12 volt hair dryer

[Boldly]

Hi we have always stayed on sites with ehu. We are now going to try without for 5 days.
We have 140 amps of lead battery and no solar. Can anyone advise of a decent 12 volt hair dryer and what do you think the chances are of lasting five days without flattening batteries. Only other things are lights (all led) and shower pump.thank you all in advance
Dennis

 

[pappajohn]

Don't waste you time and money, you'll never find one that actually dries hair.
Buy an inverter and use a 230v drier.
Anything producing heat isn't going to do it on 12v.
Look at it this way.....a feeble 12v heating element being cooled by cold/cool air being forced over it at speed by a fan.

 

[meanders]

12 v hair driers are worse than useless. You could use an inverter but it would flatten the battery in not many minutes and without solar to top it up you would end up without power. Search for 12v hair driers to see many, many prior discussions on the same issue.

Sorry, but along with toasters, electric kettles etc, realistically it is a non starter.

 

[Lenny HB]

Can anyone advise of a decent 12 volt hair dryer

No such thing they are total crap.

Without any solar and only 140ah no good for using an inverter.

Babyliss do a couple of gas hair stylers I think Braun also do one.
Cheapest hair drier is a towel, we have a gas styler and a small hair dryer we can run off the inverter but 90% of the time the boss uses a towel.

If not using a TV or heating you should be OK for battery life.

 

[Bognor Saint]

My wife says don't bother. 12v hairdryers useless and you might as well stick your head out of the window and drive down the road

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[Jimbohorlicks]

Don't bother .With no solar and only 140 amps of battery you have no way of charging them up.you will ruin them. Have you thought of getting a portable solar panel. You could look to use a flexible panel as a portable ,lighter and easier to store.

 

[Boldly]

Thanks for all your prompt replies. What I was thinking really. Guess Mrs boldly will just have to make do with a towel.
I have bought a kit to fit a split charge relay(actually my daughter bought it for Christmas). Was supposed to be a complete kit but it says to fit fuses to all batteries. Does anyone know what size and should there be one at each end? I apologise for this being somewhere else on here but I can't work out how to search for it.

 

[Lenny HB]

Thanks for all your prompt replies. What I was thinking really. Guess Mrs boldly will just have to make do with a towel.
I have bought a kit to fit a split charge relay(actually my daughter bought it for Christmas). Was supposed to be a complete kit but it says to fit fuses to all batteries. Does anyone know what size and should there be one at each end? I apologise for this being somewhere else on here but I can't work out how to search for it.

I would expect your van to already have one, would help if you gave details of the conversion.

 

[Boldly]

Sorry Lenny HB should have said is self build more camper than motorhome. Never been off site so not got round to things. Trying to rectify that now.

 

[Boldly]

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[Lenny HB]

I know you already have the split charge kit but have you considered fitting a B2B, it would give you a much higher charge rate.

 

[Boldly]

Have to be honest I thought those were only for smart alternators. So I haven't looked at them.

 

[Boldly]

Also they seem a tad expensive given we rarely(never before) stay off site.

 

[bridgedino]

You could by a portable power pack and have it charged up before you go on each trip, something like a Jackery, others are available. They can also be attatched to their own travel solar panel kits. Sounds ideal for your needs

 

[bridgedino]

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[Reallyretired]

In my current mh I only have a single leisure battery and no easy way to fit more.
I was also thinking on the lines of a power pack to provide mains service when not on ehu.
The least expensive that I have found with enough output for a small hairdryer is the Ecoflow Delta mini. Its a grand, which is a lot to pay to run a hairdryer, but can charge from ehu when available, 12v and direct from solar. It has its own mppt controller.
I havent bought yet as a bit hard to justify to myself at present.

 

[Orion]

Babyliss do a couple of gas hair stylers I think Braun also do one.
Cheapest hair drier is a towel, we have a gas styler and a small hair dryer we can run off the inverter but 90% of the time the boss uses a towel.

And if using those gas stylers (and other similarly powered appliances) don’t shell out on the exorbitantly priced branded gas cartridges before viewing this video:



I use them in my Thermacell mosquito repellers and a large butane refill can from the local £ shop goes a long, long way.

 

[bridgedino]

In my current mh I only have a single leisure battery and no easy way to fit more.
I was also thinking on the lines of a power pack to provide mains service when not on ehu.
The least expensive that I have found with enough output for a small hairdryer is the Ecoflow Delta mini. Its a grand, which is a lot to pay to run a hairdryer, but can charge from ehu when available, 12v and direct from solar. It has its own mppt controller.
I havent bought yet as a bit hard to justify to myself at present.

We’re also considering one, to run a hairdryer and charge our e bike batteries when away off grid for a few days.

 

[Lenny HB]

Was supposed to be a complete kit but it says to fit fuses to all batteries. Does anyone know what size and should there be one at each end?

OK back to the fuses, normally only fit a fuse at the starter battery. The fuse is there to protect the cables so should be fused accordingly .
Don't know what relay you have but to get a decent charge rate if the batteries are under 2m apart I would wire it with 16 mm sq cable if further apart use 25 mm sq & fuse with either 40 or 50 amp fuse.

 

[Boldly]

Thanks LennyHB the kit came with 16mm cable and the starter battery and the first leisure battery (65amp) are less than a metre apart the second leisure battery (85 amp) is a further metre away. The two leisure batteries are joined positive to positive and negative to negative but recently added and not tried in anger yet.

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