2oldman wrote:
mkirsch wrote:
Making a pot of coffee off your battery is not the end of the world.
Nope, we just thought it was the end of the battery.
Yup.
The original poster of the most recent inquiry of which I am aware was thinking about a coffee maker on an 80 AH (ie, 960 WH) flooded cell lead acid battery using a 2,000 watt inverter. Such a battery is capable of at most 480 WH of power before you start drastically shortening its useful life. The combination of that battery, that inverter, and a coffee maker is, um, less than ideal.
Just for what it is worth, there is nothing magical about electric coffee makers. And when your most limited power source is an 80 AH battery, propane, either to run a percolator on your range top or a French press makes a lot more sense. You can do either of these for around $30 and have coffee out the yin-yang several times a day, every day until the cows come home. Or you can upgrade your battery, buy an inverter, spend your $500 more or less and use that electrical coffee maker to your heart's content. Your money, your choice. Choose wisely.
