La Piccola Piccola
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Question about La Piccola Piccola
Where does the information about the power consumption of 500 watts come from? I wanted to use the machine in my motorhome. I bought a 600 watt sine wave inverter, which I can't use now because the measured power consumption is 640 watts.
With these so-called inverters, you must not dimension them too tightly, especially for devices that call up this maximum power for minutes or even longer. Often there is also the question of what kind of nice round sine wave a certain device requires, which the inverter may not generate at all, but instead spits out a rather rough square wave (perhaps one reason why a demand of 640W instead of 500W presents itself?)
My personal measurements of the coffee machine have shown that it consumes pretty much exactly the specified 500W for heating. Once the operating temperature is reached, the 500W is only used intermittently to maintain it. If you let out a coffee, around just under 60W is needed (for this), for the pump. So the maximum power for me is 560W in each case.
So much for my measurements in my cosy kitchen with brand-new electrical installation. In a motorhome (I know the same problem in sailing yachts), the above-mentioned effects or similar can be added.