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Gdetrailer
Jul 16, 2022Explorer III
Not to be smart, but, what does you inverter manual recommend?
Most inverter manuals will give you a chart with distance and wire size recommendations. Choose the recommended wire size for the distance and include a fuse near the battery sized to that wire size (fuse protects you from having your rig burn down to the ground if the wire or inverter shorts out)..
Small inverters like yours often come with short length of 10ga wire, 425W would be about 30A at 12V so 10 ga would be absolute minimum for short distance (less than 5ft), 8Ga might be better choice if distance to battery is longer..
Most inverter manuals will give you a chart with distance and wire size recommendations. Choose the recommended wire size for the distance and include a fuse near the battery sized to that wire size (fuse protects you from having your rig burn down to the ground if the wire or inverter shorts out)..
Small inverters like yours often come with short length of 10ga wire, 425W would be about 30A at 12V so 10 ga would be absolute minimum for short distance (less than 5ft), 8Ga might be better choice if distance to battery is longer..
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