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Vintage465's avatar
Oct 30, 2015

So I'm getting a 1000w inverter

So I have this Milk Frother for my wife's "Morning Cappuccino Adventure" that satisfies her pretty picky needs for Soy Cappuccino's. This little guy says it draws 600w, can't find anything regarding and "amp/hour draw". It runs for about three to five minutes on 110v to make a drink for her. So, if I buy a 1000w inverter, coupled with my back to back 6v golf cart batteries, this should theoretically power up this little rascal to make her drink. Am I right so far? So if I am right, how much of a dent is this gonna make in my batteries. This will be the only thing the inverter powers. There is a possibility that the furnace may get some use if the outside temp gets below 50 degrees. I have 300w of solar on the top with a Samlex Controller.

Thanks

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  • RoyB's avatar
    RoyB
    Explorer II
    I would mount your high wattage INVERTER as close to the battery terminals as possible and still be inside the trailer for weather protection. I would also use either 4AWG or 2AWG size cables and proper BLUE SEA fuse holder assembly.

    The high current will be on the 12VDC side between the battery and the Inverter. From there you can run an extension cord or hard wire in a wired up 120VAC receptacle near your kitchen area and this can be any distance away from the Inverter.

    You might find this also very nice to have to run your home entertainment setup for the times when you are camping off the power grid somewhere.

    We love our coffee too but find the electric coffee makers just draw to much current for us. Our plan when camping off the power grid is to have enough battery bank to do all the things we want to run using 120VAC with an Inverter and 12VDC items direct connected to battery terminals. this is planed out to do all of this in a one day/night run off the battery which requires us to re-charge the battery bank the next morning using our 2KW Honda generator to run our trailer on-board smart mode converter/charger to recharge our battery bank back up to its 90% charge state. Then we can do this all over again fro the next day/night run off the batteries. When I am running my generator i will make up my grind and brew bean coffee for the day brewed up into a thermos carafe. Like yours this only take takes around five minutes of being plugged into the INVERTER... The thermos carafe keeps it hot all day long...

    Doing it this way we get by just fine with a 600WATT PURE SINE WAVE INVERTER ($259 AMAZON).

    Roy Ken
  • Vintage, DW and I need our capps every day while boondocking and we love using this. After heating the milk it takes about 30 seconds to get a professional froth.
  • GoPower is $425

    #4 is about minimum, #2+ would be stout.

    #10 is a fuse.
  • 10 - 12 gauge wire for that kind of current draw is far from " stout". If you must run such small wire you had best keep the distance between the battery and inverter REALLY short. 2/0 wire would be a better choice for any distance between the two.
  • So I am looking at a Pure Sine Wave 1000w inverter from Northern Tools for like $250.00 plus shipping. Are there any brands to stay away from?

    V-465
  • Then the plan will be to give it a try. Not knowing much about inverters, should I try and keep in close to the 12v source or at least run stout wires(12-10ga) to where I mount this guy?
  • 600w = 50 amps draw at 12v, while in use
    Theoretically that's about 150 amp minutes or 2.5 amp hours of power use
    But since that is a fairly hard draw on one pair of series batteries
    Real world effect is closer to 5 amp hours of capacity
    Not a deal breaker unless she likes to have four our five cups