avoid the inverter

Manuel bought a marine lead acid battery. All right! I was happy. Now he would be able to image anywhere.

But then he reported to me that it "did not deliver." The mount slewed slowly. And the battery "didn't hold a charge." Huh? I chatted with him to try to understand what he meant.

As I suspected, he had plugged his laptop into the integrated AC outlet. I said this is not a good approach. It would use the inverter. At first, he didn't realise that this outlet was connected to an inverter circuit; he thought an inverter could only exist outside the battery. I encouraged him to get the cigarette lighter power cord for his laptop. I think he had CLA plugs for all his other devices, the mount, the camera...

I wondered if the slew speed was a factor of temperature. I did not raise the issue.

When he said he didn't know how he could possibly connect more than one 12 volt device to the battery, I sent him a link to a 3-in-1 CLA adapter.