- Is there a way to use an Ecocharge and an inverter to provide AC?
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Yes you can. First you'll need to find the pin out to EcoCharge battery connector, meaning which pin is positve and which pin is negitave. A cheap multi-meter can act as your tool. Even though this is a DC circuit it really doesn't matter what the polarity is but it is good practice. Grounding is not much of a concern; but if there is one, you might want to also note it. Typically, the negative is also ground in a DC circuit but EcoCharge could be isolating it for some unknown reason. I'm assuming that the EcoCharge battery you are attempting to use provides 12VDC, since most of the inverters I've seen require 12VDC to power the inverter. Ok, so you've mapped out the pins and you are now ready to create the connection from the EcoCharge to the inverter. I would cut off the car cigarette-lighter connector of the inverter (near the connector) and replace it with the opposite sex connector of the Ecochage battery. Note that the center of a car cigarette-lighter connector is positive and the outside is negative so you might also want to mark the leads going into the cigarette-lighter connector. If there was a ground on the EcoCharge battery connector, and you really want to use it and if the chassis of the inverter is metal, attach it to the chassis of the inverter. The metal of the chassis should be ground. This would probably require a bit of wire on your part. 24 AWG to 20 AWG would be sufficient. Normally, the inverter should have mounting holes for you to mount the inverter in a car. Here you can use hardware to fix a ground using Faston Crimps to the inverter. Or if you don’t want to use a ground just terminate the ground pin to the negative pin of inverter inside of your new connector you’ll be adding. Once you have the connections made, power the inverter up and you should have AC power at the outlet that you’ll be using to plug in an AC device.
Not knowing the power requirements of (1) the inverter (2) the devices you are planning on powering and (3) the battery rating of the EcoCharge. I can not tell how long of a battery life you’ll have. Although I do know this is a very inefficient way to power
any device.
-Good Luck and I hope this helped…