My Admiral's hair dryer is 1875 watts on high power setting, so it would draw over 15 amps AC, and 170 amps DC to power the inverter. That needs like size 0 battery cables from the battery to the inverter?
I just looked at the things I customarily run with my inverter. PC charger = 1.5 amps. Cell phone charger = .5 amps. Tablet charger = .3 amps. Portable AC fans (one of them is in the back room waiting to go back to the boat) = .5 amps each. The total current draw can add up pretty quickly. And as I said in an earlier post, providing 8 amps of AC would exhaust my 4 battery 460 AH house bank in less than 2 1/2 hours. My point is: figure out what you want to power with it and then chose your inverter and battery bank size accordingly. Rick Brass -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Della Barba, Joe Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:33 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Wiring an inverter When I used to be in that business we divided the AC panel into "inverter" and "non-inverter" sections to keep things like water heaters and battery chargers from running from the inverter. And no - you can't use a battery charger and an inverter to make a perpetual motion machine. Prime reason for inverter purchases back in the day used to be for hair dryers and blenders. Everyone wanted battery powered air conditioning, but few boats have the room for enough batteries to support it. Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
