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Tomgunn
Happy Easter to all! ?


My friend's escaped Ewell, due to where we are today, and staying on his narrow boat he's owned for decades and is spending most of his time, apart from the beer, doing lot's of repairs.


Now, what's missing from his ship is... a washing machine. The thing is, the power supply, to that area of narrow boat ships', is somewhat low so, I suggested about an 'inverter'. He said that some of those ships have installed 'inverters' BUT, they have to have lot's of heavy duty batteries.


Can an inverter be run off of the mains'?  I guess that that may be a stupid question as the inverters' that I have run off of my car battery supplying 240v so, I KNOW how amazing you lot are and the wealth, (grovel, grovel), of information is unrivaled! 


So... he want's a 3K washing machine... can an inverter be worked, without lot's of batteries, to run this?


Thanks...


regards too, Tom


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    Chris Pearson:




    Sparkingchip:
    Miele dishwasher




    Great! So we ignore the consumption of the immersion heater which got the water up to 65 deg C in the first place. ?


     




     

    If the stored hot water is heated by either solar hot water or PV panels on the roof it’s a no-brainer, if the water is heated by gas, a heat source pump or any other type water heating that’s not an immersion heater running on a peak tariff it’s still worth consideration.


    On a boat it’s shifting the electrical load of heating the water onto a gas bottle dramatically reducing the size of batteries and inverter required to run washing machines and dishwashers as well as the size of the inverter.


    Resistive heaters kill storage batteries.


    Andy Betteridge
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    Chris Pearson:




    Sparkingchip:
    Miele dishwasher




    Great! So we ignore the consumption of the immersion heater which got the water up to 65 deg C in the first place. ?


     




     

    If the stored hot water is heated by either solar hot water or PV panels on the roof it’s a no-brainer, if the water is heated by gas, a heat source pump or any other type water heating that’s not an immersion heater running on a peak tariff it’s still worth consideration.


    On a boat it’s shifting the electrical load of heating the water onto a gas bottle dramatically reducing the size of batteries and inverter required to run washing machines and dishwashers as well as the size of the inverter.


    Resistive heaters kill storage batteries.


    Andy Betteridge
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