Thanks for the replies, everyone.
I need to check my proofreading skills; I hit the wrong key ><. I meant LESS than 2000 watts.
What I want to do is to put in a little inverter/charger. All I need to run for any length of time, is the flatscreen TV, which I am pretty sure is less than 80 watts and a DVD player. We just want to run the TV and DVD for 3 or 4 hours at night "quietly".
For coffee I just run the generator for a minute. we have 4 golfcart deep cells with a Kohler 7.5 genset.
The longest we will go without running the main engines is 36 hrs. I don't think battery power should be an issue.
All 4 batteries are mounted in the engine compartment, and are low and to the aft of the engines.
In order to keep the battery cable runs under about 10' I have to mount the inverter somewhere in the engine compartment. I need an inverter that is ignition protected.
Xantrex used to make one that was sealed? and Ignition protected. That would be cheapest/easiest solution, but I don't see that unit advertised anymore.
Or.... could I just run an correctly sized battery cable to the non engine compartment location where the battery charger is mounted (hi, dry and cool), and where it really should be mounted.
Oh, and did I mention, that I'm cheap.
Any Ideas?
Thanks, Rob