HuskyVacs and EurekaPrince, how many watts are the devices that you are using with your transformers rated for? If you’ve used 2000 watt cleaners before with yours, then it’s obviously fine.
While I do like to think that I have decent knowledge when it comes to electricity, I am most certainly no expert. I am just going by what I have learned from my grandpa and dad, as my grandpa was an electrician and my dad worked for him.
As I live in Canada and am only familiar with our power, unfortunately, when it comes to international electrical devices, I don’t really know how that all works. I am not much help. What I do know is that electricity is not something to be messed around with as it can be very dangerous.
However, I do understand how transformers work, despite HuskyVacs thinking that I don’t.
Transformers change the voltage. That is it. They are big and heavy because transformers are literally massive coils of wire. The more watts that they can handle, the larger those coils are. However, those coils are not producing their own electricity and are therefore limited to the wattage that is available from the outlet that they are pulling power from. The wattage that a transformer is rated for is how much that transformer can handle. If a transformer is rated for 5000 watts, it can indeed output 5000 watts. (Minus the downsizing percentage.) That Vevor one would be easily capable of supplying the power for your satellite. However, it can only provide 5000 watts (or 2000 watts in this case) if it has that wattage available from the outlet. As I mentioned earlier, you generally don’t want to go much above 1800 watts as that is roughly 15 amps. You could do a search on Google and look at a site or two to confirm this. This is why things like kettles, toasters, heaters, hair dryers, etc. are less wattage in North America versus Europe. Their regular outlets can handle that, but ours can’t. Your theory regarding why our hair dryers don’t go higher than 1875 watts is correct.
I really would not recommend plugging in something more than that simply for safety. Electrical fires do happen. The wires in the walls are rated for not much more than 15 amps. If you are pulling more than that, they can overheat and catch fire. A fire in a wall can easily spread. While a breaker should trip if too much current is being pulled, there are instances that it doesn’t. The breaker on the transformer would be no help in this situation because it would only trip if there is more than 5000 watts being pulled, which is far more than 15 amps.
The thing is that your 2000 watt Satellite is probably rated for max watts. Unlike a resistive load, like a heater or hair dryer element which always pulls the max load on full power, a motor’s consumption changes depending on the motor’s load. There is a good chance that it may not pull any more than 1800 watts while running normally, which means that it could run fine on our outlets. However, I have never used a 2000 watt vacuum, so I unfortunately do not know how many watts it would actually pull.
Now, if HuskyVacs or EurekaPrince or anybody else here has used a 2000 watt appliance with their transformer here with a regular outlet and never had the breaker trip or anything, then it is safe to say that you can safely use your Satellite. However, they never mentioned if they have used 2000 watt cleaners with theirs, so I don’t know if they have.
I would recommend what EurekaPrince recommended and reach out to a transformer company and see if they can help you. That way you know the definite answer.
I wish that I could be more help.
