All about Inverters! An inverter is a box full of electronic
goodies that will convert your battery voltage into mains type
power. Once upon a time if you wanted to get "mains" type power
from your battery bank you used a device called a rotary
inverter. This was simply a battery powered motor spinning
generator with an output similar to mains power. As you can
probably imagine efficiency was somewhat lacking ... The modern
inverter is so efficient and reliable that using appliances
powered directly from the battery, as was the norm in the past,
is now all but history excepting motor homes, caravans and camp
sites. The modern concept in solar design for anything other
than a small camper van, 4WD or campsite is to power everything
from "mains" type voltages "inverted" from the battery bank. The
advantage this gives us is that we can go shopping in a local
electrical store and buy conventional appliances just like the
common folk on grid fed power. Take the humble light globe for
an example: A 12 volt device t