MrWizard wrote:
Boondocking, put fridge on propane and leave it there, it uses so little l.p., there is no need to switch back and forth with electric,
Microwave on half power, I doubt it, most used timed cycles, power on and off, when cooking at reduced power, so still use full power for half time
That's what mine does, and it's a Panasonic (supposed inverter MW)
I measured the power use with 3 different meters
Hair dryer on low, yes that's a heating element, and will work that way
Provided you have enough battery, for the run time needed
Use good 12ga or heavier extension cord, for the inverter out put
my panasonic true inverter microwave does NOT cycle power in reduced power modes. In full power it draws about 1600VA, at 50% it draws a constant 900VA. pretty linear between 100% and down to about 30% power. Unless there is a very large item in the microwave 50% power doesn't take twice as long to heat things up, more like about 1.5X. Things like cup of water, bowl of veggies etc. When running on the generator at other than 100% genny no longer cycles up and down in rpm like past microwave did.
Not sure that all panasonics operate this way but the recent one labeled as true inverter seem to.
