>fair guess at the steady state load would be around 150 amps at 12 volts.  
>
>People, I don't think this is gonna work .  If you started with a good deep
>discharge cycle marine battery, maybe 5 minutes before you sucked the battery
>inside out?  

A 75 Ah battery should then last 30 minutes, right? Although the voltage
drop would disrupt the inverter long before that. 

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