The good news is that sine wave inverters are no longer expensive in the context of an off grid system. The bad news is that they seem to idle at about 3% of ma

The good news is that sine wave inverters are no longer expensive in the context of an off grid system. The bad news is that they seem to idle at about 3% of maximum power capacity. This can easily be your largest energy consumer if you build for infrequent substantial loads.