Ralph, I appreciate your opinion on the charger. I'm looking for a car charger now. It's been a few months now and I was wondering if you have had any bad experiences with your charger? (Killed a battery or the like.)I've had good success with the charger in alokbhargava's post above. My only criticism is that it is slower than using the plug-in charger - it takes about 90 minutes to charge from 20%.
Thanks!Pay attention to the car chargers. Some have a plug for the controller, some don't. I would still go with the inverter and use your stock charger, though. This one seems to work for most people.
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Thanks for the video. I learned something new, again.In my view, using an inverter and the regular wall plug charger is costly, inefficient and potentially damaging (tho' probably not) to the charger.
First, an inverter that supplies a well-formed 60 hz sine wave is going to cost several times what a car charger does. Sure there are cheap inverters out there, but they do either square wave or modified sine wave that can wreck havoc on modern electronics.
Second, all the car charger needs to do is transform the 12v DC to 17.X DC to charge the battery. When using an inverter it must 1) transform 12v DC to 110v AC, then your charger 2) transforms 110v AC to 17.X volt DC. These are two inefficient processes, to say nothing of involving multiple boxes and cables.
Third, chargers are fairly resilient devices, but feeding them low-quality, inverter-created AC power potentially can damage them. Again, probably not, but why do it in the first place?
Here is a very good video, done by a knowledgable guy, on the car charger available on Amazon:
I agree with some of what you say. However there are some things that I do not.In my view, using an inverter and the regular wall plug charger is costly, inefficient and potentially damaging (tho' probably not) to the charger.
First, an inverter that supplies a well-formed 60 hz sine wave is going to cost several times what a car charger does. Sure there are cheap inverters out there, but they do either square wave or modified sine wave that can wreck havoc on modern electronics.
Second, all the car charger needs to do is transform the 12v DC to 17.X DC to charge the battery. When using an inverter it must 1) transform 12v DC to 110v AC, then your charger 2) transforms 110v AC to 17.X volt DC. These are two inefficient processes, to say nothing of involving multiple boxes and cables.
Third, chargers are fairly resilient devices, but feeding them low-quality, inverter-created AC power potentially can damage them. Again, probably not, but why do it in the first place?
Here is a very good video, done by a knowledgable guy, on the car charger available on Amazon:
What kind of inverter are you using with the 100W Phantom charger? Watts and normal inverter, modified sine wave or Pure sine wave?But an inverter and use your existing charger.
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What kind of inverter are you using with the 100W Phantom charger? Watts and normal inverter, modified sine wave or Pure sine wave?