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Battery Direct’s Jay Wallace Discusses Power Inverters in L&MT Magazine

By Rob Fernandez, L&MT Magazine

One of the less obvious effects of rising gasoline prices is on the cost of remote power generation for field crews. Gasoline-powered electric generators have been a popular solution in the past, but the fuel crunch has many fleets considering a competing technology. The benefits of lower fuel use, lower emissions and no noise has made power inverters a growth area as fleet manager’s search for smarter and more efficient mobile power sources.

For fleet purposes, power inverters represent any technology that draws on the DC electrical current of a vehicle’s battery and converts it to AC current to operate electronics and other equipment. Anyone who has ever recharged his or her phone or laptop by plugging it into the cigarette lighter of a car or truck has used this technology.

But power inverters can be taken further to operate even more power-hungry equipment such as power tools, lighting, refrigeration units and even electrofusion welding equipment. As the power demand (measured in watts) increases, the solution requires more complex equipment... Read the entire article at LIGHT & MEDIUM TRUCK MAGAZINE by clicking here.