We bought an expensive Pure Sine-wave inverter, capable of 1500W continuous. Spent an absolute fortune. It's blown twice - now it's just an extra bit (lot) of ballast. (Synergex PureSine 1500).
We have reverted to a cheap 800W (continuous), Modified Sine-wave unit, badged by Coleman, which does pretty much everything we need. (Incidentally, it does our power drill and angle grinder just fine. On that topic, both tools pull around 500-800W, which equates to about 50-80 amps. Even without the engine running, we can run the tools for several hours on a typical duty cycle.)
I'd go for a cheap inverter in the first place next time, and just check that it works with the particular applicances you want to use.
Regards,
Michael...
www.expeditionoverland.com
[This message has been edited by SandyM (edited 15 March 2005).]
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