On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:12:57 -0000, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

|Hi All
|
|Thinking of getting a 12/230 inverter for my new van. I know nothing about
|them however.
|
|All I really want to run from it is a 150w halogen floodlight.
|
|Am I right to assume a 150w inverter will run a 150w lamp or is there some
|sort of power factor involved? Or maybe the 150w claimed for the inverter
|is 'going downhill with a following wind' and not what you get in practice?

Why not get a 150W *12V* lamp?
150W (12.5 amps) out of a 110AH leisure battery will cripple it in about 5
hours flat. Beware invertors do not like high peak starting loads such as
you find for incandescent lamps.
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