It's Friday afternoon about three o'clock. The sun is beating down on you as you finish packing your car. It's vacation day and your kids aren't letting you forget that; the constant question asking and "Daddy hurry up!"'s are hindering you from completing your goal: getting your portable DVD player to work.
That's a scenario I'm sure a lot of families have. Maybe you can relate too. Portable electronics such as DVD players, laptops, and small TV's are all great on road trips but they all share one fatal requirement: power. That sounds like an easy problem right? Wrong. Most portable electronics come with your standard wall plug-in, which is something that just about every vehicle doesn't have. So now you need a power inverter - something that not very many people have just lying around.
It's probably time to get one.
Power inverters are great inventions that are life savers if you need to plug something in on the road. Power inverters are also fun to say. Power inverters. See, doesn't that sound all technical? Anyway, there are different sizes of power inverters so it's a good idea to pick one that has the necessary capacity to power what you'll be using. I personally have a 2000 peak-watt power inverter that I have hard wired into my truck's battery, which frees up another power point to use on something like a GPS.
Since we're assuming your vehicle doesn't have stock DVD players or plug ins (the latter more rare than the former) we're going to continue to assume that you've bought an inverter. Great, now the main thing you have to watch for is not maxing out the machine. Some inverters have displays that show you the amount of power that is being used by your devices plugged into it. That's really handy since you'll be able to prevent that annoying, high-pitched buzzer that will sound if you've overloaded it. If yours doesn't have a display, that's ok, just don't get too alarmed if you hear that noise.
Now you've heard some scenarios and things to do with a power inverter. What's the next step? Go buy one and take a road trip!
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