Christmas lights in my trunk? How?

[mysleeper6]

OK, maybe a stupid question, and I'm actually asking about Halloween lights (they're purple!) for a "trunk or treat" event, but "Christmas lights" made more sense.

Anyway, what I am asking is: Is there a simple way to supply power to a couple of strings of incandescent (not LED) bulbs to the trunk of my car? Tapping off the battery with an inverter seems to make sense, but I have no experience with this, so any advice would be great.

Thanks!

 

[mysleeper6]

Bump because A) zero views and B) I need to know this by tomorrow.

 

[EDM6-zoom zoom]

Hook them up to your parking lights maybe? I don't know.

 

[spec2k5]

Get a DC to AC power inverter from walmart and plug them into your cigarette lighter. sounds like the easiest way to me.

 

[ScratchNSniff]

^^^What I would do...I have done this before to put a Smoke Machine in the car...

 

[mysleeper6]

Thanks! I didn't know if such a thing existed, but I was hoping it did (I said it was a stupid question ).

 

[mysleeper6]

^^^What I would do...I have done this before to put a Smoke Machine in the car...

Smoke machine, eh? I can see this project getting out of control...(rockon)

 

[tunersteve]

MS6 owners don't need a smoke machine, the exhaust provides that free of charge!

+1 on the power inverter idea, no sense in tapping a wire for a temporary thing.

 

[mglavina]

MS6 owners don't need a smoke machine, the exhaust provides that free of charge!

Smoking K04 FTW!!!!

 

[mysleeper6]

Just an update: the lights worked fine with a $30 150W inverter from Wal-Mart. I did decide to go with a smoke machine, but the one I had access to on short notice was a 1570W monster that we use to smoke up buildings (I'm a fire training officer). It puts out a non-toxic, non-irritating smoke (I've spent several eight hour days in it so thick that you can't see your hand in front of your face) but a couple of people still walked by coughing and acting pissed. No candy for them!

 

[mysleeper6]

Whoops! Can't edit from work, so I should mention that I tapped into house service for the smoke machine, which had I known was available would have saved me the $30 bucks for the inverter.

 

[tunersteve]

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[mglavina]

I agree with pics, I've never seen a trunk or treat style of event

 

[mysleeper6]

Tough crowd! I didn't take any pics, but I can do some after-the-fact pics of the smoke machine, although video would be better...I used to think trunk or treat events were stupid, but as the father of a 5 year old and an 8 year old, the concept is growing on me: no traffic, better visibility (except when some jackass hooks up an industrial strength smoke machine...), no knocking on strangers' doors, less walking, kids see more of their friends. Some of them take the church element a little too far (no witches, or demons, etc., no freaking Harry Potter for Pete's sake), but the one we go to is cool with it.