What to look for in an inverter/charger?
We recently bought a new fifth wheel (see sig) and now I need to research inverters. About twelve years ago we had a Xantrex Freedom 458 installed in our Toy Hauler. It was fantastic and it never ga...
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dedmiston wrote:how many? If it were two I wouldn't have done it either, but 4 is a different story. It could also have been a bad battery or loose terminal (if 4). With our MW load that works out to 40A ea. for (x) min. Not a bad ask but no for longSCVJeff wrote:
As far as running the microwave, we do it for a quick heat up or popcorn, anything longer than about 4 mins, we use the generator. It's all about battery capacity, the 2000w class inverters can run most microwaves given enough supply current.
I'm still gun shy about begging the batteries to do so much. When our kids were little and we got our first inverter, my daughter used the inverter to make toast instead of flipping on the gen. The toaster created such a load that it melted the positive terminal off one of our T105s. It looked like something out of the Terminator.
