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tony_lee
Explorer
Dec 10, 2015

Electric matress pad - issues with square wave inverters.

Can't stay in southern Baja forever and have to make the best of Christmas to New year in sunny Lancaster CA so need to prepare for a dramatic change of temperature. Betty insists all her troubles ...
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pnichols
Explorer II
Dec 11, 2015
Many of the posts above seem to be ignoring 12V heated mattress pads - an example of which I gave a link to in a post of mine earlier - also other posters above mentioned 12V heated mattress pads and their power consumption advantage over a 120V pad.

If one already owns a MSW inverter and a 120V heated mattress pad that won't play together ... then they have to decide whether to buy a PSW inverter, another 120V heated mattress pad that will work with their existing inverter, or a 12V heated mattress pad.

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