Can I run my microwave off of battery power?

road-runner wrote:

DrewE wrote:
If you're interested in microwaving at all frequently from battery power, I would suggest getting a Panasonic Inverter microwave. The reason is that using lower power levels on it actually lowers the peak power consumption, rather than simply cycling full power as other microwave ovens do. With a barely sufficient battery bank that can make a substantial difference.

I think they generally work well on MSW inverter power, too, without much if any cooking power loss.

Have you actually run a Panasonic "inverter" microwave on MSW? I wouldn't want to make a broad statement from a single trial, but I can say that the one time I tried it, the microwave didn't cook at all, on any power level.

No, I have not tried it. Based on the general circuit design principles, I would expect it to do fine, but I don't speak from personal experience--hence the "I think" rather than a statement of fact. (As I understand it, the inverter part is basically just a high-voltage switching power supply, rather than the high voltage line transformer and voltage doubler circuit used by typical microwaves.)