trader_4 wrote:
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:03:19 PM UTC-4, DerbyDad03 wrote:

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According to the manual, you need 7 gauge wire to go 7 ft. That of course
is to support the full 1000W cont, 2000W peak. So, if you're looking for
anywhere near that, then you're not going to get it out of the aux outlet.
If you're looking to just run small loads like the current one, then you
could certainly get by with smaller wire. But you'd have to change the
fusing. It says it's fused for 120A, 40A x 3. If you can refuse it to
a lower value, then you could use say 10g, which is more manageable, but
it would reduce your max 120V power accordingly.

The other question is what can that aux outlet support? 10A? 15A?
If that's where you want to hook it up, then you're going to be limited
to 120W - 180W input power, maybe 20% less output.

Can you try hooking it up temporarily to the battery, maybe with some
jumper cables, etc?

The aux outlet uses a 15A fuse.

I'll try jumper cables this weekend just to see how it works. I doubt that
I'm keeping the unit.