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Hi All

Advice Please, had the motorhome 21/2 years and still enjoying every second,

Fitted an 80 watt solar and two 110 amp batterys in December to go to spain for 7 weeks over christmas,new year and havent hooked up since ,our weekends away i find myself bringing home more electric than we have taken away which is great.

We Have an 800watt electric kettle and 800 watt toaster tvs 12 volt and sat receiver is 12volt laptop and phone i charge though 12 volt sockets ,

What size inverter would i need to run the kettle and toaster.since we have all this electric left over might as well save on the gas??

Thanks Mike

I looked into this,and found the cheap ones don`t deliver,and was anvised to go for this one,they are not the cheapest,but I can run a kettle,microwave,or a toaster on it,it also has it`s own built in cooling fan.

http://www.sinergex.com/products/puresine_1500.html

Quote: while it`s inveting to 240 volt, it also puts a trickle charge back to the batteries.

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Quote: Originally posted by -mojo- on 05/8/2012

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Quote: while it`s inveting to 240 volt, it also puts a trickle charge back to the batteries.

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Does this mean that you are using the battery, through the inverter and built-in charger, to trickle charge itself???

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Thanks for the top 3 replys (seems to have gone a little off track)

But £300 seems a little expensive to boil a kettle and make a couple of slices of toast.

Might leave it for now.

mike

Slightly more than £300.

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/displayProduct.jsp?sku=PW01011&CMP=e-2072-00001000

So my morning brew and toast cost me at the moment say a bottle of gas over 12 months = £20, A £650 inverter should pay for itself in 40 years,

Does anybody own or tried one of the cheap ones of feabay

mike

On EHU per week costs arround £35 on site,20 weeks away per year = £700 X 5 years of useage,= £3500, so 140 watt solar panel £190 + inverter £650 = £840.

£3500 - £840 = £2660 Saving on the long term.

Allmost paid for itself in one year.