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My wife has a breathing machine that we'd like to take camping. It's likely a primitive site, without AC.
It runs on AC or DC power, and the plate on it says AC 1.0A max, DC 3.0A max. I can get specific usage by plugging my inline AC meter into this if that'd help.
The manual, of course, says to use only the cable they provide - which is diagrammed as a normal cigarette-plug-to-barrel cable, but with thicker cylinders on each end reminiscent of the ones on many of my PC cables. The polarity is not marked.
My questions, having not tried to power a device like this in a field before -
1. Could this run off the Element's battery safely, or should I use a separate one? We'll be camping two nights.
2. We have a solar array that plugs into the cigarette lighter, presumably to top off (either) battery. Would that be useful, or a waste of time?
3. Short of bringing our 2kW home generator along, a sloshy spare can of gas, etc - or leaving the missus at home - is there a better way?
It runs on AC or DC power, and the plate on it says AC 1.0A max, DC 3.0A max. I can get specific usage by plugging my inline AC meter into this if that'd help.
The manual, of course, says to use only the cable they provide - which is diagrammed as a normal cigarette-plug-to-barrel cable, but with thicker cylinders on each end reminiscent of the ones on many of my PC cables. The polarity is not marked.
My questions, having not tried to power a device like this in a field before -
1. Could this run off the Element's battery safely, or should I use a separate one? We'll be camping two nights.
2. We have a solar array that plugs into the cigarette lighter, presumably to top off (either) battery. Would that be useful, or a waste of time?
3. Short of bringing our 2kW home generator along, a sloshy spare can of gas, etc - or leaving the missus at home - is there a better way?