Phoning around Pretoria 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 Pretoria and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Power Inverters (12V to 230V) in Pretoria
Shopping for a power inverter in Pretoria? Suppliers and auto electricians in Pretoria and around Gauteng 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.
The main power inverters page explains the equipment, the safety points and the costs in more detail.
What to know locally in Pretoria
Around the University of Pretoria in Hatfield and Brooklyn, students buy router UPS units and small power stations to keep studying through an outage. Doctors' rooms and pharmacies along Rigel Avenue and in Menlo Park put reception computers and vaccine fridges on a UPS. Guest houses in Arcadia often add emergency lights in passages, and security companies ask for battery backup on gate cameras and alarm panels.
Pretoria: the supply, the weather and the buildings
The City of Tshwane supplies most of Pretoria, with Eskom serving some areas on the northern and western edges directly. Interruptions here tend to come from overloaded mini-substations in fast growing eastern suburbs, cable theft and the violent thunderstorms that roll in on summer afternoons. Pretoria sits lower than Johannesburg and gets warmer, so a battery bolted to a west facing garage wall in Moreleta Park or Garsfontein can run hot in January. Families in the east want whole house essentials covered, embassies and guest houses in Arcadia and Waterkloof ask for quiet systems, and the student flats of Hatfield and Sunnyside lean on small UPS units and power stations for study.
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 Pretoria
Common here: hybrid inverters with 48V lithium banks for family homes in the eastern suburbs. Ask each installer or supplier about this: ask where the battery will hang and whether that wall gets the afternoon sun. Where they work from: installers in Silverton, Pretoria West and Rosslyn; battery shops along Lynnwood Road.
Around Pretoria the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means a pure sine inverter and deep cycle battery for the TV and lights in a pinch. Before you agree to anything: fuse at the battery; never wire into a house. The supply here: city of Tshwane, Eskom direct on some edges; mini-substation faults and storms.
Service area: Pretoria and surrounds
Requests from Pretoria go to installers and suppliers who already work in Centurion, Hatfield, Waterkloof, Montana, Silver Lakes, Mooikloof, Akasia 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.