Can I run it from a car battery using a power inverter? If so what would the be the minimum wattage inverter it could run on?
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As long as your inverter can provide the alternating current - the same as the standard power line voltage, for household items - then you are good - assuming your car battery, alternator and all electric circuits in your car is in good state of repair.
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Did you try the inverter? I would be interested in how it worked out for you. Some electric motors don't like modified sine wave inverters. The inverter would have to be at least 1500 running watts and the blower would be running it at maximum when it is pulling 12 amps. Note that most car alternators would have trouble keeping up with that much load for a long time. Be sure you turn off EVERYTHING in the car if you are going to do this.
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I'm not sure that I understand the question, but I will try to answer what I think is being asked. First, my inverter is directly connected to my power source on my truck. So I don't use anything that will run my truck batteries down while the truck is not running. If this Digital Inverter can be charged from a 110v wall outlet, then it will probably draw a lot of power to charge I would not charge it from my inverter unless my truck is running and I wouldn't be running anything else at the same time.. You could damage the electrical system in your truck and/or damage your inverters. Hope this helps.
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I wouldn't use an inverter for something like that. Most charging systems on vehicles aren't large enough to keep up with something like that. Occasionally for a few minutes would be ok just not continuous.
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this kit will work way beyond that as long as you have enough batteries to hook it up to.it can charge your van battery and run 12 volt appliances through your cigarette lighter or run 120 volt appliances with an inverter that can handle the amount of watts you want to use.be careful of sensitive electronics while using a cheap inverter.you may need a sine wave inverter.i would highly recommend a good group of deep cycle batteries.the more batteries the more you can run.check out youtube for lots of answers.hope I was able to help
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You could make it work, but it will be more trouble than its worth in my opinion...this runs on a 12 volt electrical system (Like most cars), not household 110 V....so you will need an inverter to power it.
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it will provide power until its source of 12 volt power dies, i have run mine all day day in day out for a year in harsh environment it powers my laptop, big printer, internet and phone chargers, air compressor at times, (run a direct connection with fuse to your battery for best results), use caution as it will warn you of low car battery but it keeps running and will kill it (my truck has 2 batteries). it is a great inverter, no problems
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I can run a 750W fan heater from mine, but since my inverter is installed in a Prius the small 12V battery (30 amp-hour) won't power it alone and needs charging from the Prius. Tripplite recommends two 75 amp hour batteries for a sump pump. YMMV
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If you have an AC outlet in your vehicle you should be able to do it. I would recommend having the vehicle running, so as not to drain your battery. It only operates on AC.
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Yes it will connect up to a car battery, you will have to purchase additional cables to go from the battery to the inverter because the inverter does not come with any. Depending on what you use this inverter for there is modified sine wave and pure sine wave, this inverter is modified sine wave, which means HDTVs and or devices like health equipment is not advices, laptops etc will run fine. My HDTV runs on it but it has a weird buzz.
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If your using one 12 volt car battery out of the car it won't supply that current for any useable amont of time even if the converter was capableof doing that, which it is not. It could maintain 800 watts continuous if the battery was in the car with the car running maybe even 900 watts,but that's it. As far as the connection to the battery I'll reserve the "duh" and say: positive to post marked +, negative to post marked -.
1953256
I use a 100 watt power inverter for the cigarette lighter in a car.. $20 is cheap..
616203
This unit has its own inverter and two ac outlets, but it's rated for 300 watts. Your crock pot might draw more current than that and I doubt you could run it for hours off the battery. Your car can do it because it's running and generating power. This unit's inverter is for smaller electronics, like charging cell phones.
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Sorry Kathy W. I just now found the notice of your question. I hope you got the help you needed, however since winter will be coming back around again I chose to give my answer just in case it might be of help. In short... No...However if you are talking about a good vehicle battery it is possible to use an inverter (DC-12V to AC-110V) I would not recommend a cheap one though, so it would be an investment but is very useful to run most household devices, i.e. toaster, lamp, laptop....I wish you well.
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In theory you can, but its not recommended and the NEC wouldn't approve. If you want to connect a 12 V battery to an inverter (to make it act as a power source) then look for an off-grid power inverter instead. They can come in 12V, 24V, 48V configurations.
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You can install an inverter to your battery and use the solar to charge it. You can not run an inverter directly from the solar panels.
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Yes, runs on a 12v battery. If you tried to run off your cigarette lighter, you could only used around 1/10 of the power (100 watts) before blowing the cigarette lighter 10 amp fuse. This unit designed to connect directly to 12v car battery.
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I can't see why not either. While driving, this gadget and the car's battery are both being charged by the car's system, which has many times the necessary output to run everything all by itself. You wouldn't want to use the inverter when you were charging the battery from the wall charger, but there's no reason to try that in the first place.