G'day Playfair (and anyone else that may be able to shed some light on the problem or possible solutions.)
I am from Australia, and I am desperately searching for a solution to when the power goes off at my place, for my fish.
I have located and built a system that is supposed to work. The link is below, however all the system seems to do is blow up inverters. Intermitently!
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/tr...kup_power.html
I am thinking that maybe the inverter is somehow receiving 240 volts? I have built the system exactly as described! (I have no electrical knowledge unfortunately!)
From the home made switch box there is a cable that runs for about 10-12 meters, there it splits via a normal double adapter and heads off to two air compressors. When combined they are only rated at 80 watts (240 Volts)
The system seems to fail when switching from 240 Volt house supply over to the inverter powered circuit. The inverter generally starts screeming "output short", however paradoxically it keeps powering the circuit, until the inverter is turned off by a resumption of mains power or if I turn it off. Then the inverter fails to function at all.
Can you see any problems or solutions?
I would like to thankyou for your valuable time and any assistance that you may be able to provide.
Thanks again Matthew...