12v Mattress heating pad woes
Last night was kinda chilly. An hour before climbing into bed I, plug my 'watts up' meter inline with my mattress heating pad, crank it up to 7, check out the amp draw, and see it is only half of n...
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X2 what MR WIZZARD says. I use PSW Inverter here to power up my 120VAC heating pads. Have one dual pad on the bed and the wife has a smaller version she like to have on her lap sitting around the cool trailer sometimes watching HDTV... No problems after 5 years of use so far...
When I first got my OFF-ROAD Trailer I hit the local truck stops and picked up around $200 of trucker 12VDC appliances... Came away with a couple of arms full of items haha.. The only thing that survived after one year was some handy 12VDC lights. I was flabbergasted the 12VDC coffee pot taking almost 7 hours to make a pot of coffee hehe... The 12VDC portable vacuum units lasted a few times of use and didn't do well either. Everything that was over 5AMPS DC burned up all my 12VDC cigarette light plugs after an hour or so of us... Everything except the clamp on lights and the coffee pot went to King George dump. I use the coffee pot to pour oil with...
my story and I'm sticking with it...
Roy Ken
When I first got my OFF-ROAD Trailer I hit the local truck stops and picked up around $200 of trucker 12VDC appliances... Came away with a couple of arms full of items haha.. The only thing that survived after one year was some handy 12VDC lights. I was flabbergasted the 12VDC coffee pot taking almost 7 hours to make a pot of coffee hehe... The 12VDC portable vacuum units lasted a few times of use and didn't do well either. Everything that was over 5AMPS DC burned up all my 12VDC cigarette light plugs after an hour or so of us... Everything except the clamp on lights and the coffee pot went to King George dump. I use the coffee pot to pour oil with...
my story and I'm sticking with it...
Roy Ken
