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Old 10-08-2024, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by FloridaGuy66 View Post
During the big NE USA power outage of 2003 I happened to have a 2500w inverter on hand that plugs into the cig lighter and we were pretty much fine for the 3 days of no power. Our fridge, TV, microwave, toaster oven. We had two vehicles at the time with enough gas to run on idle for probably several weeks.

We still keep a few inverters around in case anything happens down here.
Are you sure about those numbers?
2500W =~ 20A @ 110V =~ 200A @ 12V

I'm fairly confident the cigarette lighter is not connected through a 200A fuse!

But let's say the refrigerator only actually draws 3A. In that case you would need close to 30A @ 12V to get 3A @110V. Does the cigarette lighter have a 30A fuse?
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