Inverter

[Curt Sprenger]

I'm back to my curb side bay project. The bay will have a 12V radio/CD player, a
110V TV drawing 45 watts, and a 110V DVD player drawing 12 watts. The MAXX SST
400 inverter by Victor should provide plenty of power to the TV and DVD player.
It can be plugged into the bay cigarette lighter if the continuous load is below
150 watts. The cost is less than $40.00. Does anyone have experience with the
Victor line of inverters?

Curt Sprenger 1987 PT38, Anaheim Hills, Calif.

[Blair]

Kurt,
This is not really relevant to your post, however, in the June/July
issue of Home Power Magazine is a great article
about modifying and adding to an RV's ability to boondock. Full
description and parts list with good schematic. I'm saving
this one and will scan and file later. Blair




At 11:58 AM 7/26/2005, you wrote:
>I'm back to my curb side bay project. The bay will have a 12V radio/CD
>player, a 110V TV drawing 45 watts, and a 110V DVD player drawing 12
>watts. The MAXX SST 400 inverter by Victor should provide plenty of power
>to the TV and DVD player. It can be plugged into the bay cigarette lighter
>if the continuous load is below 150 watts. The cost is less than $40.00.
>Does anyone have experience with the Victor line of inverters?
>
>Curt Sprenger 1987 PT38, Anaheim Hills, Calif.
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[Curt Sprenger]

Blair,
Thanks, I'll take a look.

Curt Sprenger 1987 PT38, Anaheim Hills, Calif.



Blair wrote:

> Kurt,
> This is not really relevant to your post, however, in the
> June/July
> issue of Home Power Magazine is a great article
> about modifying and adding to an RV's ability to boondock. Full
> description and parts list with good schematic. I'm saving
> this one and will scan and file later. Blair
>
>
Curt Sprenger 1987 PT38, Anaheim Hills, Calif.

[M.L. Perkinson]

Hope some of you old pros will help. I am pretty much satisfied with my
generator and old charger set up, but have been thinking of getting a 2000 0r
4000 watt inverter and buying a 12 volt battery and placing both in the driver
side rear compartment and hooking it to the cheater with a 110 connection and
using it for quiet time. Question one-would this hook up provide power to all
connections in coach(understanding one could not use more than unit provides).

Question two-Say you hook up this way and use the full power. How long can one
do this before the battery charge is depleted? Thanks Maury 80 fc 31

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[Mike Hohnstein]

4 Concorde AGMs with 2500 Heart 3 stage inverter charger.
Over night is about it in my FC. Lights, TV, Microwave supper.
MH
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Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Inverter


Hope some of you old pros will help. I am pretty much satisfied with my
generator and old charger set up, but have been thinking of getting a 2000 0r
4000 watt inverter and buying a 12 volt battery and placing both in the driver
side rear compartment and hooking it to the cheater with a 110 connection and
using it for quiet time. Question one-would this hook up provide power to all
connections in coach(understanding one could not use more than unit provides).

Question two-Say you hook up this way and use the full power. How long can one
do this before the battery charge is depleted? Thanks Maury 80 fc 31

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[Tom Warner]

Just my opinion Maury but this was what I was going to do if I still
had my 1982 FC35 which I sold. I believe the addition of a 3 stage
charger/inverter is one of the best upgrades you can do. But again in
my opinion you need to do it right. I was going to relocate the
charger/inverter a Heart 2500 to the passenger side front
compartment. That will give you the very best setup since the
batteries and charger/inverter are close together. Run 10/2 wire from
the main power panel in the rear closet to power the charger portion
and another 10/2 cable from the inverter to a sub panel located below
the main power panel. Then 4/0 cables from the charger to the
batteries. I connected all of the interior wall receptacles and the
microwave to the subpanel. To really get the most out of the
batteries, charger/inverter you need a link 1000 to monitor
everything concerning 12VDC in the coach. The Link 1000 will allow
you to monitor the voltage and current out of the alternator, monitor
the current and voltage out of the generator if its running, the
current draw from the batteries and the state of charge of the batteries.

To me that really gets rid of a lot of guessing. You can set the
parameters you wish for the batteries, when you want to the link 1000
to shut off at which point you still have enough batteries to start
the engine. Remember the generator battery is a stand alone system
and is your back up if everything else wont work. You can still start
the generator up and recharge the batteries so in less then a minute
you can start the engine.

