For those looking at inverters, I recommend looking at whether you should get a pure sine wave inverter. They are more expensive and bulkier, but give cleaner power. Some electronics very much do not like the modified sine wave inverters that are a bit cheaper. Most of the time, it does not matter at all, but sometimes it very much does.
It seems you don't use powerpoles near as much as you could to make life easier. Powerpole on the charger eliminates some possible errors. Powerpole on your truck and your power box mean the charger just plugs in. When you need the clamps, you of course have a powerpole on them. Then you can use the clamps both to charge a battery or to take power from a battery. How many cig lighter adapters do you use at one time? I rarely use one, so I have a cig lighter to powerpole. I also have a cig outlet to powerpole. I don't have a powerpole to binding posts, but that would be easy enough. Instead I do have a few sets of powerpoles to just bare solid wire, and a selection of Wago connectors that I can connect bare wire to the powerpoles. Basically everything I get is tested then soon converted to powerpole. For example, I recently acquired a Milwaukee M18 battery charger that plugs into a cig lighter outlet. It's open on my bench. I'm going to replace the cig plug with a powerpole, and add a second powerpole in parallel to the battery terminals. No more dangly cord, and I can use it for its original purpose with any powerpole equipped source, plus I can use it to take power from the attached battery, plus I can use it to charge the M18 battery in a small power box without taking it out of the box and putting the battery onto the charger. I do use SB50 for things that might need more than 30amps continuous and for my normal 20amp and larger batteries and chargers. I use SB120 as my normal high-amperage connection. And I have made various adapters to go between those two and also to powerpoles. (I cannot believe Rigrunner and etc don't sell a powerpole distribution block that accepts an SB50...)
Thank you for the series!
For those looking at inverters, I recommend looking at whether you should get a pure sine wave inverter. They are more expensive and bulkier, but give cleaner power. Some electronics very much do not like the modified sine wave inverters that are a bit cheaper. Most of the time, it does not matter at all, but sometimes it very much does.
It seems you don't use powerpoles near as much as you could to make life easier.
Powerpole on the charger eliminates some possible errors. Powerpole on your truck and your power box mean the charger just plugs in. When you need the clamps, you of course have a powerpole on them. Then you can use the clamps both to charge a battery or to take power from a battery.
How many cig lighter adapters do you use at one time? I rarely use one, so I have a cig lighter to powerpole. I also have a cig outlet to powerpole. I don't have a powerpole to binding posts, but that would be easy enough. Instead I do have a few sets of powerpoles to just bare solid wire, and a selection of Wago connectors that I can connect bare wire to the powerpoles.
Basically everything I get is tested then soon converted to powerpole. For example, I recently acquired a Milwaukee M18 battery charger that plugs into a cig lighter outlet. It's open on my bench. I'm going to replace the cig plug with a powerpole, and add a second powerpole in parallel to the battery terminals. No more dangly cord, and I can use it for its original purpose with any powerpole equipped source, plus I can use it to take power from the attached battery, plus I can use it to charge the M18 battery in a small power box without taking it out of the box and putting the battery onto the charger.
I do use SB50 for things that might need more than 30amps continuous and for my normal 20amp and larger batteries and chargers. I use SB120 as my normal high-amperage connection. And I have made various adapters to go between those two and also to powerpoles. (I cannot believe Rigrunner and etc don't sell a powerpole distribution block that accepts an SB50...)