[RE-wrenches] 12V loads

[Dan Fink]

Good point Ray. I work on lots of low budget micro remote systems
too.....decent ATC fuse blocks are avaiIable (though I avoid Autozone etc)
and you can mount 'em in a gray metal box to look code-ish Have done marine
disco (big red switch) and class t fuse in some tiny systems for inverter
-- the Morningstar Suresine inverter is a 300w beaut for many such
applications. The real b***h for the tiny stuff here has been battery
chargers for small electronics, they cost outrageous prices for a 12VDC
charger for many gadgets. Easier to add the small inverter at some point,
and then maybe just go all AC in the future, as the4 120 vac chargers
usually are included with the gear. Somewhere I have notes from a worst
case scenario job I did on this a few years back.... The special chargers
added up to 3 times the cost of the inverter. They had a bunch of portable
radios for a fishing lodge.
Dan Fink

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:12 PM, R Ray Walters <ray at solarray.com> wrote:

> The problem with many of the suggestions, is that these Micro 12 v systems
> generally have budgets under $1000 parts.  20% of the budget allocated to
> breakers and discos isn't reasonable, same with a Trimetric.
> The ATC fuses are used for literally billions of 12 v circuits that all of
> you use every day.  (in your cars)
> If the budget has that much in it for fusing, then I'd be pushing for an
> inverter, as the customer will be much more satisfied with the appliances
> available and the over all versatility of the system.
> These days, economics is the only real advantage of DC only systems.  Most
> of my DC only systems ended up adding at least a cheap inverter later,
> might as well do it right the first time.
>
>
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