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[night driver]

When you DO go out and try to get a bung wrench or two, PLEASE take your sense of Yuma wit ya.

The response from the first place you ask will explain why.

 

[Millwright]

1/2" bulkhead fitting, 10bux at Tractors.

Cut an 1-1/4" hole near the bottom of your barrel, fish it down through the bung with a heavy piece of wire.

Put a hose bibb in it.

 

[WOS]

Like this one?

2000 Watt Continuous/4000 Watt Peak Modified Sine Wave Power Inverter

Amazing deals on this Power Inverter 2000W Continuous 4000W Peak at Harbor Freight. Quality tools & low prices.

www.harborfreight.com

Price is 169.00

Anybody see anything wrong with this? Thinking about buying one myself.

Side note: Your car needs to be close to house to run appliances, and you will need gas for car.

I also think this would be the minimum size to get. Harbour Freight has some bigger ones, for bigger prices.

I picked up one of these 4-5 years ago for the case I lose my main AC solar source, or I need to have 120VAC while traveling/camping. My thoughts:

- the physical size is small enough to go in the car easily

- the 2000 watt capability seems a good range for what I might need to have while traveling (camping)

- the unit from Harbour Freight does seem to work as advertised

- Do note that this inverter produces a "modified sine wave" output. That is to say that the voltage output is not a smooth sinusoidal waveform, like is provided by your local power company. It's more of a like a square wave, but with a slower/faster rise/fall time on the wave form, While I have not seen any specific "problems" related to using a modified sine wave form that prevented it's use, do note that some devices do not like the modified sine wave form on their AC input. Stuff with electric motors (an electric drill or skill saw) should be ok. Devices that use the AC input waveform as part of their function could show problems, such as a clock motor, that won't keep accurate time, or a radio that has a buzz in the speaker. My computers did seem to run ok on it.

- I will say that I have not run any heavy loads, like the washing machine noted above, with this inverter so I can't speak to that part.

I hope this helps....

 

[CaryC]

I picked up one of these 4-5 years ago for the case I lose my main AC solar source, or I need to have 120VAC while traveling/camping. My thoughts:

- the physical size is small enough to go in the car easily

- the 2000 watt capability seems a good range for what I might need to have while traveling (camping)

- the unit from Harbour Freight does seem to work as advertised

- Do note that this inverter produces a "modified sine wave" output. That is to say that the voltage output is not a smooth sinusoidal waveform, like is provided by your local power company. It's more of a like a square wave, but with a slower/faster rise/fall time on the wave form, While I have not seen any specific "problems" related to using a modified sine wave form that prevented it's use, do note that some devices do not like the modified sine wave form on their AC input. Stuff with electric motors (an electric drill or skill saw) should be ok. Devices that use the AC input waveform as part of their function could show problems, such as a clock motor, that won't keep accurate time, or a radio that has a buzz in the speaker. My computers did seem to run ok on it.

- I will say that I have not run any heavy loads, like the washing machine noted above, with this inverter so I can't speak to that part.

I hope this helps....

Thanks.

I've got a couple of the super quite genies, but was thinking at those prices, I might get one, and could use the gas in the cars, instead of siphoning it out to use.

Back up, for back up.