AIMS Power PICOGLF60W24V240VS 24 Volt Pure Sine Inverter Charger, 6000 Watt Low Frequency Inverter 110/220Vac Split Phase, 18000 Watt Surge, Battery Priority Selector, Terminal Block, GFCI

Upgraded to 5 stars!! Sorry I thought you were a PIG but it's because I compared you to my signal phase 3000w go power which i calculated that it ate about 45 watts at idle which didnt cause a great depletion on my battery bank. But this device is like two go power in one which mean I may need to double my bank. The auto batery charge is amazing ( one you figure out the right switch settings)Great device overall!!***NOTE*** If your manual is dated October 10th 2016, then it is out dated. The old manual only shows SW 1 ~ 4 the device has 5. I was flicking sw4 for ac/battery priority when it was actually sw5 that's not mentioned in old manual. Goto website and download the updated version. So far I haven't checked to see what else was outdated.Without a load connected to this unit, it draws at least 90 watts from battery bank. lost about 1 volt in a half hour. At that rate the charger will be kicking in every 3 or 4 hours. To keep this device kool and increase its lifespan, I have a portable fan blowing to the device to help circlulate standing air.I updated and upgraded my 1 star to 4 stars. After initial install and seeing my battery voltage rapidly drop, I thought my battery supply would be depleted but after watching 2 hours of television on my 60" DLP, fridge and lights running I went back to look at the battery voltage and it stabilized at around 25.15v. Good thing the sun will be coming up in a few hours. Guess ill work on the input/charging 220 wiring. :)

I was tired of continuing to replace my cheap Chinese 5000w inverter with more of them. I have had 3 of them that all ended up in the trash. I finally decided to get a real industrial strength inverter that I can depend on for long-term usage during a crisis.This AIMS inverter is WONDERFUL!!!! I have it connected to 24 golf-cart batteries and I have run over 180 amps at one time through it. This inverter will also start my large radial arm saw, large shop smith saw, my table drill / grinder / sander and a 1500w heater all at the same time. I Love it!!!The inverter is very heavy duty and weighs 84 lbs. It has flexibility to pull from batteries first with the main power line as backup OR pull from the main power line with battery backup with a simple dip switch. It has 240 split phase as 120 each. I have this now powering my breaker boxes for the entire shop and my barn. I am now going to set it up to run all 110 breakers for my home during an emergency. The AIMS inverter is GREAT!!! I highly recommend it!!!

The inverter works great, so far, however when viewing the amps sent to the battery from the charging feature it is very disappointing. The charger constantly cycles from 0 amps to 20 or 40 then cuts off and restarts, then slowly ramps back up, only to repeat that process. It's really only charging the battery at full power around 10% of the time. The instruction manual states the generator may not be supplying good enough power, but that is incorrect, because I tried 2 different generators and 2 different chargers. The Samlex Inverter was able to charge the battery bank at a constant 50A on both generators. So there's clearly an issue with the charger on this unit.

I got this to use as a battery backup for critical loads during power outages, as I live in a very rural location with a few times a year that ice storms or other events interrupt power for hours or days. In order to run furnace, pellet stove, well pump, etc durning winter outages without dragging out generator and running extension cords I put in a battery bank and a critical loads sub-panel. Given the capacity of the unit compared to my overall loads, this sub-panel actually runs about 90% of the house without any problem. To conserve battery capacity for the truly important things we need to manage usage carefully in case outage is more than a couple days.Shipping was quick, packaging was very good with double boxes providing total protection, instructions pretty good though a bit murky as others have mentioned. Installation was simple on a big custom shelf unit I built below the main breaker panel. It was designed to hold batteries, sub-panel and all necessary switching and wiring with minimal re-routing of existing branch circuits.Only thing I would note is that on both the AC and DC sides the sizing of connection points on the unit are just barely large enough to accept the recommended wire sizes. For maximum DC current draw at 6kw the wire size was 4/0. Crimped lug connectors on that size wire could not fit under the terminal covers provided so they had to be left off, in fact they barely fit on the lugs even without the covers. Also only one wire could possibly be put on the lug, so the two battery banks had to be joined and switched separately. On the AC side the 60amp wire size was 6awg, and again the connectors on the inverter were just barely able to accommodate the conductors. The cover box and wire clamps were a real challenge to get into place. I had complete access with no restrictions and it was still a struggle. I would suggest to AIMS that these two things could easily be made more roomy to accommodate the largest recommended wire sizes.Twice I needed to call the AIMS company to clarify a question the manual left unclear. Both times I was on the phone less than 2 minutes, got clear answers to questions it was obvious they have heard many times before, and problem solved. Don't even try to parse out the dip-switch positions, just call and tell them the application you wish to use it for and they will tell you the positions. In going back and comparing the instructions they gave me on the phone to the manual description, once I knew the correct positions it was possible to understand why those positions worked, but manual description really could never be trusted alone.Once all up and running, unit performs flawlessly. Switchover is invisible, nothing even blinks. The only problem is that I put so many of the normal loads on it that there is really no way to even notice power has gone out! That means you might not start shedding usage to stretch battery life as early as you should. I haven't figured out a warning for that yet, except for when I see my neighbor dragging out his generator and extension cords!!Then I woke up in the middle of the night a couple weeks later and realized that as beautiful as it was, now all my critical loads are fed through this unit, which means if I ever do have a failure nothing would work even when mains power was normal. Hmm... what to do? Solution was a second feed breaker from main panel direct to sub-panel bypassing the inverter, feeding normal mains power to sub-panel. By adding a cut-off switch on the output of the inverter I can completely isolate the inverter and run on normal mains power should the inverter ever need to be out for service or replacement. As I am away a lot I couldn't leave my wife in the dark, so she can now follow posted instructions to flip switches 1-2-3 and all is back to normal for her. So I can sleep again.I also got the remote control panel and just like all the other reviewers I find the same quite minimal benefit from it, compared to what you would expect. First it comes as a panel face with circuit board hanging off the back. That's it. Really?? I thought something was missing until I went and read the reviews. Nope this is all you get. So off the the woodshop to build a custom enclosure. I have seen others who carved out face plate of a regular blank junction box or something, but this is the only thing I have ever seen that doesn't have even the most basic box. Oh well, custom cherry enclosure it is, looks great mounted on the wall. Real shortcoming is the nearly complete lack of useful information. You get status, battery voltage, and load percentage. Period. Really? The most glaring lack is any measure of current draw, which is pretty much the most important information you could have to manage usage and estimate remaining life of battery bank. I am quite sure the information is inside the inverter but it is not available to user. You can do a bit of math and parse from the load percentage reading to get a rough estimate of your current draw but why not just give AC amps, DC amps, etc? And it would also not be that tough for them to allow you to put in the total battery bank capacity and then generate info on battery bank such as time remaining at current draw rate etc. These days the amount of info you expect to have available is a lot more than you get here. Too bad. Did I mention the cherry enclosure is pretty?Bottom line: after 3 months this unit works great for my purpose, and the support from AIMS has been great so far. I am very happy with it.