I have a 410watt inverter I keep in the car and while my wife was at the hospital today and I was sitting in the car I figured I would use it to power my notebook computer and surf and play games.
All was well for about 2 minutes with the display on the inverter showing 70 watts as the notebook booted up and got into windows then it ramped up to the 240 watts the thing pulls at max power. No prob I would think and then the inverter cut off.
After checking it out I found the fuse in the cig adapter plug had blown. Which actually didn't surprise me when I noticed this 410watt inverter that can surge to 820 watts had an 8 amp 250V fuse in it.
I want to put a larger fuse in it but I'm not really sure what it should have. I figured someone on here would have a cig adapter setup and might have suggestions on the proper fuse size. There is no way 8 amps is right. I'm not sure what the fuse is for the cig lighter socket for the car size wise. Still looking.
All was well for about 2 minutes with the display on the inverter showing 70 watts as the notebook booted up and got into windows then it ramped up to the 240 watts the thing pulls at max power. No prob I would think and then the inverter cut off.
After checking it out I found the fuse in the cig adapter plug had blown. Which actually didn't surprise me when I noticed this 410watt inverter that can surge to 820 watts had an 8 amp 250V fuse in it.
I want to put a larger fuse in it but I'm not really sure what it should have. I figured someone on here would have a cig adapter setup and might have suggestions on the proper fuse size. There is no way 8 amps is right. I'm not sure what the fuse is for the cig lighter socket for the car size wise. Still looking.