River City Smokehouse
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Does anyone know if either pit can run off of 12 volts? In the past I had heard they could but am not for sure.
FEC 100 and Treager 075 question
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HoDeDo
Babbling Farker
Sure can. As a matter of fact if you have 400W inverter I think you can start them all at the same time and not trip a fault. I know I have run my two tailgators on a 12v setup.
River City Smokehouse
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Will one deep cycle marine battery run both pits for a 2 day contest you think?
River City Smokehouse
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Ok...I bought a 500 watt inverter and a deep cycle marine/rv battery. It fired up the traeger 075 like budda. Do you think it would run both pits for a two day cook? or is that asking a lot?
HoDeDo
Babbling Farker
Hmmm I never run both for a full two days.... Do you have time to try to run them for a cycle and see how it does? You could also snag one of those solar chargers from Sam's club - I bet that would be able to keep up if the battery wasnt enough...
Brewmaster
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I know how to find out the answer to that question.
fireman_pete
Full Fledged Farker
Like others said, yes you can run the FEC and Traegers off a 12v invertor.
I know that after the Traeger starts it only draws like 50 watts, not sure on the FEC100.
I have run my Traegers off 12v several times, just make sure you have a decent invertor that provides clean power.
Pete
I know that after the Traeger starts it only draws like 50 watts, not sure on the FEC100.
I have run my Traegers off 12v several times, just make sure you have a decent invertor that provides clean power.
Pete
HoDeDo
Babbling Farker
Yes, I believe the igniter uses 350W for 5min or less. Then the fan on the FEC uses less than 50w, I think. I'm sure someone with more brainpower than I have on a Sunday afternoon... could take the power rating for your battery, and come up with the theoretical output.... Or you could buy a 30pack and figure it out on your own
in depth testing.
River City Smokehouse
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So I guess you wouldn't want to fire both up at the same time then.
HoDeDo
Babbling Farker
Yea, start the eddy, then after it is rollin, start the traeger. Or test the overload capacity of that inverter
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n-2-que
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i run fec100 with inverter and marine deep cycle battery no problems
BBQnFool
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Pete, can you tell me what sized inverter, and I assume it is a pure sine wave inverter, you are using on your Traeger? I'm looking to make my small Traeger Jr. into a tailgater, but the guy at Traeger stated it requires a 400W inverter, which cost as much as my barbecue. I'm trying to find out if it's 400W max, and it needs to be like a 150W continuous. Really would be interested in what you're using.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Tom
