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Inverters are tiny and cost almost nothing. Here's one for under $50 that will do what you want: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Car-Power-Inverter-12V-to-240V-AC
by TheSpiceIsLife 5y ago
Inverters are tiny and cost almost nothing.
Here's one for under $50 that will do what you want:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Car-Power-Inverter-12V-to-240V-AC-Converter-200W-With-4USB-Phone-Charger-AU-/193941414985 https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Car-Power-Inverter-12V-to-240V-A...
- rootusrootus 5y agoA grid-tie inverter will be quite a lot more expensive.
- explorigin 5y ago200W isn't a lot of power. Most microwaves are 1KW. You'll need an inverter that can do that at least to run a fridge constantly and a microwave periodically.
- _carbyau_ 5y agoInverter is not a battery so it is translating the useful work from the human directly. I am imagining a 1kW sprint run by Uni students for microwaved ramen noodles!
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoI swear the comment I replied to said: "would personally prefer having an exercise bike plugged into the TV..." When I replied to it. However, I have no proof and am often wrong.
- samatman 5y agoGenerating a dirty sine wave which will power an appliance is fine, but that's not the goal here. The goal is to generate a clean sine wave which will benefit the grid when applied to it. This is probably impossible at bike workloads, and is in any case quite a bit more of a problem than just throwing an inverter at a DC source and calling it done.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoI certain the comment I replied to said something differ when I replied to it, see my reply to your sibling comment.