Bouncy castle fan and a car inverter

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We operate a finish line gantry for our running timing business, its currently run off a noisy lpg generator. It is rated at 750 watts. Is it possible to run it off a hard wired car inverter, we need to run up to 3 hours. This would be so much quieter. A decent one is about £150 by the look of it.

I suspect the fan has a high loading until the gantry is inflated, I tried it on a cheap ebay chinese 1500 watt one but it just turned the fan once and the red led came on.

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Phunk said:

You'd need a pretty meaty Inverter to run 750w, probably £300-400. You'd also need to keep the engine running.

There is also a bit of a grey area as you start to run into having to comply with BS7909 regulations which you really don't won't to have to deal with. (Jail time if it goes wrong)

Stick with a generator.

Thanks Phunk, looking at lpg silent ones right now. :-)