Idling for 10hr reset

Yeah, but you have to be really careful with those things, because they normally only keep things inside them 20 degrees cooler than the outside air and it takes hours to get them down to that temp.

 

Got it all covered...Only time anything went bad was back in 95..

 

so you really know nothing about working and LIVING in a truck and when we need and use

I bet you don't have the things in your van I have in my truck.

MOST trucks stops have invertors from little 75w to big 3,000w

a 1,500 watt invertor will use 150 watts if that is all that is need and you sure as all he!! will not be running a refridger and a mirco on some LITTLE invertor

yes

as you don't know much if anything about trucks, it's hard to add batteries to a truck.
true "marine" is a class of battery and has NOTHING to do with if it's a deep cell or not just as just as RV is a class of battery and both are better than CAR batteries. and for the record both rv and marine do come in DEEP CELL. a dual purpose battery will list BOTH cca AND amp hr why because it is made to do both

FALSE many companies make and sell TRUE deep cell batteries..... and as you know so little about real semi trucks optima blue top con't be used in a Volvo without changing the battery hook up (wiring)

yes you want AGM and didn't you just say

your words then you said Duracell makes a DEEP CELL....?

 

They advertise 40 degrees cooler than ambient air, and I believe it if you keep it closed or keep it relatively full. I regularly had to turn mine off to keep things inside from freezing. Quickest way to cool things down is get it where the ac is blowing on the side that has the cold plate, the cold plate should get a good 70 below ambient and if that ambient air is coming off the ac it gets really cold really quickly.

 

Buddy I'm not going to get into a chest thumping argument because you think I have no clue about using battery power because "I'm not a trucker yet"..

You prove to everyone who knows better that you don't know what you are talking about when you said " a 1,500 watt invertor will use 150 watts if that is all that is need and you sure as all he!!"

You clearly do not have a clue as to have power inverters work if you think this is true. Do your self a favor and go watch some videos on power inverters and electrical draw. You are spreading incorrect information while tiring to down talk me because I'm not "trucker enough" for your standards..

 

mine are rated at 180 apm hr drain and a 950 cca with a 200 amp reserve X 4

 

if and when you do get out on the road you will understand just how little you know.

so somehow you think that a 1,500 watt invertor uses 1,500 watts all the time.....!! and BTW a 1,500 watt invertor CAN use UP TO 3,000 watts

you want to talk about spreading incorrect information. you said "only optima blue top" is a real deep cell then said Duracell makes a DEEP CELL so how can Duracell make a deep cell of only optime makes deep cell batteries

your not trucker enough by anyone's standards, your NOT a trucker at all..... YOUR WORDS "I'm not a trucker"

btw you do know that some sensitive electronics will only work on pure sine wave inverter's

 

No I did not say a 1500w inverter uses 1500w all the time. I'm also not going to argue with you about how much "trucker" I am. it has zero bearing on the subject of battery usage.

Every inverter has a power stand by mode which puts draw on a battery. The bigger the inverter the bigger that draw is and the draw doesn't disappear when something is running it just adds to it.

So lets say you have a 200w inverter that has a 6w standby draw. You start drawing 150w you are now drawing 156w.

Now lets say you have a 3000w inverter that has a 20w standby draw. You add a 150w draw you are now using 170w of power for the exact same 150w load.

There is a reason people who live off grid usually have different inverter for different power applications. It's all about efficiency and fine tuning your needs to max out the battery life if you intend to use a lot of power while the batteries are not being recharged, you have to fine tune things or get more battery capacity or less load..

A battery being in a truck, a RV, a fishing boat, a cabin in the woods is no difference. It's all about capacity, load and recharge rate..

 

Your numbers are wrong My 1500 watt invertor has a standby of Less than 0.6 amp and I have 2 of them in my truck. And a 150 watt invertor has a less than 0.5

My has sat for 10 days and the batteries have not dropped to 12.2 volts (the point the battery disconnect will trips)

 

I gave you a common basic math example. Every inverter will have it's own numbers, it's impossible to know what "every" inverter will draw.. you have to look at each ones stats. By your own numbers you just showed that yes the 150w will draw less than the 1500w..

Why is it you trying to make everything I say a pissing contest? Are you this uptight that new guys are coming into this industry and so ignorant that you think a 45 year old grown man doesn't have a bit of experience out side of "trucking" that might be useful to the OP? Are you here to help the OP or to get into #####ing matches?

I'm simply trying to make the OP aware that he needs to look at his inverter as a way to potentially lower his load/draw, but instead you have to try and make it a pissing match because I'm a "new guy" or maybe you are just a angry person, I have no clue..