12 volt electric blanket
I'm trying to locate a queen size 12 volt electric blanket but not having much luck. People talk about them but the closest I find are electric car blankets that are only 42x58. Thanks
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Jfet wrote:
Costco has a queen size electric mattress pad for about $60. It is 115VAC and comes with 2 digital controls. I have not measured the current draw but plan to put it on a kill-o-watt meter one night and see how much it consumes.
If it runs about 50% duty cycle and consumes 200 watts, then that would only be around one group 27 battery charge per night. With solar as cheap as it is, that should be rechargeable during the day assuming you have 500 to 1000 watts of panel.
(I would power it using an inverter which runs at 90% efficiency and the waste heat just warms the interior of the camper anyway.)
Wow, your $60 solution got really expensive when you added the 500-1000watts of s solar, even with solar as cheap as it is.
