corky52
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Old microwave died and in looking for a new one I ran across the Panasonic Inverter series, little more expensive but if they worked as advertised worth the $20.
The whole series has the same feature:
Inverter power supply, lighter weight, works well with low line voltage and don't care about wave form( works fine on MSW from cheap inverters)
Power is adjustable in a manner that actually keeps the power peaks down, not just cutting the peak time. The one I bought and tested actually drew 867 watts on the 900 watt setting. There are ten power settings, you can trade time to heat for lower peak watts consumed. At 300 watt setting coffee took 3.5 minutes to heat, but peak draw was always under 300 watts.
All in all after two days of testing and use I have to say the extra $20 was well spent.
Please do understand that this microwave doesn't save any power just changes the time you draw it over, a cub of coffee heat still takes 1200 watt/minutes, but you can do it on a smaller inverter if you don't mind waiting.
Corky
The whole series has the same feature:
Inverter power supply, lighter weight, works well with low line voltage and don't care about wave form( works fine on MSW from cheap inverters)
Power is adjustable in a manner that actually keeps the power peaks down, not just cutting the peak time. The one I bought and tested actually drew 867 watts on the 900 watt setting. There are ten power settings, you can trade time to heat for lower peak watts consumed. At 300 watt setting coffee took 3.5 minutes to heat, but peak draw was always under 300 watts.
All in all after two days of testing and use I have to say the extra $20 was well spent.
Please do understand that this microwave doesn't save any power just changes the time you draw it over, a cub of coffee heat still takes 1200 watt/minutes, but you can do it on a smaller inverter if you don't mind waiting.
Corky
