What do you run with your 400w inverter

Just done the 400 watt anytime mod and wonder what is the more surprising thing you run on it ?

Planning to try a 10 square foot freezer this weekend

 

I ran an angle grinder on mine. Had to cut off a stuck hitch pin and it was all I had available. I was surprised it didn’t trip or blow anything. It ran slow with very little power but I eventually cut through it.

 

Nothing in the least 10 years.
I used it once, and it wouldn’t run a circular saw.
(I don’t know any better)

I always forget about it being back there.

 

Same, lol!

most use I get from it is to inflate/deflate dinghy, other water craft and air mattresses. Followed by charging batteries and that’s probably what it was intended for.

mused it for Christmas lights once and also to power a bed mounted T-Rex once. Oh,and a margarita machine

 

I think in the nearly 10 yrs I have owned my taco, I have used it less than 5x, one being recently in the cab (I put a 120v power outlet in the center console) on a trip to run a laptop powersupply to charge an RC car battery. The other times its been used is been out and about for others (air pumps for air mattresses etc) because all my stuff runs off 12v. Hell come to think of it I should of just plugged my rc car charger into the cig lighter for 12v in the cab haha.

 

Lights, phone.

 

Battery charger. Air mattress. Crockpot. Soldering iron. Projector.

 

Crockpot. A TV I sold over craigslist and had to prove to the buyer that it worked. Christmas lights. That's about it.

 

Skate sharpener, chargers, work light.

 

Haha, I mostly use it for my little hotdog compressor, it’s come in handy a few times and is faster than most inflators.

I have used it for Xmas lights as well lol. Most often I use it to plug in a clip-on flood light when I need to load something up in the dark.

 

Batteries and Christmas lights when I had my old truck...

 

I've tried mine a handful of times.
Once to run a vacuum... Fail.
Once to run an angle grinder... Fail

It seems to me this accessory is best suited to low power usage.

 

I was using mine to power a small water pump with hose to wash down my kayaks and fishing gear. It'd be fun to watch people's reaction on where I was getting flowing water where there wasn't any spigots.
That and a little bait aerator to keep my bait alive. I used this 17 years ago with my 05 Tacoma.

 

Also camera batteries (Canon DSLR) Multi-outlet USB plug

 

I've used it twice in almost ten years - once to charge a drill battery and once to charge a beard trimmer. I'm probably going to delete it and use the run to feed a charge controller for a LiPo when I redo my shell.

 

I put an outlet in the cab. I hook it up to a battery pack that is running a portable fridge. Driving recharges the battery pack. I also have a solar panel mounted but it doesn't put out enough to keep the battery pack charged.

 

Coffee grinder. Do you have a link to the anytime mod?

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/how-to-ac-outlet-in-cab-400-watt-anytime-mod-2nd-gen.322320/

https://youtu.be/1ovdjEsicjQ

 

Small air compressor to pressurize my solar water tanks

Small vacuum, battery chargers, LED lights, small fan while camping, but lately and most importantly an electric kettle that draws 300 watts and boils water in about 5 minutes. This coupled with a Stanley French Press or my Wacaco Pipamoka and I get a great cup of coffee in under 10 minutes.

 

It'll run a Hitachi Magic Wand.