I wonder that myself sometimes. If I read the schematics correctly (which I admit I could be doing wrong.) The typical 12vdc to 110vac inverter has 2 stages. The first being to boost the 12v to 170vish and then to turn that into 110vac. I looked at that inverter myself as an emergency power source and I have 170Vdc to start with so it seems to me it is a dc to ac inverter without the first stage yet its much more than a standard 12v square wave (modified) inverter.
For that price I could get a pure wave inverter and just use 12v.
Somewhere on evdl there is a post about someone removing the 12v to 170v step and going from pack voltage to ac but not much meat on the post.
Id love to hook my pack voltage to a pure sine wave inverter and power my house in a power outage but I have 12 60ah ts cells laying around and I could put them together at 12v and use a psw inverter for $200 from ebay.
If you find one let us know Im sure we arent the only ones looking to use our cars as emergency power.
For that price I could get a pure wave inverter and just use 12v.
Somewhere on evdl there is a post about someone removing the 12v to 170v step and going from pack voltage to ac but not much meat on the post.
Id love to hook my pack voltage to a pure sine wave inverter and power my house in a power outage but I have 12 60ah ts cells laying around and I could put them together at 12v and use a psw inverter for $200 from ebay.
If you find one let us know Im sure we arent the only ones looking to use our cars as emergency power.