Fishbusters
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I rigged up an inverter that was in my parents motor home to my truck in order to power the laptop as well as perhaps charge several other devices that require 110V power to charge or even operate. My first use of it was our trip down to Fla. While there my nephew told me that I should not use it to power/charge things with rechargeable batteries in it as power inverters mess these things up. I asked him where he got his info as I was skeptical and he said while he was researching offsetting/powering his house in New Mexico using solar power he talked with people who had done it including a techno-geek (his term). The geek told him he had to keep minimal power incoming on a separate system from the house for recharging the laptop and all other things like drills and such because inverted power has the wrong wavelength and messes up rechargeable batteries. In any event I have not used the inverter since that trip but I would like to. I have been unable to come up with any negative feedback on the use of inverters and none regarding rechargeable batteries. Is this something to worry about or was it something specific to solar power or is it just something someone got into their mind and they are wrong? I do know a little about power and 110 can fluctuate from 105 to 120 (or something like that) also I understand European and Japanese power grids will not power American items w/o some sort of an adapter but beyond this I am really clueless.