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inverter question
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I own a 1988 LD FL. I am considering the purchase of a 400 Watt(800 Watt peak power) plugin inverter to power my 9 inch Color TV/VCR that uses 60 Watts of power. My house battery is a single 12 volt 95 amp.
I also have a powewr booster on the antenna. Your thoughts, opinions.... Am Ion the right track here? The inverter is $50 and a modified sine wave.  Let me know   Thom
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I own a 1988 LD FL. I am considering the purchase of a 400 Watt(800 Watt peak power) plugin inverter to power my 9 inch Color TV/VCR that uses 60 Watts of power. My house battery is a single 12 volt 95
amp.

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I also have a powewr booster on the antenna. Your thoughts, opinions.... Am Ion the right track here? The inverter is $50 and a modified sine wave
Get return privileges on the inverter. Try the combo in a poor reception area if it works fine at home. Finally, if everything works, you are not really set up for more than a day or two of dry camping before excessively depleting your house battery.

A couple hours of TV watching will use up 12 A-hrs of your 95 A-hr capacity. Once your use reaches 47 A-hrs, you should recharge to keep the battery in good shape. A 2 Amp light fixture will also use 12 A- hrs in 6 hrs use a night, figure in water pump, furnace fan or cooling fans, more lights, and it's gone before you know it.
 A good first step would be to upgrade the battery bank. Next would be solar panels, if you camp in sunny locales.

Steve
2004 FL
2013 Honda Fit
 
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"" My house battery is a single 12 volt 95 amp. ""

Thom, that single 12V battery won't give you much TV time. I have a 89 LD which (when new) came with 2 Trojan T-105 6V batteries wired in series. This set-up provides 225 ampere hours. I am fairly certain your LD was so equipped also when new. It would provide greater reserve 12V power than the single 12V battery, or even 2 12V batteries wired in parallel.
Tom.