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Oh, you're right, he didn't say he had any batteries.

"my best friend has a windmill and solar panels on a battery bank with
inverters to run CF lights."  (OP's statement)

I take it that you don't regard a 'battery bank' as a set of batteries.

OK. I can live with that. The rest of the world mightn't.

Graham

On 07/04/12 8:38 AM, Pete S wrote:

> He didn't even say he had any batteries. If he has none, I wouldn't suggest an
> inverter at all.
>
> Pete Stanaitis
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> It sounds to me that the problem is more likely to be an in-adequate battery
>> bank.
>