Electric Mattress Pad - Electricity Help
We plan to do some cool weather camping this winter and went out and bought an electric mattress pad, but didn't think about electricity limitations. Now keep in mind and the reason I am posting, elec...
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We have two electric blankets in our setup. One king size is on the bed an the other one twin size is used by wife sitting around the wrap around seating watch HDTV. I order most all of my toys from AMAZON - two day delivery here with free shipping
The King Size has two heat zones an the twin has only one. They don't draw over 2amps from the on-board INVERTER setup we have. This relates to around 50WATTs at 12VDC. About the same as your HDTV monitor. My duty INVERTER shown in the earlier drawing is a PURE SINE WAVE 600WATT INVERTER. The electronic controller of most manf electric blankets DO NOT live well with the MSW TYPE Inverters. They go up in blue smoke as soon as you plug them in. I always use a PURE SINE WAVE Inverter as the price is not that much different now unlike the earlier ones. With the PURE SINE models you don't have to worry about what MAY go up in blue smoke using them. Any Electronics should be plugged into a PURE SINE MODEL Inverter.
Alot of folks however use the MSW models and works just fine but sooner or later someone will plug something in that will go up in blue smoke. My layout has two INVERTER powered 120VAC receptacles in two locations in my trailer setup so I don't have much control on what the family or friends in going to plug into one.
We lived in the Phoenix area back in the 70's but it was mostly Jeeps and Tent camping back in those days. My favorite close by get away was up the Apache Trail... I had a Jeep and trailer setup much like this photo. Love to go in small groups of friend on our Jeep trail drives. - Even down the dry SAlt River beds haha... The Sedona red rocks blew you away everytime you was there. Long trips up into the high rim canyons and areas around Flagstaff was great as well..
Photo from Google Search
Miss my Jeep days in the high country of north central Arizona.
Roy Ken
The King Size has two heat zones an the twin has only one. They don't draw over 2amps from the on-board INVERTER setup we have. This relates to around 50WATTs at 12VDC. About the same as your HDTV monitor. My duty INVERTER shown in the earlier drawing is a PURE SINE WAVE 600WATT INVERTER. The electronic controller of most manf electric blankets DO NOT live well with the MSW TYPE Inverters. They go up in blue smoke as soon as you plug them in. I always use a PURE SINE WAVE Inverter as the price is not that much different now unlike the earlier ones. With the PURE SINE models you don't have to worry about what MAY go up in blue smoke using them. Any Electronics should be plugged into a PURE SINE MODEL Inverter.
Alot of folks however use the MSW models and works just fine but sooner or later someone will plug something in that will go up in blue smoke. My layout has two INVERTER powered 120VAC receptacles in two locations in my trailer setup so I don't have much control on what the family or friends in going to plug into one.
We lived in the Phoenix area back in the 70's but it was mostly Jeeps and Tent camping back in those days. My favorite close by get away was up the Apache Trail... I had a Jeep and trailer setup much like this photo. Love to go in small groups of friend on our Jeep trail drives. - Even down the dry SAlt River beds haha... The Sedona red rocks blew you away everytime you was there. Long trips up into the high rim canyons and areas around Flagstaff was great as well..
Photo from Google Search
Miss my Jeep days in the high country of north central Arizona.
Roy Ken
