Car Power Inverter

[PDoz]

Pdoz - just buy PSW inverter for your shed. 300W Samlex costs $160 and will run any electronics. I would also get 12V lights, to avoid keeping inverter on stand-by 24 hours. It drains quite a lot of energy on standby, without any loads.

Yes, it had crossed my mind that it would be cheaper to buy a small sw inverter for the ebike than replacing the battery / charger on the bike if I found my modified sw fried them!

 

[bob armani]

Costco had those recently for $500. I've got a Honda e2000 that produces the same power, but it cost double that!

As for solar, I have a 100W panel and controller (also from Costco). It's going on top of my 6 x 12 box trailer, which is set up to haul and work on two wheeled vehicles. Will look for a better inverter than the 15 year old piece in there now.

Yeah I saw that at Costco also. Does this other one: 'Firman 1050W Running / 1300W Peak Gas Generator Item: 1175805' @ $150.00 not have enough power to charge an E-bike battery then (36v 11.8 AH)??

 

[Alex M]

For offgrid camping 100W solar is kind of a minimalist's setup. It will harvest enough energy to run a couple of lights, but charging ebike battery could be difficult on some days. Solar panels are cheap now, 6x12 cargo trailer probably has enough roof for 400-600W array.

Open-frame generators can be loud. Honda 2000 is advertised as "quiet", on a calm evening you can still hear it for several hundred yards out in the open. Offbrand cheap generators are, er... let's say, not quieter than Honda. Quality is not comparable to Honda, either. Support poor to non-existent. Wattage is usually overrated, but 200W ebike charger it should run.

 

[JamesJackson]

I use a 1000w Yamaha generator to charge my ebikes while remote camping all the time. It is light, quiet, and very efficient. I can easily charge 2- 500v batteries with the 4amp chargers. Do it all the time. The Yamaha is a pure sine wave generator so it is cleaner power than what usually comes out of the public utility.

Can be purchased on Amazon for around $700, and good for many other uses as well.

This is a cool idea, I was looking for a similar generator, but everything that I found was large and not convenient. Your option seems optimal to me. Thank you for talking about him. It is interesting to test it, I love long trips, but my charge is not enough, and I can’t pedal for a long time because of my illness.

 

[FlatSix911]

I have a 750w inverter connected directly to my 12V battery which is recharged by the main 400V traction battery in my Tesla... problem solved.