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- My credo
- The perfect is the enemy of the good.
I want to have AC current available, probably not a lot of watts.
I have DieHard Silver battery, it's 590 cold cranking and 100 reserve. Does that mean that, say I have an inverter, and run the batter "dead", that it still has 100 to start the vehicle? I'm confused.
And it doesn't tell me how many amp-hours it has, is there any way to tell? If I knew that, then I'd know how much I can run stuff (with the truck not running) before it's a problem.
I could carry spare battery... but... yuck.
Also, some of the small inverters go into the 12V Aux, larger, they have to be wired in. Would you wire it right to the battery then into the cab, or what? Would you run it thru the fuse box?
For instance, a 30" tv takes about 60 watts. That's not much. If you ran it for an hour, you'd use about .5 amp-hours (of 120V current). I have no idea what that translates to in use of DC current.
You can get them all the way from 25 bucks, which might even be enough for me (hooks into 12V Aux) way up to multiple kilowatts, way beyond what I need. I might want something like 400 watts or so, if I'm doing it, I don't want to necessarily get the minimum.
Sure would appreciate any help. Thanks.
I have DieHard Silver battery, it's 590 cold cranking and 100 reserve. Does that mean that, say I have an inverter, and run the batter "dead", that it still has 100 to start the vehicle? I'm confused.
And it doesn't tell me how many amp-hours it has, is there any way to tell? If I knew that, then I'd know how much I can run stuff (with the truck not running) before it's a problem.
I could carry spare battery... but... yuck.
Also, some of the small inverters go into the 12V Aux, larger, they have to be wired in. Would you wire it right to the battery then into the cab, or what? Would you run it thru the fuse box?
For instance, a 30" tv takes about 60 watts. That's not much. If you ran it for an hour, you'd use about .5 amp-hours (of 120V current). I have no idea what that translates to in use of DC current.
You can get them all the way from 25 bucks, which might even be enough for me (hooks into 12V Aux) way up to multiple kilowatts, way beyond what I need. I might want something like 400 watts or so, if I'm doing it, I don't want to necessarily get the minimum.
Sure would appreciate any help. Thanks.