If I wanted to power a single electric burner (1100 watts) could I use a 12v power inverter?
Power inverter question.
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by Kfd314, Dec 7, 2016.
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I have a 2000 watt invertor hard wired to the batteries and use use a little single burner hot plate but I have to run my APU or idle the truck or else it drains the batteries very quickly
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Well it says it's an 1100watt burner, so you'll need an inverter that can sustain at least 1100 watts, so I suggest at a minimum 1500watt sustainable inverter, and the only way to install one of those is to hard wire it straight to the batteries.
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No offense here but don't be stupid and try to play around with this stuff, drivers have died because they tried to circumvent wiring an inverter in incorrectly.
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Recommend a pure sine wave inverter over a modified sine wave the truck spots sell. Everything works much better. Will cost a bit more but we'll worth it. I had a 2000 watt Xantrex pure sine that worked great. They are about 350+.
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NOT all inverters, even the good expensive ones are designed to handle inductive loads so be careful to ask or check before plugging it in.
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