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Date:         Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:24:35 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Quality Inverters
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <4677FE1B.2050705@gmail.com>
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Just to chime in on a quality inverter--not!

I bought a coleman 300W at Harbor Freight, thinking it would be better than one of their Chicago Electric brands or whatever. It did its job great for several years, while it lasted. A few months back I was sitting outside the westy while it was charging the iPod. I was in a nylon seat camp chair. I slide forward to see if it was actually plugged in, and the slide out of the seat and then touching the inverter caused a small spark... and that was it. The inverter had generated its last modified sine wave.

Pretty bad when your inverter can't take a spark to the case!

Jim

> > -- > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano > KG6RCR >


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