Adding Inverter/Charger.Questions
Hi all, Looking at getting a budget inverter/charger unit from Tripp Lite for my 71 caveman Truck Camper. Currently my 110v and 12v systems are totally separate. I have shore power that feeds a ...
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Talisman -- we know it wasn't technically correct, but we charged and ran many things from the modified sine wave inverter on our sailboat (including the Keurig coffee maker for 152 mornings in a row) for 15 years living aboard. Never (that we know of) had anything die except a battery for David's Makita power tools. We charged sat phone & cell phones, VHF handheld radios, David's Dell, my macbook and ran the Garmin GPS hardwired for navigation underway. Everything (and everyone) said not to do it, but we couldn't afford a true sine wave inverter - and didn't have space for it if we could have afforded it. We tried to use it sparingly when we started living on the hook, but after several years it was just easier to use it than to work around it. Guessing we were just lucky ....
