Jim,
Took the words out of my mouth. Yes it is more effecient going 12v, but not
near 10 times. There is always power loss during any conversion and an
inverter is no different. I do know that the watt draw for the tv we got
was the lowest we could find locally. I figured 8 amp/hour for the new tv
and 2 amp/hour for the digital satellite receiver. These figures are from
rvsolar.com. When I get a 100 watt solar panel, three batteries with my 2K
generator we will be ready to boondock with at least 3 hours of tv per night.
...........Brian...........
73 Safari
At 03:31 PM 4/19/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Rusty,
> It should draw 10 times the CURRENT, not POWER when operating from an
>inverter. Remember that POWER is VOLTS times AMPS. There definitely is a
>small loss of efficiency from the inverter, but it's not quite as bad as
>you describe.
>
> <<Jim>>
>
>Rusty Coonfield wrote:
>>
>> i learned that anything connected to an inverter uses 10 times the
>> amount of power that a DC powered appliance would and thus shortening
>> your battery time a bunch!
>>
>> -rusty
>> fayetteville,AR
>> 76 land yacht (in CA w/ girlfriend)
>>
>> B W Ganoe wrote:
>> >
>> > Bob,
>> >
>> > Why not use an inverter. I bought a 300 watt portable unit from Camping
>> > World as a standby till I do the solar panels, extra batteries, whole
coach
>> > inverter thing. I just bought a new(low watt consumption" 13" AC tv and I
>> > can run both a satellite receiver and tv off a single battery with the
300
>> > watt inverter while boondocking.........but not for a long period of
time.
>> > That, will be addressed in phase II. ;~)
>> >
>> > ............Brian...........
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