Small AC motors and Inverters
Disappointed that my ancient Mod Sine Wave inverter (140W cont, 200W surge) shuts down with a 120W coffee grinder. Works ok with the 400W (cont) MSW inverter built-into the truck, though a little ...
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SoundGuy wrote:
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JMO, but I'd forget the hair dryer, forget the toaster, or anything else that draws anywhere near as much power, as I suspect you too would find this inverter won't perform to your expectations unless you do use the heaviest gauge cable practical to feed it and to keep those cables as short as possible.
Yep. Then I would go to 4ga wire and maybe an 80A fuse.
That low a fuse to protect the Inverter which sounds more like 900W continuous, or 72A at 12.5V. Could go higher, say 100W, just to protect the 4ga cable, according to the Blue Sea tables. But suspect that would blow out the Inverter ala BFL and you.
