power inverter

[greg press]

Today i did something a little strange.My speedometor has never been right but i decided it wasn’t worth fixing and my radio hasn’t worked well.I had a 400 watt inverter so i hooked it up to the battery hid the inverter under the seat attached a old gps that i had laying around and a old boom box.I also hide all wires. GPS is  on the hump in front of emergency brake.[hope the satilite will it]. I not only used up my junk ,i now have the correct speed i’m going,satilite directions so i can find my way home and i can listen to great music above the roar of my engine. Tomorrow i will give it a try.    

[newkitman]

Things that make you go hmm……………. Nice idea. Hope it all works well for you.

Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The Shack

[greg press]

It works.The only problem i can forsee is i wonder how much power it draws.  Hopefully not to much. I have to remember to turn it off.

[Royal]

Since you now have 110vac in your TDr, you could just plug in your battery charger and not worry about it. 

[edward ericson]

I think if you plug a boom box into a power inverter you’re double-inverting it. The box wants something like eight 1.5 volt D batteries. But they were monster battery-eaters and so they were made with a plug-in cord which converted the house current to 12 volts DC.

So what you’re doing now is taking the 12 volts DC that the boom box wants, converting that to 110/120 ac, plugging the box in, and the box is converting it back to 12 volts.

That’s my guess, anyway.

The inverter makes the TD into a very small camper though. You could plug in a little ‘frige or a hot plate. So I think it’s totally worth having and will totally bring something to plug into it at Carlisle.

How’d it work, BTW?

edsnova2012-04-14 17:16:30

[ray10]

I have inverters in both my trucks and my camper. Need to charge up some of our toys while were  on the road.Also get a battery that will cut off the power if it gets to low or an inverter that has a low battery alarm ?live and learn the hard way, dead battery on camper and truck while camping!!!!! 

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[greg press]

I also came up with another idea.My wife like most women is always cold. She  will only go for rides on 75 plus degree days an never at night.I have a small electric ceramatic heater that i heat my 200 sq. ft. work shop with when its 20 degrees out. I could heat the car interior to 100 degrees plus with the side curtians on    

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