Just a suggestion but in my mind how it should be done. I am sure
there are others that will have more ideas for you. Good luck

tom warner
vernon center,ny
1985 PT 40

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>Hope some of you old pros will help. I am pretty much satisfied
>with my generator and old charger set up, but have been thinking of
>getting a 2000 0r 4000 watt inverter and buying a 12 volt battery
>and placing both in the driver side rear compartment and hooking it
>to the cheater with a 110 connection and using it for quiet time.
>Question one-would this hook up provide power to all connections in
>coach(understanding one could not use more than unit provides).
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>Question two-Say you hook up this way and use the full power. How
>long can one do this before the battery charge is depleted? Thanks
>Maury 80 fc 31
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[one_dusty_hoot]

Maury,
I don't believe you would be happy with what you propose
to do, here's why. Following are some electrical considerations:

You do not get something for nothing changing from a DC
to an AC current, matter of fact you loose in the loss of
efficiency of voltage conversion. Maybe 10-15% for a good unit.

Consider the perfect world with no loss. Power (watts) is
equivelant to voltage (V) times current (A). For ease in
calculating let's say the AC voltage is 125 and the DC
voltage is 12.5. To obtain 1 Amp @ 125VAC (125 Watts), a
perfect transfer from a 12.5 VDC battery source would have
to deliver 10 Amps, 1250 Watts-100 Amps, 2500 Watts-200 Amps.

At 100 Amps even the slighest resistance to the inverter
will reduce the available voltage in the transfer.

Batteries are rated in Amp Hours, 1 Amp x 1 Hour=1 Amp Hour
You can see that 1250 watts is sucking the battery hard and
this is why it is necessary to have a battery bank capable
of delivering a lot of current.

Bob Janes, '87 FC36, Greenville, SC







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> 4 Concorde AGMs with 2500 Heart 3 stage inverter charger.
> Over night is about it in my FC. Lights, TV, Microwave supper.
> MH
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: M.L. Perkinson
> To: wanderlodge forum ; wanderlodge
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:01 AM
> Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Inverter
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> Hope some of you old pros will help. I am pretty much satisfied
with my generator and old charger set up, but have been thinking of
getting a 2000 0r 4000 watt inverter and buying a 12 volt battery and
placing both in the driver side rear compartment and hooking it to
the cheater with a 110 connection and using it for quiet time.
Question one-would this hook up provide power to all connections in
coach(understanding one could not use more than unit provides).
>
> Question two-Say you hook up this way and use the full power. How
long can one do this before the battery charge is depleted? Thanks
Maury 80 fc 31
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[dspithaler@...]

Question ---- I was wandering if running an inverter when on the road to
use a few electrical appliances is a big draw on a 160 Amp alternator or is it
better to run the genny.
Don
89 SP 36'
Butler, PA


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[dspithaler@...]

Thanks Greg That is what I wanted to know. I just didn't want to over
work the alternator. Until my 1500W boat anchor quits that is what I will use.
Don
89 SP 36'
Butler, PA

My 94 heart inverter runs off the batteries. charging batteries and
using batteries are independent. the alternator is putting out more
amps than a 2800 watt inverter can use. I had a rig with one ac setup
to run off the inverter for road trips. I thought about setting my 94
pt up that way but kinda like to exersize the genset fully loaded with
all ac's running when I have the chance to. For the most part I use the
inverter. I am doing a 'inverter use test' now to prepare for
Quartzsite drycamp rally.

GregoryO'Connor
94ptRomolandCa

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[dspithaler@...]

Hi Shane Thanks for the nice picture of your coach. Looks like you
found a good one. I have never used my ice maker while on the road & that is
what I wanted to know. If you don't run it at night it will not run water out
on
the floor? I have hardwood in that area. We are not going to AZ this winter&
we were leaving for FL in the morning but I found a oil leak in the Jeep
that I'm going to have checked out first. We are going to save the big trip to
the north west for next summer. Are you still going to AZ ?
Take care
Don
89 SP 36'
Butler, PA

Hi Don,

I routinely use my inverter on the road to keep the ice maker going
and the laptop on and charging. During the day, it seems to draw no
more power than all of the lights do at night. I think that the draw
is usually around 65 amps when the ice maker is on. I do not leave the
ice maker on when I park for the night. Usually, it has no problem
staying cold for a few hours while we're sleeping.

Are you going to AZ this winter??

Shane Fedeli
85PT40
Hershey, PA






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