Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:28:12 GMT, "Jim" wrote:


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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On 11/19/2006 8:09 AM, Jim wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:25:01 GMT, James Sweet
wrote:


Inverters are rated in watts.

Less than two watts for 100 mini lights.

I ran two six foot Christmas trees, about 5 100 light mini string and
four light strings off a 350 watt inverter at last years Festival of
Lights in Putnam and it didn't even breathe hard.

Have a freakin' ball with the lights. :)

Try closer to 50W for a string of 100 mini lights, unless they're the
LED type.

No way. And just to prove a point, I went out to the garage and
looked on a box of colored mini lights - 150 string.

2.4 watts.


I was a little surprised honestly, but last year I acquired a
power analyzer and ran around plugging in everything I could find in
the
house. The Christmas tree with miniature lights on it was pulling
around
350W, at which point I started checking individual strings.
Incandescent
loads have a unity power factor, so you can measure the amp draw with
any cheap multimeter and use ohms law to calculate the watts.

Interesting - that string I ran on my truck drew less than 200 watts
total.

NO WAY
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I just checked a set of icicle lights.
Individual lights =2.5V
Total of 100 lights
Fuse = 3A
No where on the package could I find watts or amps rating.
Measured draw = 300MA or 36 W

You guys need something useful to do. Come on down here. Now that most of
the leaves have fallen off the trees in my woods, and the visibility is
good, I need some fallen timber cut up and hauled. I got 24" and 28" chain
saws, axes, carts, whatever you need.

How can anyone refuse an offer like that?


Agreed. :)

Tom could bring his 'Tree Farmer' to help out.
http://www.equipfind.com/logging/1985TreeFarmerC5D.htm