How To Run Christmas Lights Off A Car Battery

You connect a 12V battery to the inverter and then just plug your Christmas lights into the standard AC outlet on the inverter.

How to run christmas lights off a car battery. Plug your Christmas light strand into the ACDC inverter. Just connect it to the battery and connect the lights to the 110v inverter. I tried to connect a light directly to a car battery and got an unpleasant puff of smoke.

You need to add up the wattage of the strings to arrive at a figure that the inverter needs to power. You would have to alter the xmas tree lights as well. The lights run on 120V AC and draw 34A per strip about 40 watts and I want to use 5 strips.

Run the calculations yourself with specifications from the lamps and see how you get on. Attach the negative side of the LED light to the negative side and then bring the negative battery. I do know that I would need an inverter.

One day or time ok. Then measure the distance between where the lights are and where these will be. We would still need to know how much current the light will take.

98 089Feet 5 coupon applied at. A 12 V 80 Ah car battery. The first is to use a 12V battery and an inverter.

Thats why you need to limit the current --- you found out the hard way The easiest way to limit the current is with a dropping resistor. Leaving a battery to dangle will eventually cause connections to break. Each string of lights comes with its operating parameters.