The fans they use in the inverters are pretty flimsy. I may go with one of the metal inverters that are mountable.
----- Original Message ---- From: Karl Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 4:21:37 PM Subject: Re: Inverter recommendations....? Three weeks ago I took a trip with a friend who brought a 300W inverter to power his laptop. It was originally from Radio Shack, and although it had worked well for several years it blew the cigarette lighter fuse the first time he plugged it in. He then bought another inverter at a K-Mart along the way. After 5 minutes of the 300W inverter running his 100W or so laptop it started to smell and was so hot you couldn't touch it. The fan in the inverter wasn't running. Blowing air past it with the vents on the dashboard of the truck cooled it off and it worked fine the rest of the trip. Quite a few years ago a friend bought a vise at Harbor Freight. While grinding something he had clamped in the vise he accidentally hit the vise with the grinder. Turned out a good part of the rather-sizable bulk and shape of the vise was bondo. After he had ground off all the bondo there was a rather puny, very rough looking piece of cast iron in the middle. Karl -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
