What does 'Inverter' mean?
Find out what Inverter means. Inverter is explained by Lindsay de Feliz - author of What about your saucepans
Inverter
Electricity is a big problem in the DR in that there isn’t much of it. There are four different types of circuit depending on where you live – starting at A circuits which provide electricity 24 hours a day, down to a D circuit which provides 10 to 12 hours a day. B and C are somewhere in the middle. However, even if you are on an A circuit, the electricity will still go off periodically, and most people have an inverter which is linked to a number of batteries. When there is electricity it charges the batteries and when it goes off the batteries provide the power throughout the house.Search result for 'Inverter' in What about your saucepans
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"...Invertertricity was a joke. It was off more than it was on, and was not strong enough to run my lovely double door fridge, so the fridge had to go and be replaced with a tiny one. To solve the electricity problem, Danilo had installed an Inverter, a white box ..."
