Power Inverter, Indoor Car Shows

Indoor car shows require you to disconnect your battery, but allow you to hook-up to a AC to DC power inverter to obviously power your vehicles stereo, TVs, neons, etc during a show. I spoke with a tech at Grainger and he asked the obvious question of how many amps am I drawing from my equipment. I tried to do some digging around to calculate what kind of amperage I am drawing for my system. I'm running into trouble trying to find all the specs for my equipment and to find out what kind of inverter I need to purchase. I have a KX800.2 Kicker amp (120Amp fuse) a KX600.4 kicker amp (80amp fuse) and 22 Liteglow neon lights throughout the car, 7.5 Pioneer in-dash, 2 4" Boss headrest TVs, 60W strobe lights x 4, and Liteglow neon underbody kit. Can someone point me in the right direction? I don't mind buying a higher model, I just want to make sure its powerful enough to run the car during these shows, and of course be safe. Any help would be appreciated, I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge in this area. A simple link to a recommended inverter would be great.

Here is a link to a recent somebody asking that SAME question...It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

Apologize for the duplicate post. I did figure out I am drawing about 233 amps, which isn't as much as others. However, I am having trouble finding a decent inverter. I called Grainger and they don't have anything to handle that. Any suggestions??

If you are asking for an inverter, no, they wont. An inverter converts from DC to AC. You need to convert from AC to DC. Known as a "power supply", it'll be MUCH easier to find, and will be significantly less expensive. Tripp-Lite makes some very nice DC power supplies, regulated and filtered, so no noise. You'll need at least 4 (I'd recommend 5) of the PR60 units. This will give you 192A continuous, (or 240A with 5) and 240 peak (300A with 5). These can be parallelled with no problems at all, I've done it many times. I also think Grainger is a distributor of these items. Here is a yahoo search I did just right quick to get you some results for buying these toys... Good luck to ya!It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

You can also look into this companies gear, I have used all their controllers and power supplies very nice stuff. They have larger power supplies than listed, if you give them a call ask for Mitch Thompson he'll set you up.

I knew I had to go from AC to DC, I wasn't using the right terminaology. Your replies and time are very much appreciated!!!

I forgot to mention, I did ask the Grainger Tech for a AC/DC power supply. He said he didn't have anything that could handle the amps I am drawing. He didn't mention anything about running supplies parallel. I'm looking for a easy set-up, without lugging 5 of these power supplies around to these shows. So there's not a single DC power supply out there big enough to run my equipment?

try the link I posted I got my 150 amp power supply from them, I am bettin' they have a bigger one than that.

I won't say there ISN'T one, but if you find one, it's gonna be BIG (more like HUGE), HEAVY (as in about the weight of a CAR... OK, slight exaggeration, but still, REALLY heavy, I'd guess 120 pounds to start), and expensive. Smaller would probably be better, easier to move around, even if possibly a bit more expensive than one single 300A 12v supply. Also, one HUGE power supply will probably not be available in 120v supply voltage. Something that big will most likely be a 240v input. Not all venues are gonna have 240v 20A service to every stall.It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

haemphyst wrote: I won't say there ISN'T one, but if you find one, it's gonna be BIG (more like HUGE), HEAVY (as in about the weight of a CAR... OK, slight exaggeration, but still, REALLY heavy, I'd guess 120 pounds to start), and expensive. Smaller would probably be better, easier to move around, even if possibly a bit more expensive than one single 300A 12v supply. Also, one HUGE power supply will probably not be available in 120v supply voltage. Something that big will most likely be a 240v input. Not all venues are gonna have 240v 20A service to every stall.

That makes sense. I'm trying to explore my options and thats why I am trying to ask the right questions. Please don't take my questions as I am second guessing your suggestion. I will look around and see what I can find. Including the link Jeremy provided. I thank you guys again for your replies, I will post back and let you know how I made out.