How can I drive external electrical items from my car?

Question:
Can I use my car's engine as a generator, as its a 2.0 litre with 200bhp and 180lb/ft of torque, how much electrical power can it send out?? And how?

Answers:

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Hi You can get a thing called an inverter to run 240v electrical products from yours car, the largest one i know if is about 2000 watt but they do drain your battery pretty fast if the engine is not running!

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Only 12 volt D/C equipment can be run via the cigarette lighter socket. Anything more powerful will just knacker you battery.

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it will only give you what the alternater puts out unless you put some form of geny on it
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go to lowes to buy a little eletric generator

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Jack is correct. Of course you can run 240v from a car. You could run them off a 850cc 1975 mini if its got a lighter socket!

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Its best to get a good power rate, don't go for anything less than 400w as they just aren't worth it.

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On very long journeys, my kids run a playstation off of one of these in the back of a car. Worth every penny so as not to listen to "are we there yet?" over and over and over.

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edit: you can get 12v-240v inverters that go up to about 5000watts. May be worth getting a couple of these and using a second vehicle to power it.

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Consider Buying a Landy with a PTO to drive an alternator, or even buying a Generator van off a travelling fair.

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U have a car, think u think ur car is a fairground truck with its engine running as it drives a generator via the propshaft connection from gearbox.
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