Truck Camper adding inverter
Would like to hear from people on there recent experience on adding an inverter. My goal. To power a 1350 watt microwave for 10 minutes at max power. I have two group 27 batteries and a 120 watt ...
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How close to the batteries will you be able to place the inverter?
I’m doing what you are wanting to do, though with a lower power microwave (950 Watts), a single group 31 battery, and a 1500 PSW inverter. Straight line distance between the battery and the inverter is less than 4 feet, but due to the route the cables had to take, a disconnect switch, and a CB in the circuit, the actual wire length is closer to 6 feet. I had to use “0” AWG welding cable to hook it up.
I’ve run the microwave from the inverter long enough to cook a frozen dinner just to see if it could do it. Most of the time though, if I need to use the inverter for the microwave my Yamaha 1000 is already running and will supply about half the current. The camper battery supplies the other half. I’ve run it like that for nearly an hour before the camper battery was down to 50%. The Yamaha can’t run the microwave by itself, which is why I installed the inverter.
:):)
I’m doing what you are wanting to do, though with a lower power microwave (950 Watts), a single group 31 battery, and a 1500 PSW inverter. Straight line distance between the battery and the inverter is less than 4 feet, but due to the route the cables had to take, a disconnect switch, and a CB in the circuit, the actual wire length is closer to 6 feet. I had to use “0” AWG welding cable to hook it up.
I’ve run the microwave from the inverter long enough to cook a frozen dinner just to see if it could do it. Most of the time though, if I need to use the inverter for the microwave my Yamaha 1000 is already running and will supply about half the current. The camper battery supplies the other half. I’ve run it like that for nearly an hour before the camper battery was down to 50%. The Yamaha can’t run the microwave by itself, which is why I installed the inverter.
:):)
