kandkbrand wrote:
If I ran 12 gauge wire strait to the battery, would there be any loss due to long length of wire?
Any loss? Sure, some - but voltage drop depends on load, the more you draw the greater the loss, just as it will be greater the longer you make the run to the battery. Conversely, the heavier the gauge of the wire and the shorter the run the less voltage drop will be. Here's a handy
Blue Sea DC Wire Gauge Chart to help guide you. For a small inverter, say 100 watts or so, 12 gauge would be fine but this is the reason those of us running a much larger 1000+ watt inverter and expect to use it to capacity find it best to locate the inverter as close to the battery as possible and use as heavy a gauge of cable as possible to wire it in.
