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Old 05-23-2005, 06:44 PM   #3 (permalink)
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i might mention, for the purpose of safety, make sure and use a good noise filter on these machines, as a generator usually puts out "noisy" power, and can damage equiptment.



personally, i would do this entirely differently, with a second alternator under the hood of the van, (assuming it's in a vehicle... if not, then a generator is definately easier.) and an array of 4 car batteries in 12volt parallel, and then run a nice huge inverter.

the fans could run directly on the 12 volt, and if you find a good LCD monitor, some of them run on 12vdc.

you can also find power supplies for desktop computers that will run on 12 volt as well.

that's more how i would do it, with only the printers running on inverters, and the rest of the setup running on 12 volt.

or, you could avoid any question, and just get a 3000 watt generator, i am sure that 3000 watts would handle that load.
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