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| 400 Watt Helps Make Fiddler Contest More EnjoyableI use my inverter in two ways:
The first use that I identified was for camping. We like to go to old time fiddlers contests and campouts and we set up a canopy that serves as home base while we are camping. Fiddle tune sessions often go long into the night and it is nice to have light. The old Coleman lantern works but it's noisy and way too bright. One year my son saw some decorative light strings in the 5 & 10 store as we were headed off to a campout. We bought them just because they looked great (some strings had watermelons, others had parakeets - can you say "Margaritaville"). We had no way to use them on that campout, but while we were there, some friends had the same idea only they had this neat little inverter that ran the lights off of their car battery. It worked well except that there were times when their car wouldn't start.
After we returned home from that campout, I searched the web for inverters, found Inverters R Us, and bought the Aims 400 watt inverter. I also got a deep cycle marine battery from Sears, and a small battery charger. Now I can light those lights, and even if my battery goes dead I can take it to the camp office or anywhere there is power and charge it back up. This scheme has served well for years. One time some fellow campers came over and ran their food processor from my inverter, then some other people needed to run their blender, and.....so on. Now many attendees at the fiddle contests have an inverter.
A second use that I didn't really plan on came to light (no pun intended) one time when we had a power failure in the middle of the winter. We have a woodstove, but it depends on a 110 V AC powered air circulation blower to heat effectively. Not much use during a power failure unless....you power it up with the inverter/battery system. I keep the battery charged on an automatic battery charger, so it's always ready to go.
R. Neithammer
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