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<blockquote data-quote="Dumb and Dumber" data-source="post: 915479" data-attributes="member: 13414"><p>From practical tests I've done, my inverters cuts out at about 50% of the capacity of my batteries. For example if I have a 63 amp battery, the inverter shuts off after I've used about 30 amps of it. </p><p>That is why I figured 2X 102 amp batteries @ 50% is 102A. Which is easily more than 75Amps needed over 3 hours. It does not make sense to me that 6 batteries could not pass 50 minutes. I am not saying it did not happen <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Just that it should not really happen.</p><p>At our camping spot, we ran at least three 6-watt led globes the whole night through. Most of the time the 30 watt led spotlight is also used to provide light where we are fishing. My father goes to sleep at around 10pm, with his CPAP machine working the whole night. Also he has a smallish fan that runs throughout the night. We only have one 102A battery doing all of this. I do not know how many watts is the CPAP machine though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dumb and Dumber, post: 915479, member: 13414"] From practical tests I've done, my inverters cuts out at about 50% of the capacity of my batteries. For example if I have a 63 amp battery, the inverter shuts off after I've used about 30 amps of it. That is why I figured 2X 102 amp batteries @ 50% is 102A. Which is easily more than 75Amps needed over 3 hours. It does not make sense to me that 6 batteries could not pass 50 minutes. I am not saying it did not happen :D Just that it should not really happen. At our camping spot, we ran at least three 6-watt led globes the whole night through. Most of the time the 30 watt led spotlight is also used to provide light where we are fishing. My father goes to sleep at around 10pm, with his CPAP machine working the whole night. Also he has a smallish fan that runs throughout the night. We only have one 102A battery doing all of this. I do not know how many watts is the CPAP machine though. [/QUOTE]
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