On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:00:29 GMT, "George" wrote:

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|"Dave Fawthrop" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:12:17 GMT, "George" wrote:
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| |
| |"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
| ...
| | Hi All
| |
| | Thinking of getting a 12/230 inverter for my new van. I know nothing
| |about
| | them however.
| |
| | All I really want to run from it is a 150w halogen floodlight.
| |
| | Am I right to assume a 150w inverter will run a 150w lamp or is there
|some
| | sort of power factor involved? Or maybe the 150w claimed for the
|inverter
| | is 'going downhill with a following wind' and not what you get in
| |practice?
| |
| |Buy a cheap petrol generator.
| |Aldi/Lidl will come around again or some will still be on sale from the
|last
| |batch?
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| Which will get you hated so any caravan site in the UK.
| Many sites have no noise after ???? or before ???? rules, which limit
| generator use drastically.
|

|A pointless excersise if there's (mains) facility on caravan site then,ain't
|it.

Big *if* many sites do not have hookups, over on uk.rec.caravanning this
is a regular question. Indeed I have written a FAQ on the subject.
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