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Originally Posted by Jace817
I am looking to run my tv and satellite receiver off of battery when dry camping. I have a 175 watt plug in inverter, that is barely too small to run both. Occasionally it will get an over alarm.
What I am thinking about doing is getting a cig plug splitter and another 175 watt inverter (I like these small ones because they don't have a fan, just heat syncs). Does anyone know how many watts the cig plug is rated for?
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Are you talking about plugging the spitter into the oem 12v outlet and trying to run a 175W inverter out of each leg of the splitter. You realize that at the end of the day you are trying to pull 350w thru the same wiring that is designed to pull about 180w max by "fooling" it with a splitter. If it works it could very easily overheat the wiring and who knows what might happen.
Do it the right way and install a 300-600w pure signwave inverter mounted as close as possible to the battery and then run a 110 extension from the inverter to the entertainment center area. No fan noise because it is not sitting right next to your receiver and you are getting clean power.
Not a good idea to use the splitter and the cheap ones are just that, cheap.