I have a new-to-me used mini trawler in which I am considering installing a inverter. I am looking at somewhere around a 2000 watt +/_ inverter. Does anyone have a recommendation as to what type, and brand I should look at?
Depends on what you want to power, and whether that needs pure sine wave or will work with quasi sine wave.
FWIW, we recently installed a 2000W pure sine wave ProMariner TruePower CombiPS inverter/charger (#0212, 110VAC, 12VDC, 70A charger). Says 2000W continuous and 6000W peak surge (which seems a bit adventurous).
No track record, so can't yet say whether it's wonderful or not. It's worked well enough, over these last couple months...
It wasn't comforting to learn the remote is labeled "quasi sine wave" -- even though it's PS -- because they're too cheap to provide two different remotes.
It was also a bit disconcerting to see that their profile setting #9, labeled as "Custom" -- which kind of implies to me that it's user-setable -- isn't used at all. IOW, "Custom" means "you can't use this."
(Their phone tech didn't seem to understand the nuance behind my questions when I called about those during installation.)
Still, our original charger is a ProMariner ProTech-4 model and it's worked OK over these last 14 years, and is still working fine on our other large battery bank... the inverter/charger size was right, the price was right (online shopping found decent discounts from MSRP; I paid about $850, which was something like 55% of MSRP)... and I've read the company is sometimes generous with discounts if units crap out and need replacement.
BTW, ProMariner and Sterling seem to be the same products; some kind of market-sharing thing...
-Chris