kandkbrand wrote:
If I am tapping into a 12v power source, do the 12v wires look different that the AC wires (just curious), and do I need to wire in a fuse to the new tapped in line, or will the Inverter take care of that. I have spliced into lines in my home, so I am assuming I would do the same thing with the 12v wires.
or could I just replace my current attena connection with this...
https://accessories.lazydays.com/winegard-white-power-receptacle-rv7042-24-0450
120 vac receptacles will be wired in most cases with 14/2 Romex while 12 vdc and radio speakers are often wired with paired zip cord. If you don't know one from the other then you'd be best to have someone more familiar with electrical wiring do this for you. Sure, you could replace your current television wall plate with the Winegard model you've linked to ... simpler, because once you connect +/- 12 vdc to it you'll have that 12 vdc on the cigarette lighter receptacle. As long as you limit the size of your inverter to say 100 watts (which would draw ~ 8 amps at full load) you'd be fine ... any more than that and you'd be better to wire directly back to the battery with much heavier gauge cable ... and yes, in that case you'd want to fuse the positive cable where it connects to the battery. In my case I'm using an 80 amp fuse for my 1000 watt inverter, those with even larger inverters would use an even larger fuse.
