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tfirma
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Oct 04, 2015

Beginner Strategy question about dry camping / inverter use

Hello everyone! As I understand, why dry camping I can use by 12 V outlets for power - but NOT my 120V (those are only live when there is shore or generator power, as I was told). However, I am ...
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corvettekent
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Oct 04, 2015
Last year I installed two 160 watt solar panels and I have four 6 volt batteries. I used a modified sine wave 150 watt inverter to power the TV or charge the laptop. You should be fine using a small inverter like this but you may want to step up to a pure sine wave inverter.

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