Product Description

What is a car power inverter?

Most standard appliances are designed to accept only AC (alternating current) voltages because that's how electricity is supplied from the grid. To run an electronic device from a DC (direct current) voltage source you need to transform DC into AC.

Apower inverteris a device that converts electrical energy from DC form to AC form using electronic circuits. Its typical application is to convert a *2V battery voltage into conventional household voltage. Inverters are used in a wide variety of applications from small car adapters to large grid-tie systems that can supply AC power to an entire house.

Essentially, there are two forms of electrical power in the Universe: Direct Current (DC) and Alternating Current (AC). Direct current flows continuously from the positive electrical pole to the negative electrical pole. Alternating current flows back and forth between the two poles. DC current occurs in Nature and batteries, while AC current is man-made and supplies power through the public utility grid that supports human industry and infrastructure. Car batteries presented a problem in the past when people realized they needed to operate traditionally AC-powered devices in their cars but could not do so because of incompatible current requirements. Manufacturers like Vector stepped up to solve this dilemma by working to design car power inverters that would safely and efficiently convert DC to AC. Their successful engineering has resulted in a wide range of compact, rectangular devices that connect to batteries and output the resulting alternating current safely through one or more standard electrical plugs.