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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I'm old, I'm cranky. and when it gets COLD, I'll hammer that Biddeford an hour before I crawl between the sheets. TEN, twisted all the way up. WAR EMERGENCY POWER setting.
What you use ATOP the blanket makes all the difference in the world as to kWh usage. I use a FLANNEL sheet, the Biddeford, then a THINSULATE blanket. The "old way" in a fifty degree room, I'd have to keep the control on five or six all night to stay warm. Now with the protocol mentioned above the setting is between two and three. Would you believe ELEVEN TIMES LESS POWER consumed? And I'm warmer. Using TWELVE PERCENT of the power I did before makes all the difference in the world to me. Does anyone make a 12 volt king size electric blanket with twin controls and 10 power settings? Oh, I forgot. And 180 watts of afterburner to get a bed toasty pre-warmed on a chilly night?
What you use ATOP the blanket makes all the difference in the world as to kWh usage. I use a FLANNEL sheet, the Biddeford, then a THINSULATE blanket. The "old way" in a fifty degree room, I'd have to keep the control on five or six all night to stay warm. Now with the protocol mentioned above the setting is between two and three. Would you believe ELEVEN TIMES LESS POWER consumed? And I'm warmer. Using TWELVE PERCENT of the power I did before makes all the difference in the world to me. Does anyone make a 12 volt king size electric blanket with twin controls and 10 power settings? Oh, I forgot. And 180 watts of afterburner to get a bed toasty pre-warmed on a chilly night?
