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- From: steve@bcrvmpc2.vnet.ibm.com
- Subject: Re: inverter and battery use
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.145700.10054@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:57:00 GMT
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- In <mshulman.18.725765468@genghis.borland.com>
- mshulman@genghis.borland.com (Michael Shulman) writes: >Hello, all: >
- Stuff deleted.....
- >from his batteries. I told him that since P = I *E
- > where P is power in watts > and I is current in amps
- > and E is voltage,
- > >that his running his 600W microwave for 1 hr at 110V (whichtakes approx 6A/
- >H, right), that if we estimate the efficiency of his inverter at 50% (pretty
- >conservative), that he should be able to run his microwave for 37 hours,
- >even using only half the charge of his batteries:
- >
- > microwave takes: 6A/H
- > inverter 50% efficiency: 12A/H
- > battery (50% of total): 450A/H
- > so, you can get 37 hours.
- >
- >But then I thought, that can't be right. Intuitively, it seems like it
- >should be closer to 3 or 4 hours.
- >
- >What am I doing wrong in my calculations?
- >
- >And what items are going to be really expensive to run off the inverter?
- >
- >Thanks!
- >
- >-ms
- >mshulman@borland.com
-
- Your intuition is right. You just forgot to multiply the amps by the
- voltage ratio to keep the power constant. For your example: A 600w
- microwave will probably draw about 1000 w which, is about 8.3 amps at
- 120 v. The inverter converts 12v to 120v, and the voltage*current
- (power) must be the same on both sides of the equation (minus losses),
- so 8.3 amps at 120v becomes 83 amps at 12v, at about 90% efficiency for
- the inverter (you should check this, as it varies wildly with
- manufacturer) that is about 92.6 amps. total. That will give about 4.8
- hours for your 450 Ah.
-
-
- Happy New Year, fair winds, good sailing.
-
-
- Steve Steve Weingart IBM Boca Raton
- steve@bcrvmpc2.vnet.ibm.com
-
- It's bad enough that I think these things, please don't think it's
- my employer's opinion too.
-