I'd like to hear from anyone who is having success charging
the batteries for a cordless tool using an inverter in their car.

Especially if they are using one of the less expensive inverters
that does not produce a true sine wave.

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:16:30 -0400, "The Streets"
wrote:

I'd like to hear from anyone who is having success charging
the batteries for a cordless tool using an inverter in their car.

Especially if they are using one of the less expensive inverters
that does not produce a true sine wave.


I always wondered what would happen if a 12v tool battery was hooked
right to the car battery?????

The Streets wrote:
I'd like to hear from anyone who is having success charging
the batteries for a cordless tool using an inverter in their car.

Especially if they are using one of the less expensive inverters
that does not produce a true sine wave.

I have a charger that just plugs into any power point in the car. No
inverter needed. It came with my DeWalt tool set.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit

wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:16:30 -0400, "The Streets"
wrote:

I'd like to hear from anyone who is having success charging
the batteries for a cordless tool using an inverter in their car.

Especially if they are using one of the less expensive inverters
that does not produce a true sine wave.


I always wondered what would happen if a 12v tool battery was hooked
right to the car battery?????

LOL! If it's dead or near drained, lots and lots of heat and who knows what
else? Don't do it! Or at least wear protection when you do. Most likely
scenario for a mostly discharged battery is going to be a dead battery (not
the car, the other one). It won't hurt the car battery or system.

Pop`

The Streets wrote:
I'd like to hear from anyone who is having success charging
the batteries for a cordless tool using an inverter in their car.

Especially if they are using one of the less expensive inverters
that does not produce a true sine wave.

Fortunately, due to transformer designs, cordless tool batteries don't
really care what's applied to them as long as it's akin to the right
charging voltage. It's been a long time, but it worked fine here. No
problems. Never looked at the waveform but it was probably a round wave
rather than a sine wave; the inverter had lots of capacitors & just filtered
a square wave.

Pop`

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On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:16:30 -0400, "The Streets"
wrote:

I'd like to hear from anyone who is having success charging
the batteries for a cordless tool using an inverter in their car.

Especially if they are using one of the less expensive inverters
that does not produce a true sine wave.


I always wondered what would happen if a 12v tool battery was hooked
right to the car battery?????

Smoke? Fire? Exploding batteries?

Put the appropriate resistor or some other current limiting component
in series and it would charge them.

Bob