Showoff..... Inverter Box

[ndemge]

Built this this week....<br /><br />A few weeks ago, went camping and brought along a deep cycle, inverter, and charger. Camp site didn't have electric, used it to run a fan on the baby while it was really hot. <br /><br />A friend of mine really liked the idea of a fan in his tent and asked what it would take... so decided to make this:<br /><br />Contains:<br />90 ah AGM Deepcycle<br />15 amp rv charger<br />300 watt AC Inverter<br /><br />You plug it in to charge with a standard PC power cable, so no wires stick out.<br /><br />Amp meter in series, with a volt meter on a momentary switch.<br /><br />12 volt exhaust fan to cool inverter and charger, holes covered with speaker grills.<br /><br />If I build another one, I'll pay someone to cover it, I'm not very good an aphulstry.<br /><br />

 

[TwoBallScrewBall]

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Nice. Next one should have all terrain wheels and a pull handle...

 

[Paul Moir]

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Cool unit!

 

[NBE]

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Being lazy and not wanting to do the calculations, what type/size fan and about how long will this contraption power it before it needs a recharge?<br /><br />Thanks! Good job by the way.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Do I sense a new power supply for a multiple firing device for the fireworks..... I can visualize more multiple uses.<br /><br />Bob

 

[Mark42]

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Very nice unit. Pretty neat that you thought of it and made it. Most people stop after the thought part.

 

[ndemge]

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Stiff.... After moving it around, yes, it needs some help on the portability side, all good if you have 2 poeple.<br /><br />BradE...We had a 12" ossolating fan when we went camping, pretty much got 2 full nights out of it with a strand of xmas lights on for a little while while getting the kids to bed.<br /><br />Mark.... have had enough projects that had the concept, but just not enough time to start and finish. Total in this thing is about 5 hours.

 

[ndemge]

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The wires...<br /><br />Look! Crimped and solder in the same project! <br /><br />

 

[briannh1234]

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I had a simular idea but never did anything with it. I was going to add an inverter to my jump-n-carry. The jump-n-carry had the battery and the charger, just not the inverter.<br /><br />I would have been a 17aH battery, so I don't think it would have had the same runtime as yours.<br /><br />Nice unit.

 

[ZmOz]

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Here's one of mine:<br />

<br />I have an 800 watt power inverter that hooks onto the side with a voltage gauge. Inside is a 40AH Hakwer battery that's happy with 100% discharges. The posts on top let me hook up a set of jumper cables...the battery has 1200 cranking amps. I've also made many smaller ones...since small SLA batteries are so cheap.

 

[ndemge]

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Zmoz... That's one thing I completely forgot, was a 12volt socket.... remmebered it after I finished with the aphulstry.