Hello, I have a dual battery set up, and I wanted to have a place to plug in my "household plug" to run my cordless drill battery charger while I am working on a job. Or even when my Yaesu HT needs to pop on charge for a little while. I have seen some of those cigarette lighter plugs to a standard outlet converters. Not sure if that is all I need? I ran a nice 6 gauge wire to the rear for my portable air compressor. Any suggestions how to make a nice set up?

 

Those lighter plugs are not the best as they can have high resistance connections which drops voltage and creates heat. Not sure if you want a permanent setup but if you do you have already done the bull work with that #6AWG wire to the rear for compressor. Tap off the same supply and wire over to a good inverter as you will most likely never run both at the same time so it is not necessary to run separate supplies. Good rule of thumb calculation is that a 120V piece of apparatus that uses say 3 amps will draw roughly 10-12 times as much through the other side at 12V so that would be roughly 30-36 Amps on the low voltage side.

 

After some searching, going with the Dewalt 1000 power inverter. Didnt want to pay for the increased cost for a more pure sine wave, wasn't worried about running my laptop, only my work tool batteries, maybe something while camping in my unknown future (as a luxury) lol. A little surprise at the overall size, now just need to find the perfect spot and make a little bracket to hold it there. THANKS 604X4!