Choosing an Inverter

road-runner wrote:

One thing BFL is right about is that microwave draws more than it says on the label. They never tell you real ratings. 1000W micro will draw 1500W and 700W model will draw 1000W.

I disagree with this explanation. For example, the label on my 1250 watt cooking power microwave says it draws 12.7 amps on a 120 volt circuit. The problem is that some users incorrectly assume that the advertised wattage is an electrical spec, instead of the RF power spec that it actually is. I'd expect all of the microwaves to have a correct electrical spec on the electrical label. The owners manual specs for mine list "cooking power" as 1,250 watts and "power consumption" as 12.7 amps, 1,460 watts (which is 12.7 amps at 115 volts). They do tell you the real ratings, it's the users that mix them up.