You loose a lot of electricity when you convert from DC to AC. Unless I was running a generator I would not mess with any kind of DC to AC inverter at all. If you look you can find anything you want to run that will run on direct current, fans, AC, lights, computers, TVs, DVDs, refrigerators, well pumps, etc. We all are too dependent on electricity. We all need to look at how the Amish gets by with no electricity and how everyone got by without any electricity in the 1800's and start going to bed early enough to be up by daybreak. We all need to be ready for the OPFOR to strike at dawn.