Inverter Positioning

Brought my little Piccolo 7 years ago, attached a couple of brackets to it and pop riveted in the back of the ute at the moment. Great unit, never a moments trouble.

Too low down there if you are going to be doing any creeks...
Mine is up on the cargo barrier...

It needs airflow through/across it to cool - consider that when selecting a mounting position.

i'm trying to decide whether or not to buy an inverter. what do you guys run of them? do you only use them while driving or can they handle being on when the car isn't (ie. hooked to the second batt) it would mainly be used for charging batteries, what would be the difference between charging them from the inverter compared to the cig lighter?

Cheers

Daniel

mine is semi permanent sits on the floor in the back and when travelling i have a 6 gang power board plugged in runs laptop 3 chargers +video camera which can run off 240 while tarvelling and sometimes my electric toothbrush charger
steve

I have a 500W Pure Sine Wave inverter under the front passenger seat.

It has worked reliably including in 44 degree days when the car was in full sun without the air con on for quite a few hours.

It does get hot, but has a good heat dispersing design and a fan.

I have run large diameter cables from the second battery to it, but it is connected through a 175A Anderson plug for rapid disconnection/reconnection whenever I am fording anything that threatens to put the foot wells in water - to date, I've not had water in the cabin anyways. They're quite inexpensive - if I drowned it and it didn't work, I'd get a new one.

It is mounted off the carpet with spacers and has reasonable airflow.

I have a powerboard attached to the back of it facing the back seat passengers. That way, I don't have 240V cables hanging all over the joint, it is always accessible by the people who need it most. It just wouldn't site reasonably in the passenger footwell or roof, or anywhere else I could think of.

Ciao for now
Andrew.