I have read everything possible but not sure I completely understand.
This inverter seems very reasonable to me at $245 and the company is Australian. Maybe too cheap?
1000W Pure Sine Wave Inverter 12V VP
Quick Overview
This 8ZED 1000 Watt Pure Sine Wave Power Inverter (2000W Peak) provides power for electronic games, LapTop PC, a variety of small power tools and household appliances from your car, four wheel drive (4WD), truck, caravan and boat battery.
My connection will be at times via 240v but other times via 12v solar charged battery which is 100.
I would like to run my Apple MacPro laptop and my juicer, my juicer is 230v and I need to run it for about 10 minutes per day.
I look forward to your advice.
Thank you.
hako said
01:29 PM Apr 22, 2015
Should be OK for the juicer which is probably under 300 watts and the laptop will be running on the internal battery which will be plugged into the inverter. I read the instructions and they seem comprehensive unlike the cheap 2000watt inverter I bought for a similar price. I've attached the pdf link below if you haven't read it already.
The company has no bad marks that I can find so if you have problems hopefully they will cover it.
EDIT...forgot to mention that mine blew up after a week and it took many emails to eventually get a replacement motherboard from China despite the seller being a big Aussie based company. I only add this as what can happen but should not.
-- Edited by hako on Wednesday 22nd of April 2015 01:31:26 PM
Nomes said
01:59 PM Apr 22, 2015
Thanks for taking the time Denis.
banjo said
03:39 PM Apr 23, 2015
Although large inverters seem attractive, they need large cabling, large battery banks, and they have large standby current (just being switched on uses power) and the cheaper variety are quite inefficient.
Would be a better idea to find out the exact loading of your juicer in Watts and size a quality inverter to that. Most better quality units have lower standby current and are more efficient.
I have a Morningstar Suresine 300W unit that has a surge rating of 600W and has no cooling fans and above all requires low standby and smaller wiring. It can be remotely switched or auto load sensed switching.
There are other good quality units out there such as Victron or Stirling.
Nomes said
08:48 AM Apr 24, 2015
You were right Brian.
I contacted the supplier and he asked me questions as to what I needed to do and said the 1000w was not what I needed and I bought the 300w.
He also said if I was not confident about connecting it then just wait til I get to a camp area and ask one of the nice campers to help out.
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
-- Edited by Nomes on Friday 24th of April 2015 08:48:47 AM
I have read everything possible but not sure I completely understand.
This inverter seems very reasonable to me at $245 and the company is Australian. Maybe too cheap?
1000W Pure Sine Wave Inverter 12V VP
Quick Overview
8ZED-1000S-12V-VP
http://www.wallcann.com.au/1000w-pure-sine-wave-inverter-12v-vp.html?___store=default
My connection will be at times via 240v but other times via 12v solar charged battery which is 100.
I would like to run my Apple MacPro laptop and my juicer, my juicer is 230v and I need to run it for about 10 minutes per day.
I look forward to your advice.
Thank you.
Should be OK for the juicer which is probably under 300 watts and the laptop will be running on the internal battery which will be plugged into the inverter. I read the instructions and they seem comprehensive unlike the cheap 2000watt inverter I bought for a similar price. I've attached the pdf link below if you haven't read it already.
The company has no bad marks that I can find so if you have problems hopefully they will cover it.
Good Luck.
http://www.wallcanncdn.com/invertermanual/8zedmanual.pdf
EDIT...forgot to mention that mine blew up after a week and it took many emails to eventually get a replacement motherboard from China despite the seller being a big Aussie based company. I only add this as what can happen but should not.
-- Edited by hako on Wednesday 22nd of April 2015 01:31:26 PM
Would be a better idea to find out the exact loading of your juicer in Watts and size a quality inverter to that. Most better quality units have lower standby current and are more efficient.
I have a Morningstar Suresine 300W unit that has a surge rating of 600W and has no cooling fans and above all requires low standby and smaller wiring. It can be remotely switched or auto load sensed switching.
There are other good quality units out there such as Victron or Stirling.
You were right Brian.
I contacted the supplier and he asked me questions as to what I needed to do and said the 1000w was not what I needed and I bought the 300w.
He also said if I was not confident about connecting it then just wait til I get to a camp area and ask one of the nice campers to help out.
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
-- Edited by Nomes on Friday 24th of April 2015 08:48:47 AM