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RoyB
Oct 30, 2015Explorer II
I would mount your high wattage INVERTER as close to the battery terminals as possible and still be inside the trailer for weather protection. I would also use either 4AWG or 2AWG size cables and proper BLUE SEA fuse holder assembly.
The high current will be on the 12VDC side between the battery and the Inverter. From there you can run an extension cord or hard wire in a wired up 120VAC receptacle near your kitchen area and this can be any distance away from the Inverter.
You might find this also very nice to have to run your home entertainment setup for the times when you are camping off the power grid somewhere.
We love our coffee too but find the electric coffee makers just draw to much current for us. Our plan when camping off the power grid is to have enough battery bank to do all the things we want to run using 120VAC with an Inverter and 12VDC items direct connected to battery terminals. this is planed out to do all of this in a one day/night run off the battery which requires us to re-charge the battery bank the next morning using our 2KW Honda generator to run our trailer on-board smart mode converter/charger to recharge our battery bank back up to its 90% charge state. Then we can do this all over again fro the next day/night run off the batteries. When I am running my generator i will make up my grind and brew bean coffee for the day brewed up into a thermos carafe. Like yours this only take takes around five minutes of being plugged into the INVERTER... The thermos carafe keeps it hot all day long...
Doing it this way we get by just fine with a 600WATT PURE SINE WAVE INVERTER ($259 AMAZON).
Roy Ken
The high current will be on the 12VDC side between the battery and the Inverter. From there you can run an extension cord or hard wire in a wired up 120VAC receptacle near your kitchen area and this can be any distance away from the Inverter.
You might find this also very nice to have to run your home entertainment setup for the times when you are camping off the power grid somewhere.
We love our coffee too but find the electric coffee makers just draw to much current for us. Our plan when camping off the power grid is to have enough battery bank to do all the things we want to run using 120VAC with an Inverter and 12VDC items direct connected to battery terminals. this is planed out to do all of this in a one day/night run off the battery which requires us to re-charge the battery bank the next morning using our 2KW Honda generator to run our trailer on-board smart mode converter/charger to recharge our battery bank back up to its 90% charge state. Then we can do this all over again fro the next day/night run off the batteries. When I am running my generator i will make up my grind and brew bean coffee for the day brewed up into a thermos carafe. Like yours this only take takes around five minutes of being plugged into the INVERTER... The thermos carafe keeps it hot all day long...
Doing it this way we get by just fine with a 600WATT PURE SINE WAVE INVERTER ($259 AMAZON).
Roy Ken
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