean a Wave form as "Pure" Sine wave.
I would like to have a look at the Wave form, but I don't have an oscilloscope, but I am curios to see what it looks like, I know someone who has an oscilloscope, so it looks like they will be getting a visit from me..
All that I can say is that the Aldi inverter is running my 300watt (320watt) kettle no problem, even with the engine of, and pulling 27.50amps so around 90% efficiency, and just under the rated 28 amp max spec according to the manual.
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