JimK-NY wrote:
JoeChiOhki wrote:
JimK-NY wrote:
What are you planning on running with this pure sine wave inverter?
Mostly the same stuff we were running off the Modified, small electronics (TV, roku, laptops, low load stuff) and the 2-way fridge while driving (We have a whole change over circuit that switches a block of outlets between the short power outlet and the inverter circuit.
I fail to see the need. My TV runs on 12volts. I have laptop and cellphone chargers that are 12 volt. My wife's CPAP runs on 12 volt. The refrigerator is 12 volts. About all that remains are camera and flashgun battery chargers and I have a small, cheapie, non-sine wave inverter for charging them.
Your refrigerator may be 12 volts, mine is thermo-mechanical and 40+ years old (Its a 1974 Swedish made electrolux Ammonia Absorption Fridge that uses a flint striker to light the burner), as this is going in a 1975 Camper that I've been restoring. The fridge has no control circuit like new units, and if it blows out, its out. It only has a 110volt electrical element and a gas burner and there's no provision to add a 12volt element.
At this point I'm simply replicating the solution I'd used for about six years in my 1974 KIT that the 1975 Amerigo is replacing and moving the very dependable electrolux into the Amerigo. For optimal cooling, I setup my rig with a lift gate 100amp 12 volt system for the charge circuit and created a two switchable system that allowed me to swap part of the camper (one circuit) between the inverter feed and the shore power feed, which allowed me to drive the 110volt heating element off my 400 watt modified sinewave inverter in the KIT.
Since I had this nice switching circuit, it enabled me to purchase better quality standard electronics, such as the mini-Nas/Plex server, plus the Roku and a decent LED flat screen TV for the bed room (Which gave us a nice tidy and tiny digital movie library for watching when we wanted to chill in bed or for my wife to watch if the area we're driving through doesn't really interest her as she can connect to it wirelessly and stream movies or TV without needing the internet). All of which will be going into the Amerigo as I swap the extra tech from the KIT in.
We use our camper for more than camping, as well. It gets used as a portable dressing room for when we do costume performances at different conventions, and the extra niceties are good for when the camper is parked on the side of a street near a convention center.
