Originally, I got this as an indoor back-up power supply that I have running off of a 530 MCA deep cycle marine battery. I have another inverter that is 50 lower continuous output power (150 watts) and its internal cooling fan (bushings instead of ball bearings) quit. This unit says to have a Smart Fan, so I thought I give it a try. It runs much quieter than the 150-watt inverter with single speed cooling fan (when it used to run). I tried to get the cooling fan on this 300-watt inverter to run faster by increasing the load, but the fan didn't increase much on speed. But the inverter wasn't getting warm either as the load was only 212 watts, not the full 300 watts.Right now, I have the 300-watt inverter powering my 8-channel security camera set-up with DVR via since the old APC Smart UPS 700 keeps melting the batteries. The UPS doesn't stop charging the batteries when they become fully charged, causing them to overheat melt. So for now, the camera set-up is running off of the 300-watt inverter, which is running off of the marine battery, which that is charged by an automatic battery charger/conditioner. This current configuration will run the DVR cameras for 3 full days on a charge versus a couple hours on the UPS.
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!]