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I made another thread about running saws off battery. Found some other threads where people discuss it and don't have issues, but I'd like to know what happens if you're trying to run something and don't have enough surge power. Is it like when a you can't get a car to turn over with a dying...

It is 120V - here's the saw: https://deltamachinery.com/products/table-saws/36-725t2/ The surge power on that inverter is rated at 15000w. Though it seems like to hit that I'd still need two batteries.

Sounds good, thank you. If the surge was an issue, the most likely solution would be another battery and to run them in parallel so that I could make full use of that 6500w capacity on the inverter?

Ah, okay, yeah it is 100A. So I'd need two to get that full wattage, but that would boost my price quite a bit and would be overkill on storage. Though... maybe not such a bad thing. I could just start with one though and see how it works out and upgrade if I need it later though couldn't I...

Awesome, this info is much appreciated thank you. I don't know if posting links to equipment is allowed here, but I was looking at a 6500w inverter and the battery is a 48v LiFEPO. The usage hours you provided are useful too. It seems like this would be much more affordable to me than running...

I don't intend to run the system of panels. The batteries should be the main source of power. Do you follow that rule of thumb just for the sake of having available power? If my system failed and I really needed to cut, I could run extensions, so I do have that as a back up.

Ah, thanks. I didn't realize watt ratings were for continuous usage, I was reading them as the absolute ceiling. Though in this case I will have dust collection going as well, which is around 800w. Surge questions aside, is it good to have some overhead on total watt usage? Also, moving down to...

Hi all, new here. I'm looking to build a small setup for my garage. The table saw will be the biggest draw. At 1.75 hp it should pull 4000w on startup and ~1800 watts when running. Would a 6500w inverter like this work for this case...