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How to Select the Right Inverter for Your Home?

You Need UPS or Inverter? What Capacity of Inverter is Good for You? How Much Back-UP will You Get? What Battery Capacity You Need?

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How to Select the Right Inverter in 3 Simple Steps?

Selecting the right inverter for your home has become a tough task these days. There are so many terms we need to understand 800VA/ 1000VA, Tubular Batteries/ Flat Batteries, Half -Load/ Full Load and the list goes on. And on top of all these, availability of multiple power back up solutions and misleading information provided by sellers has further added to buyers woes. So here Im sharing with you 3 simple steps to ensure you dont have to rely on sellers for suggestions any more. Here we go.

So What do You Need UPS or Inverter?

This is one of the basic confusion people face, so let me start with answering this first. UPS and Inverter are words used interchangeably though there are not exactly same. UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) is just a system which allows INSTANT switchover to the power back-up source in case of a power failure. The power back-up source can be a battery or something else. Whereas an Inverter is a system which converts direct current to alternate current hence enables using a battery for backing up equipments running on AC power supply. Inverter uses a battery to provide power back-up. Computer UPS comes with in-built battery which works as back-up power source and can provide back-up for 15min. to 30 min. So if that much of back-up is sufficient for you, you should be fine with buying just a UPS for your need. But Inverter comes with more powerful battery and can provide support for electrical equipments, computers, home appliances etc. and also gives more hours of back-up. Most of the inverters come with in-built UPS which ensures that power failure doesnt cause fluctuation and your system switches instantly to Inverters Power Back up battery.

What VA of Inverter is Good for You In 3 Simple Steps

Once you are sure that you are looking for an Inverter, its important to calculate the capacity of Inverter that will suit your requirement. Following table will give you brief idea about the power consumed by various equipments. Sl. No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Equipment Tubelight Fan Television Laptop CFL Modem, Router etc. Approx. Wattage 60 70 120 100 25 50

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Now you are in a position to understand as what capacity inverter do you need and Ill let you do that in 3 simple steps 1. Calculating your power need Now Ill explain you how to use above table to calculate the right capacity Inverter for your need. Lets say you need Inverter to run 2 Tube lights, 3 Fans, 1TV and 1 Laptop. As per the table above, youll need a total power of 550W(=2X60 + 3X70 + 1X120 + 1X100) to support all of your equipments at the same time. Your Total Power Need = 550W 2. Calculating required inverters capacity Now that you know how much power is required, its easy to get the VA rating of inverter. In ideal condition, the VA rating would have been same as the power need i.e. 550VA. But in practical conditions, the power factor of Inverter is less than 1 hence power supplied by 550VA Inverter wont be 550W but lesser than that. Assuming power factor of Inverter to be 0.7, following are the details of calculation Required VA of Inverter X 0.7 = 550W Required VA of Inverter = 550/0.7 = 786 VA Now luckily we have inverters available in the market with 800VA capacity, so such inverters will fit into my requirement. 3. Calculating battery capacity Till now, you will have clear understanding of the Inverter capacity required for your need. But the next question is that how much back up will the inverter provide and for how many hours you can run all of your equipments. And thats where battery capacity comes into picture. Its the battery which determines the back-up hours. The higher capacity battery you have, the more back-up hours youll get. So lets get into the calculation fast. Required power(in Wattage) X Required back-up hours(in Hours) = Inverter Voltage(in Voltage) X Battery Capacity (in Ampere Hours) Lets look for an Inverter which can give back-up of up to 3 hours, so for our case 550W X 3Hours = 12V X Battery Capacity Battery Capacity = (550 X 3)/12 = 137 Ampere Hours

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So we need a battery of 137AH capacity but if you check the market youll find batteries of 130AH capacity. So that should be more or less sufficient for your need. One more factor you MUST NOT forget about the battery never go for a dry/flat battery. You should always stick to Tubular Type batteries. Tubular batteries do require filling of water once in 4-5 months but definitely last for a minimum of 5 years. Whereas dry/flat batteries might come cheaper and require no maintenance, but cant survive for more than 2 years and are always a big burden in terms of cost in long term.

Conclusion
Finally, we have come to the conclusion that if we go for 800VA Inverter with 130AH Tubular battery, we can run 2 Tube lights, 3 Fans, 1 TV and 1 Laptop for up to 3 hours. In fact if you run only 1 Tube light and 1 Fan, it can run for whole night i.e. 8-10 hours. And by the end of this article you dont need to rely on sellers for understanding your need as you can do the calculations yourself in just 3 simple steps. Hope this article helps you in some way in making the right decisions. Let me know if you need any other inputs.

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