Craig,
could you give me the details on battery/inverter setup for fec-100 mine will probalbly be a good distance from power.
Thanks in Advance
dc
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dc
Do a search in the FE forums for "inverter" and you'll find several posts, threads some with photos.
Do a search in the FE forums for "inverter" and you'll find several posts, threads some with photos.
I can help you with this also since I am a part of Craig's team. We picked up a deep cycle marine battery from Sam's. The Inverter I picked up Lowe's. Here is a link to it on Lowe's site:
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&pro...y=15&lpage=none&bc=c
You may have to copy this and paste it into your address box on your browser for it to open it.
You will also need a battery charger of course to recharge it after you use it. I was told by a generator client of mine to use a combination regular battery charger that also has a float cycle in it. This allows the battery to be fully charged and then auotmatically switched over to a float mode where it maintains the charge until you disconnect the charger.
BTW, it has been talked on here before that you do not want to go over a 400 watt inverter. The FEC does not seem to work well with higher wattage models. We used our setup at the Tryon NC cookoff and it worked beautifully. We ran one of the cookers for almost 20 hours with no problems. Not that the electric was a problem at Tryon, but why take any chances.
John
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&pro...y=15&lpage=none&bc=c
You may have to copy this and paste it into your address box on your browser for it to open it.
You will also need a battery charger of course to recharge it after you use it. I was told by a generator client of mine to use a combination regular battery charger that also has a float cycle in it. This allows the battery to be fully charged and then auotmatically switched over to a float mode where it maintains the charge until you disconnect the charger.
BTW, it has been talked on here before that you do not want to go over a 400 watt inverter. The FEC does not seem to work well with higher wattage models. We used our setup at the Tryon NC cookoff and it worked beautifully. We ran one of the cookers for almost 20 hours with no problems. Not that the electric was a problem at Tryon, but why take any chances.
John
Thanks
Im going to like it here!
dc
Im going to like it here!
dc
Well looks like John beat me to it. Yeah we did go with the smaller inverter and a deep cycle battery and I bought the large battery charger at sam's because I also have to charge the batteries on a fire truck. You do not need a big charger for that battery. I was also looking at a solar trickle charge I saw at the battery store this week. I think this would work great on top of the smoker. I will have to try it and let you know.
Craig
Craig
That's the exact invert I've used all this year. Because I leave the trailer outside in a lot I haven't "installed" it, otherwise I would set up the batteries wired to a inverter and a battery charger like a lot of the guys.
Got the marine cycle batteries at Sam's, the biggest they have, about $60 a piece. I start one on Friday night about 6 and it runs easily through the last turn in.
There are a lot of thoughts about which inverters and some guys around who are more electrically minded who can give the exact specs.
For what it's worth. When I run those same two smokers on supplied power, my smoke setting gets about 30 to 40 degrees higher than when I run it on the intervert.
The FE DOES like specific power and the power at contests is not always very clean.
Smokin'
Got the marine cycle batteries at Sam's, the biggest they have, about $60 a piece. I start one on Friday night about 6 and it runs easily through the last turn in.
There are a lot of thoughts about which inverters and some guys around who are more electrically minded who can give the exact specs.
For what it's worth. When I run those same two smokers on supplied power, my smoke setting gets about 30 to 40 degrees higher than when I run it on the intervert.
The FE DOES like specific power and the power at contests is not always very clean.
Smokin'