Amazing router work there... never seen a routed board before. Thanks for that
I use a normal 130ltr hot water unit for water heating. It is time clocked to come on at 10am, and clock drops out at 4pm.... usually runs for 2 hours in the am, and usually 30 mins top up in the afternoon before the timer shuts down....basically the same as the original night rate hot water heaters did... but opposite times of the day.
It is heavily insulated beyond the original urethane stuff it has originally.... They loose a massive amount of heat in their original guise.
On another place that has a proper commercial inverter ( victron thing ) he does not have the power that I have in my inverters, so we put a capacitor in series with the line voltage, that cuts his element power from 2500w down to only 1000w or so ( about 100 to 150uf or so from memory). This stops his victron from having a fit, and lets his batteries see a lower amp drain........ so the Peukert effect is better for him too..... just another over priced toy those victron things.... for all the money he spent on the victron, he cant start a 3hp motor .... just silly.
As expected the VA is high on the AC side, and would indicate that you are wasting power.... but the battery drain is much lower, and reflects the 1000w only, as most of the VA is out of phase ( voltage and current ), so the 1500w lost as a vector thing, not as a real loss.... ( wattless current).... better than using triac switching to achieve the same thing.... that would bother the inverter greatly.
.................oztules