Hi
I’m having nothing but a problem with inverter in my XF, use to be able to run 12v one out of the cig socket with out any problem, now I only get FAULT signal from inverter when plug in to 12v socket , after reading few post on here it sounds like the problem is the dropper that is installed or maybe the inverter is just gone bad, " I got it from Halfords" 
, I had 24V 300w skytronic one or something like that and was blowing fuses everytime you switched ON 
, not sure what to do know I just whant to watch a bit of telly when I’m parked up but don’t want to keep spending money on inverter every week, telly is 19" LCD which uses 30W thats what it says on sticker, do I get another from ebay seller or just go to truck shop and buy one of them■■? it looks like 24v 150w will be just fine for my usage, any advice ■■?
Test it in another truck or your car to rule out that the inverter is faulty
just plug in to my car on 12v and just shows fault, it looks like it had it, now which one do I replace with 24v or 12v?
Just spoken to some one from CDC and they recomend 600w at £97 for my telly 
it only use it 30w that what manufacture saying, I need to get one buy end of day saturday if i can help it.
malenki22:
Just spoken to some one from CDC and they recomend 600w at £97 for my telly it only use it 30w that what manufacture saying, I need to get one buy end of day saturday if i can help it.
They just want to sell you an expensive one.
If your telly only draws 30 watts peak then a 150 Watt inverter will be fine but I would go for the 24 Volt one. 150 watts / 24 volts = 6.25 amps and the Daf 24 volt socket is rated at 15 amps, well the one in mine is anyway. 150 watts / 12 volts = 12.5 amps and the 12 volt socket in a Daf is rated at 5 amps. You might get away with the 12 volt version if your telly does only draw 30 watts as that would mean 2.5 amps but if the inverter itself draws more than that at power up or you want to run something like a laptop drawing maybe 75 watts it probably won’t work. 24 Volt one will also be kinder to your batteries as it is drawing less current.
Thanks for that Coffeeholic, I will go for the 24v but 300w version or maybe 600w there is only £5 different in price from maplin and should run additional staff if needed, yes your right about the daf socket how they rated also the batteries gone down to low voltage on the 12v after 1.5H of use which I belive is down to the dropper, also found 15A hella plug from them so should keep me going unless is the wrong one.
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Well got my inverter 24v 300w and find the hard way no 24v socket on my daf all 12v socket when checked with multimeter, I did think that all Hellas sockets on daf was 24v, could this be down to someone change something with wires before? Or is just STD on dafs to have only 12v■■?
malenki22:
Well got my inverter 24v 300w and find the hard way no 24v socket on my daf all 12v socket when checked with multimeter, I did think that all Hellas sockets on daf was 24v, could this be down to someone change something with wires before? Or is just STD on dafs to have only 12v■■?
The Hella socket on my DAF XF 105 on a 59 plate is 24 volt, it is marked as such beside it where it says 24V/15 Amp, and I run my 24 volt inverter from it.
Really getting a 300 or a 600 is overkill and if you change truck it might not work if the next vehicle has a socket rated at say 10 amps. 150 watts is more than enough for TV’s, laptops, charging a phone and the like.
thats what I was thinking that the 24v and had daf on 08 plate and had 24v hella rated 15A, this on on 59 plate some one used marker pen on the sticker so I belive the driver who had it before must it change something to get 12v on hella socket, I just hope that he only run wires from that socket to cig socket and the 24v ones just hanging down somewhere if not will have to connect my inverter to fuse board which I’m not to keen on doing.