Induction Cooktop on Batteries?

[Mr_D]

Originally Posted by slabman

Today's trend is CLEARLY to all electric. There are all kinds of trade-offs, but bottom line is with all electric you aren't carrying that big ol' gas bottle around, filling up one of your bays. No risk of it blowing up on you, either. In all honesty, the few minutes you would be running your generator while frying eggs would be quite small...and...you will need to regenerate at some point if dry camping more than overnight.

I've been Rv'ing since 1957 (and two Dutch Stars in there) have NEVER heard of this happening.
The Magna is all electric except the two burner cooktop and all we have is a 5.5 gal propane tank.

[beech35p]

We replaced our gas cooktop with a double burner induction in our 06 DS. If you want to run off of the inverter it MUST be a true sine wave inverter! Learned this after the replacement. Choice is between shore power, gen set or true sine wave inverter. Experience is based on a True Induction brand cooktop.

[newmarpusher]

Originally Posted by HighwayRanger

Folks, I'm having a hard time getting a straight answer!

Can you, or can you not, run the True Induction cooktop off batteries only? And by run, I mean full burner use.

I've heard varying versions.....some say they can only run the cooktop on a half setting....others that you have to fire up the genset to use it at all.

I'd like a definitive answer before we make the final decision between all-electric or Princess propane cooktop.

Thanks!

Roy

On our 2015 all electric Ventana, the Induction cooktop is not wired to an Inverter circuit. So you'd have to do some re-wiring yourself to even get it to run on the batteries.

The microwave does work on the inverter. We just fire up the generator if we are going to cook on the induction cooktop. Mostly we just use the grill outside and the microwave anyway. I think we've use the Induction cooktop a handful of times in three months of ownership but we don't full-time.

Funny story, on our last RV, the salesman asked us how many burners the gas cooktop was while trading it in. The DW and I looked at each other and laughed, we had never even used it in three years of ownership.