Plugging shore power into inverter
I'm about to buy an inverter for my travel trailer. It has no 12 volt outlets, so I think ac is the easiest way to go. Can I plug the shore power plug (with an adapter) directly into the inverter an...
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JRRNeiklot wrote:
Now, I really want to use the microwave, so as I see it, I have a couple options. One: leave everything as is, and either do without the microwave or crank the generator if really needed. Two: Upgrade the inverter to this 2000 watt inverter. How much more drain will the bigger inverter be on my batteries?
JMO but powering a microwave oven using battery / inverter source power is about the quickest way I can think of for wasting valuable battery reserve that could otherwise be used so much more effectively for other purposes. I personally could care less about running the microwave oven when dry camping but if I did I'd simply power the entire trailer with our 2K genset.
As for inverter draw my own 1000 watt true sine wave inverter pulls 350 ma at idle, probably typical for this size, so it wouldn't surprise me if a 2000 watt version pulled twice that.
