Hi Steve,
My setup is pretty simple. The only thing I need the inverter for is my
rotator, and charging my laptop battery. My inverter makes a bit of
noise on 6, but it's not terrible. The laptop power supply is much worse...
Anyway, my work around is this: I only charge the laptop when in motion
[I don't operate while driving]. And the inverter is only powered up
when turning the antennas. I added a simple power switch to the
inverter. When I need to turn the antennas I flip the switch to power
the inverter, turn the knob on the rotor control, and when the antennas
stop I flip the switch back to off. Simple, yet effective.
My inverter is an OLD radio shack 150 watt model. This powers my AR40
rotator with no problem.
My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1300 which is very quiet when running from
the internal battery. But the charger is a bit noisy.
Yes, I would love to have a nice generator. But, I often operate from
parks and other settings where excessive noise would be a problem. I
hear the Honda's are very quiet, but as someone else pointed out they
are also very expensive.
73
Dan
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k4gun@comcast.net wrote:
> I'm now in the market for an inverter for my rover station. I need to power
> a laptop and the rotator for the antennas. The inverter will be mounted next
> to the aux battery, inside a steel tool box in the bed of the truck. It is
> my hope that the steel box will make for a decent Faraday cage.
>
> My question is what kind of inverter do I need? Can I get by with one of the
> cheap 300 watt models? Do I need a "pure sine wave" model or would one of
> the modified wave models work? I'd appreciate any suggestions here.
>
> Steve
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