I tried to get a inverter hook to my car battery and power a 500 watt heater. The heater can do 1000 Watts but on low it does 500 watts that’s what I measured it at. So I got a 1500 watt inverter from Walmart because they’re close by and I could get it that day. So I got a everstart Max 1500. I could not get it to work very well if I just hooking it to my car. And that’s a Toyota 4Runner and it I only needed it to run 500 watts and I could not get it to work. The the safety system would shut it down because it it would think the car’s not giving it enough power or the car would be giving it too much power. So then I tried it on my other car but Toyota tundra. The tundra has a 700 CCA battery and has a bigger alternator.
Troubleshooting. Remember inverters need big batteries to feed them high AMPERAGE dc voltage. Also remember batteries convert chemical energy into electricity. They are not magic. A good charge allows those electrons to get stored up and pushed out. If things are not working, let the battery charge for a bit longer. Wait 20 minutes for the batteries to charge up, then try the inverter again.
And the ever start still had some problems giving that power directly off the car. Again I only wanted 500 watts and in the pictures I’ll show you the picture of the heater and inverters 1500 watts and most cars will put out about a thousand Watts out of their alternator so this should have worked but it just didn’t because the units too sensitive is what I found it can put out that power but it has to it doesn’t wait for the alternator to spin up and get that power for it as soon as it sees it doesn’t have enough power it shuts down.
Now one way that I to get to get this fixed is you put another battery in between your car battery and this unit so then you’re basically running off two batteries in an alternator is reach alternator is recharging both of them. I was able to get a thousand Watts out once but most times it shuts down the alternator. Lame, why not reset after 30 seconds? I haven’t tried 1500 but I was able to get a 500 Watts out of this unit reliable power using the two batteries in parallel.
At 500 watts with parallel batteries the everstart still complains and beeps about low voltage. Frustrating! For me this works okay I just wanted the heater for a tent for tent camping it in the in the in the cold and I think it’s going to work fine. And in a pinch I that’s really all I needed. I am going to take this unit back because I want something that where I could be able to get a thousand or 1500 watts reliably with two batteries in parallel and I can’t do that with this that’s really sucks. That should work but it doesn’t. Oh well. should be able to get a thousand or 1500 watts out of it to do my bigger power tools, nope. so that’s a lame score. But anyway here’s a couple pictures and a drawing of what I had to do okay thanks
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