Hi guys, I’ve been a bit AWOL from Pinside over the past four or five months, and one of the reasons why is because I’ve been dealing with trying to find a place for my Pinball collection.

Long story short, I’m losing access to the garage in which I have had my collection in the past 3+ years, which I’ve also used as a workshop. So in the next couple of months I’m going to have to find a new place to either put my collection in storage indefinitely, or find a new garage/workspace.

One idea I had was to put the games in a climate controlled storage unit that I currently have, and turn that into an arcade/workshop.

Like most storage units, mine does not have AC outlets of any kind in it. I was wondering if it’s feasible for me to consider using a power inverter, or even a couple of power inverters, to convert a storage space into a usable arcade/workshop? If that’s a dumb idea, my apologies, I truly know almost nothing about power inverters.

I was thinking I could put one or two in there, plug my games in to them, and also plug tools in like soldering irons, rotary tumbler, ultrasonic cleaner, etc. when I’m restoring a game.

Would something like that work? What size inverter or inverters would I need? How long does it charge typically last on one of those? Are they noisy?

Just trying to explore all my options.

OK this is sounding like it would not be an option then. I could not run a generator in a commercial storage unit anyway.

I do have only EM games if that matters, but it sounds like I would need a huge amount of power to make this work.