Top 3 Reasons to Use an Inverter/Charger

Let’s pretend for a moment that you are out on the water in your boat that you love so much. While you are enjoying yourself, you realize that you forgot to finish some work on your laptop. However, you need power for your laptop, which requires AC power and all your boat has is DC power. This is the perfect time for an inverter/charger to save the day.

If you don’t know what an inverter is right now, you will know in just a few moments. An inverter is a device that takes DC power and turns it into AC power. DC current is the kind produced by batteries, like the one in your boat. AC current is the kind of power you find in your wall socket at home. Now that you know what an inverter is, let me tell you some good reasons why you should use an inverter/charger.

First of all, if you were to run your laptop, your small refrigerator, or other AC current devices off of direct DC current you could fry them! They were made to run on an AC current, so give them what they need to run. Besides, you can’t just take a plug-in and put it in a battery. You would have to specially wire it, and that could be dangerous. But if you have an inverter, then you just plug into the inverter.

Another reason to use an inverter/charger is that it doesn’t just serve as an inverter. Just like the name suggests, it works as a charger as well. Usually, people pull juice from a spare battery when they use an inverter. However, if you want the batteries you’ve been using recharged, you need a charger. There are devices that are strictly made for charging batteries, but an inverter/charger has all the bases covered. You get two electrical devices in one.

The third reason you should get an inverter/charger, is that it will give you power when the shore power fails you. Let’s go back to the laptop that you have to get some work done on–if you are at the docks and you have a shore line to give you power, you’re saving your batteries, in fact, you’re charging them up. But if for some reason the shore power goes out, the inverter/charger will kick in and keep your computer going. Your computer won’t die suddenly and you won’t lose the paper you’ve been working.

No matter what your AC power needs are, an inverter/charger will get you the power you need. And when you need to charge a battery, even your boat’s battery, you will already have everything you need. This makes for a more enjoyable and stress free time in your boat so that you can enjoy the water that much more.