Joined: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:33 pm Posts: 38
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My Toyota RAV4 has several 12 volt power ports. I was thinking I could plug my Vagabond I batteries into one of them using a regular non-pure sine wave inverter or two. The idea is that I can recharge my five Vagabonds as I drive around for several hours every day. The inverters come in a number of different watt capacities. After reading the info on some of them, I'm coming to the conclusion that the bigger inverters (~700 watts) need to be connected directly to the car battery. The limitation is the wires running to the built in 12v outlets in the car, which aren't very heavy gauge. What if I bought a smaller inverter, such as 400w, plugged an outlet strip into it and then plugged all five Vagabonds into that? Idea is to top off the charge and extend battery life? What if I just ran one Vagabond I off one ~400w inverter, and switched to another one every day to rotate them? Hmm. Couldn't I do exactly that now without buying an inverter? I have several of the 12 volt charging plugs that came with Vagabond I.
Kent in SD
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