THESE MUST BE OPERATED UNDER LOAD OR THEY WILL SMOKE.
At least that is what happend to mine.
Jimmie
Oh, sorry to hear that. Yeah, it's a bad idea to operate
any switch mode power supply without a minimum load unless
the min. load is built-in or the thing is so inefficent that
its own losses make up the minimum load. The output diodes
probably didn't like that... just my guess.
I found some interesting stuff on the panasonic inverter.
On the fusor chat they claim it's 85% efficient and good for
1200W. The efficiency seems right, the 1200W seems... optimistic.
Also this, instructions on getting the inverter to play.
http://www.fusor.net/board/view.php?...er&key=1162079
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