what size inverter.

JimK-NY wrote:

Veebyes wrote:
No harm in being a tad on the large size.

We have a 1000w pure sinewave but we never use it for the microwave or any other power hogs. The breakers for them are turned off when setting up for dry camping.

I mostly dry camp and have found a great substitute for an electric coffee pot. I also do just fine without using the microwave. I don't need to turn off the microwave breaker. It does not run with DC.

So why do you need a 1000w pure sine wave inverter? The TV which I do not use, is 12v. My wife's Cpap runs on 12v. I have 12v chargers for the computers, camera, cellphones and almost everything else I use. The only exception is the charger for the batteries for my camera flash. The few times that is needed, I plug in a cheapie 100 watt inverter.

If you noticed, I dont have any 120V in the camper right now and pretty much all I do is dry camp as the solar takes car of its self. I have a couple young grand lids and one is still very young and on the bottle, yes there are other ways to warm up a bottle in the middle of the night but the microwave is much more convenient and a lot faster. its not like we will be cooking dinner for an hour in it, but would be nice to warm up a breakfast muffin for 15 seconds or stuff like that. maybe even microwave popcorn....

so the question I asked isnt do I need a microwave, no I dont NEED one, but rather can I get away with a 1500 watt inverter if I install a 700 watt microwave.

Steve