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Inverters?

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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  • Hi all, crikey!


    WOW! Love the posts'! 


    Now, how to get shot down by everyone. It was great, reading your replies. Very good suggestions too. Maybe get my friend to buy a generator / definitely forward, the above, to him... I, naively, thought that you could, maybe, get a transformer, (this must show you my ignorance on this matter), that would feed some type of inverter and do away with the need for multiple batteries BUT, as I can see there would be far more into this than trying to do away with batteries..


    I do know that the supply, to the area, of his narrow boat, is very poor and all of the others are in the same, (sorry for the 'pun', haha), boat!


    Many thanks for all the great replies, once again... just goes to show you what an amazing site this is!


    regards... Tom


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  • Hi all, crikey!


    WOW! Love the posts'! 


    Now, how to get shot down by everyone. It was great, reading your replies. Very good suggestions too. Maybe get my friend to buy a generator / definitely forward, the above, to him... I, naively, thought that you could, maybe, get a transformer, (this must show you my ignorance on this matter), that would feed some type of inverter and do away with the need for multiple batteries BUT, as I can see there would be far more into this than trying to do away with batteries..


    I do know that the supply, to the area, of his narrow boat, is very poor and all of the others are in the same, (sorry for the 'pun', haha), boat!


    Many thanks for all the great replies, once again... just goes to show you what an amazing site this is!


    regards... Tom


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