Inverters

[dewayne]

This doesn't pertain to a reardrop, but does have a camper. Last year my brother bought an old 16 pass school bus he wanted me to make a camper out of for him for hunting and fishing. So I did with a full bed, a full size gas stove, cabinets, table etc. Has 12vdc and 110ac. He uses my generator for shore power. The stove has electromic igniters.
My question is, does anyone know how big of an inverter it would take to operate the igniter for the oven. I tried a 400 I had and it worked for the burners but not the oven?
Any help would be appreciated.

dewayne

[Miriam C.]

Dewayne,
Did you check the igniter for the oven. 400 will run my TV and charge my cell phone. An The oven shouldn't pull any more than the stove top. It just makes a spark.

[dewayne]

Miriam, Thanks for the reply. The oven has a glow plug looking deal that stays red hot while oven is on. This 400 inverter won,t get it hot enough to lite oven

dewayne

[Miriam C.]

Miriam, Thanks for the reply. The oven has a glow plug looking deal that stays red hot while oven is on. This 400 inverter won,t get it hot enough to lite oven

dewayne

Oh boy. Pure resistance!!! My hair dryer is 1800 watts and the coffee pot is 1275. I would be willing to bet your glow plug is somewhere in between. If you get a 2000 watt inverter you should be covered. but Maybe someone else has one like it.

BTW if he is using a generator why does he need an inverter? Running this off a battery isn't going to work for very long if at all.

Truckers use bigger inverters but they have a diesel power plant.

School bus is diesel right...

[Q]

Most of the household ranges that have the glowbar type ignition use 600 watts. 600 watts is a lot to be pulling from the batteries whenever you want to bake anything. The old pilot light type is much better for mobile use. Most of the surface elements use a simple spark ignition that require just a few watts.

Q

[brian_bp]

...School bus is diesel right...

Not likely. A 16-passenger school bus is likely built on a van-style cab-and-chassis, with a gasoline V8. It's probably more like a cube van or common Class C motorhome than the traditional big yellow school bus. Am I right, dewayne?

But I agree with the main point - hundreds of watts is too much to ask of a reasonable small RV battery.

[dewayne]

Yes it is a ford 350 with a gas v8 engine 460 ( 9 mile to the gallon ). Besides its regular starting battery which looks big, it came with bus. I put 2 everstart maxx grp 29 batteries 125 amphrs. wired in parale

dewayne