Over the past few years, with more and more demand for portable electronics for people working on the road, or wanting to take their creature comforts away with them on a camping or boating trip, there has been an increase in the range of inverters on the market, and the quality and value for money offered by products such as the Xantrex Sine Wave Inverter has improved. 
A Xantrex Sine Wave Inverter is designed to produce the equivalent of mains power from a low voltage supply.  They are able to convert the stable 12v power generated by a battery into a 240v AC supply that will allow you to run appliances such as a microwave oven that is designed for use in the home in a caravan or on a boat where the power supply is provided by a battery.
Xantrex Sine Wave Inverters are also a particularly useful tool for a mobile mechanical service.  They can be used to provide adequate electrical power to operate power tools away from the workshop, and this will enable an engineer to carry out much more complex jobs on the roadside than would otherwise be possible.
There are two principal types of Xantrex Sine Wave Inverter – the modified sine wave (MSW), and true sine wave systems (TSW), and these serve similar purposes, albeit with different levels of accuracy and effectiveness. 
A MSW inverter is able to provide a good approximation of AC power from a DC source; however the oscillation of the power levels is “stepped”, and does not follow a completely smooth waveform.  This means that there can be a certain amount of interference within the supply of power, and this may cause problems with complex devices.  Xantrex Sine Wave Inverters that use the MSW model are typically cheaper than the altern