Mike You can only fit so much water down a garden hose. What you are
doing here is trying to make a fire hose out of your garden hose. It
just can be done. Your cig lighter has 18 gauge wire to it if you are
lucky if not it may be even lighter than that. Wwhen yo try to run that
much current down the wire it gets hot which causes even more resistance
to the point of things wont work on that circut. Having two inverters
does you no good as you are still getting all that juice from the single
wire of the cig lighter plug. Try at least going direct to the battery
with your inverters.

dray
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Thanks Again
MSG#73

"Michael J. Cook" wrote:
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> I have a 3-plug box that splits the 12v receptacle from my vehicle into three.
> In 2 of the plugs I run 2 inverters, and the third plug runs the Kendrick heater
> control. The LX200 is plugged into one inverter and my laptop into the other
> inverter. I power on the LX200 first. When I turn on the laptop, the LX200
> ammeter flickers intermittently and then the scope shuts down, obviously because
> of insufficient current. I don't even get to power on the Kendrick controller.
> What am I doing wrong?

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