I am getting a 1000 watt inverter to run the shop-vac on the boat. It overheats my 400 watt unit after about 2 minutes. We have a small "travel" hair dryer that is 1000 watts that should work. If you have a 120+ amp alternator you can run the engine and keep up with it. Don't forget Peukert's formula - 100 amps for 10 minutes is not the same as 10 amp for 100 minutes. The higher you go the more the battery gets drained. (http://www.smartgauge.co.uk/peukert_depth.html) Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Edd Schillay Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:12 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Inverters 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<http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/> On Mar 26, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Ken Heaton <kenhea...@gmail.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/> _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com<http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/> CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com>
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