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    Posted: 23 May 2011 at 7:47pm

Hi Creel

Beautiful!  Thanks for sharing your design.
 
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Posts: 32 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 May 2011 at 5:09pm
Hi Uncle Billy,

attached are photo's and a hand drawn circuit diagram, hope it makes sense.
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Posts: 16 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 May 2011 at 12:46pm
Hi Creel
 
Would greatly appreciate seing a wiring diagram and a picture of your installation is possible.  Sounds like a great solution!
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 May 2011 at 12:02pm
Well, keep your fingers crossed.....I am.  I popped in that store just to see what they had and thought what the heck....it's only money and I like to live dangerously. LOL
 
They had a 400 watt model for $117 and additional higher powered models.  I like the Samlex stuff on the web site you mentioned.  I'm also curious to see if I hear it on my Ham radio.
 
Going dry camping this weekend so, I'll post a review.
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Sounds like a deal, hopefully it holds up - the only problem with off-brand inverters is its a crap shoot on reliability and its actual sine wave output.  The forum I mentioned before talks about this all the time, one guy (with major design & troubleshooting skilz) ended up re-building half the circuitry in his off-brand inverter after it fried 10 minutes after opening the box.  When he replaced the part that fried he put it on an oscilloscope and found harmonic spikes all over the sine wave which led him to rebuild half of it.  Not trying to sound all doom and gloom!  If you have good results with yours I might get one myself.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 May 2011 at 6:50am
And the winner is.........
 
 
I found this at Fry's Electronics on the North side of Indy.  180 watts @ $80.  A brief 20 min. driveway test yielded good results.  I plan to give it a longer test this weekend and will have a better feel for how it performs.  It has one standard AC outlet and one USB outlet.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 May 2011 at 6:05am
Thanks, Tech!  $100 is do-able and, with it being pure sine wave, I would not be concerned about leaving it connected to the inverter all the time - depending how I end up doing all of the wiring/cabling.  At 150 watts, I would think it could handle a sat receiver also, if I ever decide to do that.  (Like you mentioned in another thread....Cha-Ching!)
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Posts: 9062 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 10:57pm

David, all of the inverters on that site are pure sine wave.

Farmers, yup, half the fun can be making the camper more useful.
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Posts: 32 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 7:51pm
Originally posted by Farmers

You guys are getting me more excited about doing mods than going camping!

hehehehehe...yes mods can be quite fun to do and after they're all done, you'll try and think of more to do!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 10:27am
Originally posted by Farmers

You guys are getting me more excited about doing mods than going camping!
 
LOL  I had planned to make this weekend my first assault of the season in "Campground Assault Vehicle #1.  However, we have gotten over 9" of rain here lately, so....Indiana is, for all practical purposes, a large mud hole.  I decided to just stay home.
 
I was so looking forward to inflicting myself on a bunch of peaceful, weiner roasting, smores gobbling, normal campers! Ouch 
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