How To Connect Inverter To Car Battery

Put on safety glasses.

How to connect inverter to car battery. Its a must to have the inverter install sitting in a flat finish. The more batteries you connect to your invertercharger the longer you can keep your sump pump running. Make sure that the inverters onoff switch is set to off. Install the other end of the battery cable to the positive battery post on the second battery.

Route your wire from the inverters location and into your engine bay. And also make sure that the other end of the clips is connected to the positive and negative ends of the car battery. This requires a 4 gauge power cable and draws power directly from the positive battery terminal. If you opt to go straight to the battery youll have to find where the wiring harness passes through the firewall and fish your own power wire through.

For powering loads of over 150 watts you should connect the inverter directly to your car battery. The inverter will convert the dc current from the batteries to 110 volt ac current for use in the house. It is held in place by some 3m 5lb foam tape. To connect the inverter to the batteries attach the positive red inverter electrical clamp connection to the positive terminal on the first battery.

Connect the battery bank to the input lugs of the inverter and then connect the inverter to the house panel. Adding a power inverter to a car truck or rv opens up a whole world of possibilities in terms of the types of electronics you can use on the road but nothing in life is free. This part may be a little tricky but do your best to do a clean job. Connect the battery clip cables to the positive and negative inverter terminals.

One way to permanently wire a car inverter is to either tap into power wire or go straight to the battery. Then connect your red wire into the red terminal and your black wire to the black terminal. All that power has to come from somewhere and if it happens to come from the starting battery that world of possibilities can collapse into a world of hurt with almost no warning. Open the engine compartment hood.

Procedure to temporarily connect inverter to battery battery clips 3. This is a good way to go if you are only going to use the inverter occasionally and wont be using large equipment. First wipe off the surface to be taped with an alcohol pad. If the house panel is connected to the power grid the inverter can be programmed to sell excess power back to the power company.

On this part you need to connect the battery clip wires to the positive and negative inverter ends. This is one of the advantages of the modular nature of an invertercharger versus a ups system because you get to decide how big the system needs to be and how much money you want to spend.