Phoning around Cape Town for the right unit at a fair price takes time. Send one request instead, with what it must run and how many you need, and we pass it to auto electrical and power suppliers who supply Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape.
Power Inverters (12V to 230V) in Cape Town
Shopping for a power inverter in Cape Town? Suppliers and auto electricians in Cape Town and around Western Cape can quote 12 V and 24 V pure sine inverters for bakkies, caravans, boats and camping, with the right cable, fuse and second battery setup. Tell them what you want to run.
New to this? Read the power inverters guide for the choices and the questions worth asking before you pay.
What to know locally in Cape Town
Offices in Century City and the CBD keep servers and networks on rack UPS units, while restaurants in Woodstock and Kloof Street put tills and card machines on small UPS units. Many flats in the City Bowl use a router UPS or a portable power station. CCTV systems in Claremont and Rondebosch complexes are often given their own 12 V battery backup supplies.
Cape Town: the supply, the weather and the buildings
The City of Cape Town supplies most of the metro, with Eskom supplying some areas directly. The wind is the local troublemaker: south-easters in summer and cold-front storms in winter bring down lines and trip feeders, and cable theft and substation faults add to the outages in parts. Townhouse complexes in the southern suburbs and the Atlantic seaboard ask for inverters that fit in small spaces, and businesses in Woodstock, Epping and Montague Gardens ask for UPS units and office backup. Many households in Claremont and Rondebosch add solar to a hybrid system. Wet winters and salt air near the coast are hard on equipment, so ask installers how the kit is protected.
Typical power inverters requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: a pure sine inverter and deep cycle battery for the TV and lights in a pinch
- Complexes, estates and body corporates: an inverter in the security patrol vehicle for radios, chargers and a spotlight
- Offices and home offices: an inverter in a company car or bakkie for laptops and site equipment
Local tips for Cape Town
Common here: compact hybrid inverters for townhouses and UPS units for offices. Ask each installer or supplier about this: ask whether the installer will handle any paperwork the City needs for a hybrid. Where they work from: epping, Montague Gardens and Paarden Eiland, with electricians in the southern suburbs.
Requests range widely: 150 W socket units to 3,000 W wired units. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for a pure sine inverter and deep cycle battery for the TV and lights in a pinch. One local point to raise: city of Cape Town or Eskom supply; wind, storms, cable theft and faults.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Requests from Cape Town go to installers and suppliers who already work in Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River and the rest of the area. Mention an estate with access rules, a double storey or a long cable run from the DB board, because they change the job.