Can an inverter fail slowly resulting in an inability to power higher AC loads or does an inverter just fail fully resulting in an inability to power any AC loads?
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Phoenix Smart Inverter Slow Failure
Yes. It does depend on how much of an overload and how long you are sustaining the load.
You can experience derating because of heating internally and it can 'slowly die' due to high loads or high ambient temperature. So it cannot power the loads you are expecting it to. For example at least 1600w from a 2kva.
You can have a sudden shutdown also, usually due to massive overloads or a battery shutdown due to over current draw. It may seem sudden as there is no GX device to beep at you and let you know, unless you are watching the indicator lights.
Usually after they cool down they self recover, but I guess it would depend on the abuse dished out.
After overload it is usually 30seconds, three retries in total after but if the overload has not been removed then it will stay off.
