[Jon Stratis]

The only thing i would caution Mark - if you're hooking the inverter up through something like this (which provides a 12V car power socket to hook up to the input to the inverter), having an in-line fuse as shown at the beginning of the thread is a good idea. I doubt anyone's worried too much about the safety risk the inverter presents (as every inverter I've seen includes a fuse), but if the inverter isn't present and the cable is plugged in, the power socket on the end is wide open to being shorted. In cars, these sockets are protected by their own inline fuses, and the same should happen here.

In our case, we had taken an inverter, snipped the power cable, and hooked it up straight to the Anderson connector. In this situation, the on-board fuse for the inverter provides sufficient protection against shorts, as there are no removable intermediate connectors prior to that fuse.