Electrical Questions from a "real" newbie
Yep, we are "real" newbies, we finally bit the bullet and purchased our first TT. With it, I now find come a ton-o-questions. I fear I will be a frequent visitor to the forums but not much of a contr...
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When ever you are changing 12v to 120v unless you have a huge battery bank things like hair dryers or toasters or drip coffee pots anything that generates heat from the electricity produced is going to be hard to do. Unless you have a huge battery bank you can pretty much forget anything that produces heat. You can run your TV as long as its not a 48in plasma or something you can run radio or cell phone chargers. but you are always going to have a hard time with items that change the electricity into heat source. Or any appliance that takes a large amount of electricity. Electric heaters are certainly out with a 12v to 120 volt inverter. Your 2000 watt generator should run the Microwave as long as you don't have anything else drawing the power away from the oven. Like a water heater element being run at the same time or an AC running at the same time. Some times water heaters have an electric heating element along with LP you need to make sure the heater is turned to LP. A water heater can draw as much as 30 amps and you don't even know it's on. By the way welcome to the RVing club.
