Battery use with inverter

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I have 2 of these hooked to a Tripp Lite 2k inverter/charger .
I had em for a little over 2 years with no problem. Except forgetting to plug it in when I got home.
Good Luck

Jarhead, not wanting to step up into the Tripplite yet. I've got a trickle charger I was planning on hooking up to it, but would you recommend hooking the 2 batteries up in parallel and then to the inverter? Seems like this should double the amp hours if I'm thinking correctly.
Thanks!

I use two marine batteries and a 750 watt inverter at every comp I do. I believe in having clean power every cook and this is my ticket. It runs the FEC100 and my PG500. I charge the batteries after I get home.

I do have a Honda generator and even if I need it for my air in the summer, I still use the inverter on my smokers.

The FEC pulls about 260 watts when the hot rod is on to start the fire and then around 20 watts when the smoker is running.

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Originally posted by Toolman:
Jarhead, not wanting to step up into the Tripplite yet. I've got a trickle charger I was planning on hooking up to it, but would you recommend hooking the 2 batteries up in parallel and then to the inverter? Seems like this should double the amp hours if I'm thinking correctly.
Thanks!

Yes and Yes.

one 27 will probably run you as long as you need... Check the amp hours on the batt and do a little math, but last time I checked my 2 battery system I could run 2 pits for something approaching 115 hours...

There are a few topics on this on the forum...

Setup My setup

Gunny, Cal and Nordy thanks for the info! Planning on using the Duralast 27 and will order the Tripplite once I get the time to make a holder to mount everything to. Good luck to everybody else competing this weekend!

Picked up the 27 today, had planned on getting two but somebody had a lower amp hour battery in the wrong place on the shelf and there inventory was off. Will use the new battery this weekend and see how it goes!

Toolman, I'm a little late on this, but was gonna let you know to make sure your new battery is fully charged. They don't usually come that way.

I used a 27 with a 425watt invertor this weekend at the Stillwater, OK competition and ran my FEC 100 and a BBQ Guru Digi Q on my Big Green Egg for 15 hours with no problem at all.

Gunny, the 27 worked fine with the 800 watt inverter. Ran the FEC for 14 hours along with a CFL light intermittently and ran perfectly. Cook was good with a 2nd place in Pork! Picking up another battery next week and will be ordering the Tripplite soon!

Thanks for all the advice!
Toolman

Sounds like you did a killer job.
Congrats on the walk.

Don't get hung up on getting a Tripplite. I bought one and went out just about a year later. I bought one thru Radio Shack and been running it for 3 years now.

Butcher, are you using a Tripp Lite or a different brand inverter? Thanks for the great Pork injection, it definitely helped on the Pork call last weekend!

Dave has a nice setup with an inverter and a separate battery charger both hooked to his batteries. The way I understand it he basically always runs off the inverter and the batteries are being continuously trickle charged.

Same net situation as the tripp lite but you dont rely on the switch if site power goes out.

You dont have to charge all the time as an fec or two will run for days on a single charge of a size 27 deep cycle battery. A couple of times I forgot to plug in my triplite at a contest and I never noticed I wasnt using site power... After a full contest running 2FECs and a PG1000 on batteries only, my batteries still read above 90%.

The one from Radio Shack I use is a Whistler Pro 1200. As Nordy said I use a battery charger set up.

Nordy and Dave, when using the two batteries in parallel, do you hook the charger and the inverter up on the same posts using Gunny's drawing as a base plan?

yes

Thanks, Nordy! Planning on using that setup at the end of the month at our next comp to power the FEC and a Traeger.
Thanks to all for the advice!

I put the "+" on battery A and the "-" on battery B. By crossing the currant you will get a full charge.

Butcher, are you hooking the charger up on one set of opposing terminals and the inverter on the other set while both batteries are hooked up in parallel? Want to make sure on what your saying about crossing the current and dont't blow a board or anything else.
Thanks in advance!

That is for the charger only. For the inverter I hook it up on one battery.