Chuck, are you talking about the 1000 bulb strings that peole wrap
their Christmas trees 20 times with ? The ones with the box that makes
them doo all kinds of tricks?

or standard 120v. small bulbs.

the tinly little lights don't pull much at all individually, but still,
amps x volts = watts

you sould see on the string what the wattage is that will be needed to
carry them. and how many lights are you trying to pull with your
inverter?

It's really not difficult.


Chuck Gould wrote:
(The current ratio of off-topic to boating threads is running about
4:1. The current ratio of OT to boating posts is running almost 13:1).

I'm going to be rigging for a couple of lighted boat parades and I'm
trying to figure whether to run my Honda 1100 watt genset or run off of
the inverter. Anybody know, offhand, how many amps a string of the itsy
bitsy holiday lights might draw? If I can get a couple of hours of
light off the inverter bank
I won't screw around with the gasoline powered genset.