[sanddrag]

Be careful with inverters. Most of them are not true sine wave, and can kill certain types of electronics with switching power supplies, like laptops. If you do use an inverter, I recommend spending a little more to get a true sine wave one. Also, please make sure the DC side of your system is well insulated, fused, and safe.

On the note of power, in Long Beach, I noticed two pits were shared between one 20 Amp circuit. If I recall, we used to get dedicated 20 Amp circuits to each pit, but not this year. I'm glad our neighbors did not have any power tools, or we would have tripped it. Our pit can come pretty close to pulling 20 Amps between 12 batteries charging, two 150W halogen lights, 9 computer monitors, 3 computers, a vacuum, and a copier.