Inverters are handy when you are offgrid and need to use appliances that run on normal grid power (110v AC in the USA, 230v AC in most of the world).

After all, just because you’re offgrid it doesn’t mean you should be without good coffee!

Basically, an inverter converts 12v DC to 110v or 230v AC. There are inverters that use other input voltages (24v, 36v) but in this article, we discuss only 12v.