Pure Sine Wave Inverters

[buxton]

Anyone care to recommend a brand of Pure Sine Wave inverter? There seems to be such a spread of price-points, brands. Just want to connect to my 80ah Thumper pack to occasionally fire up the laptop, camera charger etc while on extended trips in the 110. Don't mind paying whatever is necessary but don't want to be silly. Thanks!

[Iain_B]

I had an 8zed 1500w pure sine inverter in the back of my Defender. It had daily use for three months powering our 1000W Nespresso machine on a trip around Australia, it worked great right up until the smoke escaped from it in Laverton. I got a report from the suppliers - Wallcann, on the 8zed 1500W, (which they replaced with a 2000W version under warranty) one of the power transistors was faulty, they traced it to a bad batch of components. The Nespresso draws 95A when running, but only runs for 20-30 seconds at a time.

In Cooper Pedy, I got a replacement 2200W inverter, "no name Chinese brand, it has a hard time with the Nespresso machine, and would only work with the engine running. It certainly is nowhere near the 8Zed in performance and quality. I put the new 8Zed back in the Defender.

In my Unimog I have a 1500 Latronic unit, it is very heavy duty, I got the ruggedised version and that has been working fine for over three years now (occasional use) , with daily use for the last few months powering a Nespresso machine in the truck. If you are interested in quality, go with the Latronics unit, it is build for years of use. I will put the 8Zed unit in the truck when it is one the road, more of a back-up then anything else and for smaller loads like laptops and my quadcopter battery chargers etc

[p38arover]

Not Defender specific, moved to Electronics.

[drivesafe]

Hi buxton, you can pretty well use any 300w inverter and it will run your laptop, or charge phone and camera batteries.

One point though, you do not need a pure sine wave inverter, all the above gear will happily run off a modified type inverter.

[87County]

Or a DC step up adapter from Jaycar, about $70 with multiple laptop adapters and voltages, ours has had accurate voltage and has been trouble free since we bought it a few years ago.