So i had an inverter wires ran with 4 wires total all 4gauge wires. 2 Black 2 Red. It works fine when my laptop and fridge and printer. This is a 2000 watt inverter, When my black microwave from walmart comes on its tripping my inline breaker. Could this be the cause of bad truck batteries? I know i need all new ones. I do run my truck when im running it and its the yellow one from loves 2000 watt. Says something like LUP
Ran inverter but keeps tripping breaker.
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by TruckerPete1990, Jun 30, 2015.
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How many watts is the microwave?
If it is say 1500, then you need to add the startup current into the equation to the wattage of the inverter.
Also thinking about it, I've got an inverter that I bought a while back that says on it 2000 watts but when I looke at it after I installed it, it said 2000 watts peak and 1100 watts constant power. -
Microwave is no more then 750 watts
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You are overloading it. Micro waves take A LOT of power shut off everything else before you use it. You need to look at getting a 700 watt micro wave. Like Ridgeline said the inverter is probably 2000 peak do some reading and math on both mirco wave and inverter or you will kill your battery's. The fridge is eating up a lot power already and you are more then likely using a power strip which is a no no.
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With fridge running laptop printer hotspot and microwave it never went about 800 watts total useage. The fridge is 60 watts.
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The microwave maybe 750 running, but what is the surge value? It may spike at 1200. The surge is alot higher when it first turns on. Todays inverters are not 2kw all the time. I would not be surprised if you find you actually have a 1.5kw with a 2kw surge. You may need to get a second one of those inverters just to run the microwave. Otherwise you will probably need to get a 2.5kw inverter (2500 watt peak, 2250 load).
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How many amps is the breaker rated?
If you keep tripping it it will get weak and will handle less amperage over time. -
Hmm the breaker is 100amp. Maybe it's too small breaker?
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You sure it's 100 amps? That should not trip with a inverter.
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Yea its 100 that's why I'm wondering if it's not just the cause of bad batteries
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