I suggest if you want to power serious items that you attach the DC-AC
inverter directly to the 12 V battery. Remember, for a 100 W load at
110 V, the current at 12 V will be about 10 A, which is about the limit
of most wiring at an outlet in a car. In any case, you need to know the
wiring limit, in addition to the battery limit.
Ed
Jed Rothwell wrote:
Actually, any car will do, but a hybrid is particularly well-suited to
this application. See:
http://www.invertersrus.com/priusinverter.html
If I did not already have an emergency 3 kW generator I would get one of
these gadgets. I am thinking of getting the 75 W version, that plugs
into the dashboard DC outlet.
I have heard that this $34 "Kill-A-Watt" AC watt meter is pretty good too:
http://www.invertersrus.com/killawatt.html
I would like to buy one and send it to Mark Mills, the guy who claims
that the average personal computer consumes 1 kW. That would be pretty
funny except that resident Bush and the Wall Street Journal have quoted
him, and he has been invited to testify before Congress. He is with the
Greening Earth Society, the coal industry front organization that is
trying to convince the world that global warming is good for you.
This gives you an idea of who makes national energy policy in the U.S.,
and how much they know about the subject.
- Jed
