[Bronco Rob]

buy a small generator

 

[Bronco Rob]

you run a 1200 watt inverter off cigarrete plugs? Thats 100 amps at full capacity bro.

you mean "hun"

 

[Bronco Rob]

save yourself a ton of cash and buy your woman a FSB hat.

 

[Bronco Rob]

i still think buying her a FSB hat would save you a shittun of money

 

[Bronco Rob]

Any suggestions on what fuse amperage and wire guage to use when hardwiring? Does the length of the wire come into play?

you might want to post the information about the inverter you have. I think they come fused don't they? I know the higher end ones do.

 

[Bronco Rob]

Well, here's where my electrical ignorance gets displayed. Here's what I do know. It is a 750 watt inverter from vector. It has 2 or 3 fuses on the side. However, I still need to fuse it near the battery because I'm not going to have a hot wire running all the way through the engine compartment, through the firewall and under the carpet without some fusing.

From what i know, and i could be wrong:

750 watts means you have two outlets.

You probably have three thirty amp fuses. A thirty amp for each outlet and a thirty amp main.

Whatever the main fuse is, you're going to want to use a main fusible link that is no greater than the main fuse (30 amp). At that point you have two fusible links on the main DC inlet.

I don't know much about them, but that would be my educated guess.

I would switch my inverter, using a 30 amp Bosch Relay. I would run 6 gauge (or possibly 8 gauge 6 might be overkill) wire to the relay and through to the inverter. I wouldn't want the inverter on constantly. Therefore using the relay and the switch (toggle, whatever switch) to turn it on and off as i needed it.

You can use Ian's (stangmata) write up on how to use relays in the Tech write up section to wire it to a switch on your dashboard.

I have been using lamp cord up to this point, so I guess that's 12 gauge. Never had any trouble, but I've never put too big of a load on it either.

Please don't tell me things like this.