What Type of Power Inverter is Right For You?

Choosing a power inverter that correctly fits your needs can be quite a challenge. After all, the product itself is confusing and since they can be quite expensive, choosing the wrong type can be a costly mistake. The first thing to do is to get a solid idea of what you want to use the power inverter for. If you just want it to run some simple electronics while driving your car, then you can probably just get a cheap one that plugs into your cigarette lighter. Obviously there is no need for a true sine wave inverter if you are only running simple electronics.

The process gets more difficult when you plan to run electronics directly from your car battery. You have to choose a product that can withstand the current that your battery can give you. In addition you will want to use the lowest wattage power inverter that you can so that you don't drain your battery any faster than you have to. Check how many watts the electronics you plan to use need to run, add a small percentage extra, and start looking for inverters in that wattage range.

It seems that a lot of people intend to run televisions from their car or boat batteries. This can be great fun for camping and boating in places where you wouldn't typically find television (and video games). However, it may not be much fun if you drain your car battery and can't leave the campsite. Make sure you periodically run your car's engine to recharge the battery. This is especially important if you are running a strong power inverter that is capable of over 500 watts as they can drain a battery especially fast.

Brad Allmendinger is an entrepreneur and an electronics wiz. For more information regarding power inverters and how to choose one, go to this power inverter website.

How a Simple Pallet Inverter Crossed the Sea

The Pallet inverter is different, because where by the end of the 50's most useful bits of large mechanical devices were already coming to the conclusion of their evolution and were now simply being refined, the pallet inverter was hardly on the horizon.

In fact the load turner, which had been no more than a machine that flipped over agriculture bags, was not seen in the warehouse and distribution environment for many years.

The first recognizable free-standing pallet inverter was developed in Norfolk in around 1976 built using the hydraulics salvaged from a dustcart! The concept proved very popular with ICI Fertilizers who bought at least 60 rotators for their distribution stores and factories throughout the country. The use of the machines cut their pallet losses enormously and helped to contain spillages in the warehouse.

But what is a pallet inverter and how did it cross the sea. Well it is a machine used when a pallet that has goods stacked on it needs to be removed without the goods themselves having to be unstacked and re-stacked. The idea is quite simple. A fork lift of hand truck is used to load the broken or unwanted pallet with it's load still intact into the inverter. A new pallet is then placed on top of the stack of goods and the whole lot is clamped and turned 180 degrees. This means the new pallet is now holding the weight of the stack and the old one can be removed and disposed of or used elsewhere.

It's true that pallet inverters of a type good be found in the United State but those from Norfolk were soon to cross the sea and capture the market. Premier Pallet Systems were one of the early companies to build on the need for a quality pallet inverter that didn't need replacing often. So they packed up their first machine with the love and care of sending off a loved one and so was born an international trade that has seen many hundreds of pallet inverters cross all seas to every continent and most countries in the world.

The truth is that as the developing world starts to flex its manufacturing muscle pallet inverters can be seen in countries as far from Norfolk England as Malaysia, India and Australia.

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Frank L Garsome has been writing about industrial machinery for many years. He as a particular interest in pallet inverters. He writes for the UK blog Pallet Inverters