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Old 04-03-2006, 08:49 AM
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On inverter stories and microwave ovens Pizza etc; a decent inverter with a 1200 watt rating will comfortably run a small microwave oven, and as the time in use is usually very short power consumption isn't bad. You can also run a bread making machine to bake bread, however from memory just mixing the dough for 1 loaf of bread bread uses around 30 amp hours. You can also pump water with a 6-700 watt Davey pump, around 7-10AH for 100 gallons (450Litres to the metric hoards). Don't expect an inverter to run a 240V fridge or any other compressor device as these loads have very high startup currents and although the current draw of a 240V fridge is fairly low over 24 hours they consume quite an amount of power (That's if you can get them running on the inverter in the first place).
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