[mudfish]

Yep
Unless you had a converter set up!

 

[Big buff]

You have 12/24volt LEDs if they are currently hooked directly to a battery. If wanting to run your current light setup off of a genny, you need to purchase a power max 55 converter. Plug the converter into the genny, positive and negative out of converter to one 12volt battery, then positive and negative off battery to the lights. Hope this helps.

 

[garpwacker]

Yep
Unless you had a converter set up!

Actually a power "inverter" that takes 12vdc and converts it to 120vac , converters take 120vac and take it to 12vdc

 

[froghunter]

Gbollom

^^^^^^ contact this guy. He is super helpfull and answered all my dumb questions. He can hook you up with a powermax converter. I just installed mine in the boat today.

 

[VarmintSniper30]

Ok i will so does anyone know of a genny that has the 12v outlet that puts out enough power to run lights. Im wanting to get rid of the batterys

 

[carpmjh]

Yep
Unless you had a converter set up!

Inverter dc to ac

 

[carpmjh]

Powermax and iota are two of the main names in converters. You could have just one battery with a converter and genny.

 

[MarkinMissouri]

What is being said is that if you want to run your current lights you will need to keep at least one battery and purchase a converter. The converter plugs into gennie, battery plugs into converter, lights plug into battery. If you do not want even the one battery, you will need to sell your DC lights and purchase AC lights. Be warned though that once you go with AC lights you will need to run the gennie in order to run your lights. No silent running. I am not aware of any generators that have enough DC Amps to directly power your lights and if I remember correctly most of these "DC outlets" are designed to charge batteries and don't really provide "clean" power i.e. using the plug may decrease the life of your LED's.

My recommendation would be to purchase a converter, keep a battery and run the DC LED's that you have. That way you can run under genny power but still run for an hour or two silent if you want to.

 

[VarmintSniper30]

So is a 2000 watt genny big enough to run through one battery and lights are at full strength

 

[VarmintSniper30]

I guess my real question is whats the smallest genny i can use to run 6 to 8 50 watt leds with one battery

 

[carpmjh]

Are you planning on running a trolling motor also? If yes what size?

 

[Big buff]

So is a 2000 watt genny big enough to run through one battery and lights are at full strength

Yes. 2000watt genny would even be big enough to run a second converter and battery for troller if wanted.

 

[VarmintSniper30]

No troller

 

[Big buff]

If just running lights off genny then the power max 55 that is needed for your lights pulls around 750watts I think.

 

[carpmjh]

A1000 watt genny would work. A 2000 watt genny would allow you to run two converters for lights and a 24 volt troller if you wanted that option in the future.