Ken,
Yeah — 300 Watts will end up with her either never cruising with me or
grabbing the scissors and I’ll be married to a Lt. Ilia look-alike in no time.
(http://im.rediff.com/movies/2011/dec/22slid4.jpg)
I never run an inverter — or anything that will pull more than 5 amps
without the engine running or connected to shore power.
I just want to be sure I’m not going to have any issues by connecting
anything too big to my systems.
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log
On Mar 26, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Ken Heaton <kenhea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A 1875 watt Blow Drier is going to cause a 2000 watt inverter to draw a
> sustained 155 amps steadily off your batteries the entire time the blow drier
> is running. How much battery capacity do you have onboard?
>
> You'd need about 775 amp hours of battery bank to sustain this for any length
> of time. That's a lot. How long does it take to blow dry hair anyway?
>
> The little dinky 12 volt blow drier Bill linked to will still draw 30 amps
> but the result is only a 360 watt hair drier. She'll be trying to dry her
> hair all day with that.
>
> Ken H.
>
>
> On 26 March 2014 12:05, Edd Schillay <e...@schillay.com> wrote:
> Listers,
>
> As part of my ongoing battle for my wife not to cut her hair short, she
> would like to be able to use a hair dryer on board the boat. My current
> inverter is rated at 600 Watts AC, which is nowhere near enough to handle a
> hair dryer.
>
> Anyone know of any issues in changing my inverter to one that can
> handle 1600 to 2000 watts? I was thinking something like this (but waiting
> until after 2:00pm today when the price drops):
> http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1%7C328%7C2289962%7C2289972&id=1704363
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Edd
>
>
> Edd M. Schillay
> Starship Enterprise
> C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
> City Island, NY
> Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log
>
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