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Old 04-23-2006, 03:35 PM
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Do your chargers have DC inputs? If they do, forget the inverter. Just hook the chargers up to your car battery. Why bother converting DC (car battery) to AC (inverter) back to DC (power supply to run chargers)? I've seen people do it though....just plain silly.

As for the soldering iron, get a butane powered one from Radio Shack. It works good enough for motor changes, but if you hard wire your batteries, it would get old quick because they take a while to warm up, and you can't just leave it on because you'd go through butane. Then again, a refill bottle is only a buck or so.

An inverter for a good soldering iron would be OK.
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