"Jim" wrote in message
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Neither one will allow you to
make coffee and microwave something at the same time

I'd bet the farm anyone who would even think this way is the guy who
always has battery problems.


Think this way? I don't understand what you mean.

I doubt that most people realize how much current a coffee maker draws when
it is making (versus keeping warm) coffee.

I use my inverter for making coffee all the time. I use it for the microwave
a lot too. Occasionally, especially when there are two cooks in the
kitchen, we accidentally attempt both at the same time. The inverter lets
us know it isn't happy and shuts down.

No problem with the batteries.

Rod

I mean the guy has a 24 foot power boat, probably with two group 27
batteries. Maybe 100 amps, probably less.

Better use the stove for coffee. My opinion, you are welcome to disagree.

I was a bit rough, wasn't I? Didn't mean to be. I don't agree with a
lot of people's opinions on power usage. I say, why use electricity for
something that's done better without it.

Rod McInnis wrote:

"Jim" wrote in message
news
Neither one will allow you to
make coffee and microwave something at the same time

I'd bet the farm anyone who would even think this way is the guy who
always has battery problems.



Think this way? I don't understand what you mean.

I doubt that most people realize how much current a coffee maker draws when
it is making (versus keeping warm) coffee.

I use my inverter for making coffee all the time. I use it for the microwave
a lot too. Occasionally, especially when there are two cooks in the
kitchen, we accidentally attempt both at the same time. The inverter lets
us know it isn't happy and shuts down.

No problem with the batteries.

Rod

Electricity for a coffee maker is about the worst, since you can make far better
coffee "by hand," either with a manual drip into a Thermos, or with a French
Press.



"Jim" wrote in message
ink.net...
I mean the guy has a 24 foot power boat, probably with two group 27
batteries. Maybe 100 amps, probably less.

Better use the stove for coffee. My opinion, you are welcome to disagree.

I was a bit rough, wasn't I? Didn't mean to be. I don't agree with a
lot of people's opinions on power usage. I say, why use electricity for
something that's done better without it.

Rod McInnis wrote:

"Jim" wrote in message
news
Neither one will allow you to
make coffee and microwave something at the same time

I'd bet the farm anyone who would even think this way is the guy who
always has battery problems.



Think this way? I don't understand what you mean.

I doubt that most people realize how much current a coffee maker draws when
it is making (versus keeping warm) coffee.

I use my inverter for making coffee all the time. I use it for the microwave
a lot too. Occasionally, especially when there are two cooks in the
kitchen, we accidentally attempt both at the same time. The inverter lets
us know it isn't happy and shuts down.

No problem with the batteries.

Rod

"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
...
Electricity for a coffee maker is about the worst, since you can make far
better
coffee "by hand," either with a manual drip into a Thermos, or with a
French
Press.


If your boat has a propane stove, then making coffee by boiling water on the
stove is a great way to go.

If your boat has an electric stove (which many boats do) then boiling water
on the stove uses a LOT more electricity simply because the heat transfer
from the stove is no where near as good as a coffeemaker. Besides, you
can't run the stove off a typical inverter so you have to fire up the
generator (if you have one).

Rod

A buddy of mine keeps one of those butane, single burner stoves in the
oven of his alcohol stove. When he wants to make coffee, he puts the
thing on top of the useless alcohol stove top.

Those things are safe, cheap and work great. (butane is lighter than
air, and has a visible hot flame.) If I had an electric stove, I'd keep
one of those things in it.

Rod McInnis wrote:
"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
...

Electricity for a coffee maker is about the worst, since you can make far

better

coffee "by hand," either with a manual drip into a Thermos, or with a

French

Press.



If your boat has a propane stove, then making coffee by boiling water on the
stove is a great way to go.

If your boat has an electric stove (which many boats do) then boiling water
on the stove uses a LOT more electricity simply because the heat transfer
from the stove is no where near as good as a coffeemaker. Besides, you
can't run the stove off a typical inverter so you have to fire up the
generator (if you have one).

Rod

"Jim" wrote in message
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(butane is lighter than air, and has a visible hot flame.)

Are you sure that butane is lighter than air?

I thought that the only fuel suitable for cooking that was lighter than air
was natural gas.

Rod