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rushin roulette wrote:Does look like a capable little product. Amazon has them at a good price, along with a few user reviews. I tried posting the link, but it comes up dead at Amazon.
At 1350 watts it'll pull a lot more power than a micro, but the convection function speeds things up quite a bit.
No it DOES NOT PULL A LOT MORE WATTAGE THAN MOST MICROWAVES. You are confusing cooking power wattage, with total wattage consumed by the microwave. These two wattages ARE NEVER THE SAME, cooking power wattage is only about 60% of the total wattage consumed by the average microwave. Example the 700 watt microwave in my 190P RT consumes about 1,200 watts when operating. AT 1,350 watts the Sanyo uses only 150 watts more.
For the short periods that I run my Sanyo, I am able to run it off my 1,800 watt inverter when boondooking. I picked the Sanyo because it will fit in the drawer/cabinet that the old CRT TV used in my 2002 Chevy 190 Popular RT. My new LCD TV hangs on the back of that cabinet now the Sanyo stores in the TV cabinet (totally out of site when not in use) and slides out on the drawer when I want to bake or toast.
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Scoose me for not knowing the ratings! My 1KW rated Sharp home model pulls 1400 watts and has since new 4 years ago. NO NEED TO YELL!
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rushin roulette wrote:Scoose me for not knowing the ratings! My 1KW rated Sharp home model pulls 1400 watts and has since new 4 years ago. NO NEED TO YELL!
I only replied because your post stated incorrect wattage information that most reads would believe to be true. As a result of your post they would think that Sanyo's oven/toaster wattage ratings were much higher than most microwaves. The fact that you just posted your microwave's true wattage consumption is 1,400 watts, and not 1,000, indicates that you must have checked its rating after my last post.
Confusing the two ratings, or not knowing that microwaves even have two ratings is a common mistake. I just wanted to correct the facts. Please do not take it personally.
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Nuthing personal at all.
I've known my Sharp turned 71% of its total power consumed into RF in the box. I applied that 71% to a 700 watt rated microwave (common from B builders) to arrive at 1000 watts or so of overall use. Granted all rules of thumb ignore the many variations in thumbs, but when I looked at the 1350 pull of the toaster oven, I figured 35% higher usage was pretty substantial - especially since most of us hit the wall at 2800 from an Onan gas.
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I saw the I-wave this weekend at Sharper Image in a mall in Louisville, KY. I didn't check their website, but it may be available there too. Seems like $199 was about right.
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mwood wrote:I saw the I-wave this weekend at Sharper Image in a mall in Louisville, KY. I didn't check their website, but it may be available there too. Seems like $199 was about right.
It's only $130 + shipping from Skymall.
What were your impressions of the iWave? Big enough to be useful?
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Looked fine to me. I don't think you'll be cooking a turkey in it though. We use a microwave to reheat a burger or a piece of pizza, defrost a pound of meat, make hot chocolate, make popcorn. etc. It would work for any of that.
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My question is "why do they put only a microwave in the Bs anyway"? Seem everyone then has to run out and buy a toaster oven/convection combo. I would prefer a micro/convect combo from the git go. JMHO
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NoraExplora wrote:My question is "why do they put only a microwave in the Bs anyway"? Seem everyone then has to run out and buy a toaster oven/convection combo. I would prefer a micro/convect combo from the git go. JMHO
The newer Roadtreks (and I'm sure some of the others) have combo microwave/convection ovens
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NoraExplora wrote:My question is "why do they put only a microwave in the Bs anyway"? Seem everyone then has to run out and buy a toaster oven/convection combo. I would prefer a micro/convect combo from the git go. JMHO
In Roadtreks case, it is simply a matter of size and/or depth of cabinets. RT does put a large (1 cu ft) microwave/convection oven in the 210 Popular, RS and SS models. However, in the RT 170's and 190's because of the slope of the sides of the RV they do not have the needed cabinet depth (most microwave/convection ovens are rather deep in design and require a lot of venting to remove excess heat). In the case of the 210 Versatile were the microwave must be mounted below the counter because of the additional seating, they just do not have the room.
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