Champion Inverter Cover 2500W

It's Champion's C90010, cut for their 2500W inverter, which is our 2.5kVA machine with the 4 litre tank. If yours is a bigger enclosed inverter of 2800W or more, you want the mid size enclosed cover. Cut-to-fit is the whole point of a branded cover, so it's worth getting the right one rather than the closest one.

A cover you have to remove before you can pick your unit up is a cover that ends up folded in your shed. The zip here opens over your carrying handle, so you grab it, move it and put it down without the cover coming off and without getting your hands on a dusty machine. On a 2500W inverter that gets carried out to the boat or the campsite regularly, that one detail is the difference between using the cover and owning one.

It isn't your running hours that kill a small inverter, it's the months in between. Moisture works into your control panel, dust packs into your air filter and cooling vents, and UV chalks the plastics and perishes your fuel lines. That's why the thing that started first go for you before Christmas won't fire in winter. Forty dollars of cover stops all three on a machine worth around a thousand, which is a decent return on the money.

Let yours cool right down first, because a hot exhaust marks the material and can melt it. And never cover your machine wet, because you've then sealed the moisture in with it, which is worse than leaving it out in the open. Wipe it down or give it twenty minutes in the air. If your generator lives outside all year, lift the cover on a dry day now and then and let it breathe.

Champion say water-resistant rather than waterproof, and that's the honest description. The vinyl sheds rain and keeps your inverter dry through ordinary weather, which is what a storage cover is for. It's not a sealed drum, so don't park your unit under a downpipe or in standing water. Put it somewhere that drains and the cover handles the rest. Ring the store on 03 7056 6732 if you want the fit confirmed against your model.