Holiday plans?

Morgans wrote:
My son's Sony Vio imust be a big power hog. 400
watt inverter will not keep up, if it is running anything
demanding.

Look on the Sony power supply that is on the cord and see what it is
rated for... Mine looks to have a maximum rating of 1.3A at 110VAC...
It probably doesn't need that much unless I had the two PCMCIA slots
filled with two power hungry cards in addition to using a couple of
power hungry USB powered devices...

I usually get at least 5 or 6 years out of a gel cell battery.

I always figure 2 years for a lead acid battery... If I get more, I
feel that I'm lucky...

I do agree that the homemade version is more convenient.
I was commenting that the amp hours for the buck, and
the added items make it a good bargain.

Don't get two impressed with the air compressor though... Probably good
enough for airing up the small tires that most of us have on our
aircraft, but not so good for car tires... They usually just don't have
the cu-ft per minute to make them useful... There's a similar unit that
I've seen that uses a boat deep cycle battery in a large plastic
enclosure with wheels and a handle like you might see on rolling
luggage... As you can probably guess, it's a bit heavy to be picking up
and putting over the seats into the rear foot area of the cockpit...