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kerry33

30/7/2008 at 6:43pm
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Just wondering about car inverters for hairdryers/straighteners etc?! I do struggle without them and find cordless ones rubbish! We have a small inverter for phone chargers etc but that doesnt work with hairdryer etc. Hasd anyone bought one that does work??

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Go for a 12v hairdryer if you need one, Unless you have a large inverter it wont run anything with a heating elelment in it and then you'll need a large battery (two really)to run the inverter

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Sam Coleridge

30/7/2008 at 7:38pm
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I was on a bus once and the young woman sitting behind me dropped something on the floor under my seat and I instinctively reached for it to return it to her only to find out it was hot ....

Presumably that one would have been gas-powered ?

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Ouch! those things get REALLY hot!

Sam Coleridge

31/7/2008 at 12:25am
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Blimey - hair straighteners take 200 watts peak - a 110AH leisure battery - even assuming you have access to that much capacity is 1320 watt hours - so 6 whole hours of hair straightening versus 60 hours of 20 watt fluorescent lighting.

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Anything that produces a lot of heat like haidryers or straightners will need an inverter that is high wattage.

Best thing to do is look on the back of the packaging to see what wattage you need.

You can get some quite chunky inverters for all sorts of use. If I was to guess the one you need for a hairdryer would need to be 2000 watts. When they get this big they need to be hot wired to the car battery. Due to being quite specilalised they are not your common in halfords or the like, best bet is to go to a specialised car accessory shop. Can't suggest a brand as never used one.

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