Electric Blanket with Inverter
I just picked up a 450 watt inverter and will be traveling out west and Walmart camping on the way out. Our truck camper has a single 27 group battery and curious if the battery and inverter is suffi...
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mena661 wrote:hugemoth wrote:Thanks for that info.
It's the SCRs (silicon controlled rectifiers) in the controller that are cooked by a modified sine wave inverter. Doesn't matter if it's digital or not, most electric blanket controllers use them.
Not to mention many newer electric blankets and heating pads have a built in electronic timer for "safety" which turns off your blanket or heating pad after so many hrs.
This is one item which I would have to agree with the fact that a PSW inverter is your best bet.
