John, Next year, we plan to leave Hawaii headed across the Pacific. High on our list of priorities is getting two of the Xantrex battery chargers for dealing with European power. We are looking at the Xantrex XC5012 multi chemistry battery chargers. They handle input voltages from 100 to 260 VAC and can be configured to charge our AGM batteries. All of our appliances would then be run from battery power through the inverter with no adjustments. I'm still working through the details on how to run the air conditioning yet, but I have some good advice. Below is the URL for the Xantex (sorry I don't know how to do the little URL thing). http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/producte/ 10001/-1/10001/246849/377%20710/0/battery%20chargers/Primary%20Search/ mode%20matchallpartial/0/0?N=377%20710&Ne=0&Ntt=battery% 20chargers&Ntk=Primary%20Search&Ntx=mode% 20matchallpartial&Nao=0&Ns=0&keyword=battery% 20chargers&isLTokenURL=true&storeNum=null&subdeptNum=null&classNum=null Phil Eslinger Flat Earth N50 Ko Olina, Hi