I want to run a 900 watt ac unit with my car battery. will this inverter work for that?
1319299
No Way. the peak load for an AC unit is probably (3) times the running load (which already exceeds the 500 watt rating of the inverter).
1319300
No way, Air Conditioners are the most energy demanding home appliance. To run even that small AC unit you need at least 1500 watts inverter doe to high starting power required, and you also need a huge 1200 Amp deep cycle battery bank, not your car battery and many solar panels to charge your batteries.
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The rating is 500 watts, so you should not expect to do any more. The 1000 watt peak really only takes care of start up, since the initial load is always more than the operating wattage.
1319302
I have not tried, but I would not think so! I think you would need more wattage!
1319303
Should but for a short time. If your going to run it constantly then go big.
1319304
i don' recomended you need a bigger like 2000 watts you can run 1000 watts continuous
1319305
Not a chance, this inverter is for small appliances. Lamps, hand drill, charging battery's , radios.
2076503
Im not sure about the AC unit. we use it for lights and TV at our camp, I am not very happy with this inverter, we have had trouble with the alarm going off at 12.2 all the time. sometimes it work good and others no so good, it seems to have a mind of its own. Sorry not much help.
888368
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.
616914
These inverters are only 80% efficient. That being said I would only run 100w max so you do not have any issues. Your cigarette lighter has to have a 10 amp fuse at least.It will work if you do not exceed 100-120 watts. Electronics usually have a tolerance of +/- 20%.If you hookup a fused line directly (8 gauge min) to your battery you can use the full watts capacity of this inverter.
1606651
This works as a battery maintainer, not a battery charger. If you want to charge a battery for a power inverter, you need a much larger solar panel. To put this in perspective, this provides around 2.5 watts maximum. The 12v power plug in most cars is capable of more than 100 watts. I have mine attached to a deep cycle RV battery and it will barely maintain the charge, even with the battery disconnected fro the trailer.
1306599
The inverter is a 3500 W. 4 1500 W equals 6000 w. That would mean you would need 2. I use this inverter on my boat. It runs a household refrigerator of approximately 1800 W. The best thing about this inverter is that it will shut down if it is back fed. Since I switch from AC to DC this feature is extremely valuable. I would recommend this inverter because I have tried Xanax and I burnt out 4 them. As far as the amount of battery you need it all depends on how long you going to run the unit.
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Charles E. Embury Sr. said on February 21, 2015 | EditThe inverter is run off of the battery being charged by your panels and has nothing to do with the charging system or the controller. As long as your battery or batteries are charged the the inverter will supply power for you up to the rating of the inverter ,good for running low amp items so as to not kill your battery.
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Depends on the amperage of the inverter and what you are trying to power up. Anything that is high draw should have a dedicated circuit right to the battery. I wouldn't even recommend a high amp or watt inverter be plugged in to the factory outlet let alone an add on.
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Look at the watts your compressor consumes. It must be 1500 or less watt. This inverter only achieves 110-120 volts.It doesn´t work with appliances more than that. You need DC cables to conect to the battery.
1606652
This works as a battery maintainer, not a battery charger. If you want to charge a battery for a power inverter, you need a much larger solar panel. To put this in perspective, this provides around 2.5 watts maximum. The 12v power plug in most cars is capable of more than 100 watts.I have mine attached to a deep cycle RV battery and it will barely maintain the charge, even with the battery disconnected fro the trailer.
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Sorta. AC watts output and DC watts input are not quite the same thing. I would be thinking "amps" instead of "watts". First, this is a modified sine wave inverter. It will work on most appliances, but not all. 3,000 AC watts in appliances is within specs for this inverter. However, if you think one or two batteries connected to it will work...I wouldn't even try. To run that much power, you are going to need at a minimum of 4-6 batteries wired in parallel (12v) with very large battery cables (0-gauge or thicker). At 3,000 AC watts this inverter will likely draw over 250 amps from the batteries. A typical deep cycle marine battery will have 100-125 amp/hours. When you parallel, you add amp hours. Two batteries (200-250) or four batteries (400-500 amp hours). Running 3,000 watts AC out of this inverter is possible, if you have enough batteries, thick battery cables, and something to recharge them...cause you will drain them QUICK. Your battery cables must be rated to handle this much amperage. Download the Power Bright Owners Manual, call them, or do a Google search...be safe. Good luck.
2067997
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.
375513
That's a great battery for an inverter, but I wouldn't go any larger on the inverter with that size battery. Just watch your usage and time so that you don't run the battery all the way down.
164107
The one we got was the 500 Watt inverter. We don't have information on the 900 Watt one. So sorry.
1355934
I will have to get back to you on that question. I assume your inverter output is modified sine wave?Anyway i do belive you can charge the unit with dc power using a male male cord to go into your cigarette lighter. look up the manual online, it will say for sure.
1047690
Yes you can but you must have at least a 400 Watts continuous 800 Watts peak DC to AC inverter. I will also recommend you to use a Cobra. It works perfectly only on those conditions if you use less than 400 Watts it will shut down. The engine must be running. Hybrid cars can not provide enough energy to the DC to AC inverter.
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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.