As many families we have a collection of electronic devices that have
various chargers. In a moment of inspiration it came to me was rather
than by 12 volt charges for all of them it would be cheaper to buy on
inverter.

The largest demand on the inverted would be the laptop whose charger
says that it consumes 1.7 amp at 120 volts. So I figure the inverter
should be capable of providing at least 240 watts.

What is the experience of other boater in using an inverter all of their
electronic devices, phones, palms, laptops, etc..?

Specifically any detrimental effects



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Keith Nuttle
3110 Marquette Court
Indianapolis, IN 46268
317-802-0699

Keith nuttle wrote in news:Un5Oi.503$LD2.374
@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net:

Specifically any detrimental effects



Any SINE WAVE inverter, and that's most of them, now, even the cheap ones,
will do what you want. Don't overbuy too much power. The idle current on
a huge inverter is much higher than on a 300W unit from WalMart and a waste
of battery power. You pay a little in amp drain from the conversion of
power, any time, but it's not much any more with these little inverters
that barely get warm. A 300W model would do what you want for those loads
with a little overhead to make it last longer. Of course, it's not going
to run the microwave you want later on, but I'd keep the little one still
to run these little loads.

The only detrimental effect is finding a place to hide the snake of wires
it all creates, but that's modern life...(c;


Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:43:17 -0400, Keith nuttle
wrote:

What is the experience of other boater in using an inverter all of their
electronic devices, phones, palms, laptops, etc..?

Specifically any detrimental effects

We have used a lot of inverters over the years, both on the boats andt
also in cars. They work and we've noticed no detrimental effects. If
you buy a sine wave inverter there is absolutely no difference in the
power quality.