Re: power station vs. receptacle to power accessories
You can't be serious!!!!! A jumpstart pack typically has a 7 - 10 AHr battery. That number means it can deliver 1 amp for 7 - 10 hours or 7 - 10 amps for one hour. Look at the power consumption label on any 120 volt AC powered device you wish to plug into an inverter to find the power consumption. It may be shown as watts rather than amps so lets do some conversion. A 120 VOLT skillet that draws 840 WATTS (as an example) draws 7 AMPS (840/12 = 7). Now then, an inverter requires 12 volts INPUT to create 120 volts OUTPUT. Did you notice the difference is a factor of 10???? That 7 amp load for the skillet now requires 70 AMPS from the batttery, and since inverters are not 100% efficient, it would actuallly require more than 70 amps. So your little 7 amp battery would be stone dead before the skillet became warm enough to fry an egg. Even if you powered the inverter from a trolling motor battery, it would not last long either. Heating appliances simply cannot be realistically operated from battery power unless you have a lot of them and that they are huge. Electrical specs are put on appliances for a reason. Unfortunately the public doesn't understand them so money is made off peoples ignorance (excuse me -- lack of knowledge).
