Can I use this for a hair dryer with it connected to the car battery and have it running?
68501
Jennifer,A 300 watt inverter is way too small for a hair dryer. What is the amp draw of your hair dryer.Joe
68502
Yes.After much research and experiments with it;I have discovered that the key is how much amps that your battery is rated as is the key to performance. A 12v,100 amps battery is good and connect a small solar panel to re-charge your battery.The instruction manual provided by the company was not properly written nor block diagrams drawn for the lay.
68503
Not sure. I used it for my cpap machine for almost 6 months when we were dry camping in AZ . I have used it to run my printer and my stereo. Your hair dryer may use a lot more watts than the inverter puts out. Hope this helps.
44713
yes it can.....its only supplys 6amps per battery......i keep mine plugged in while cleaning and radio use....
625218
Yes, I have this connected to a 12 volt car battery and it works great. Best practice to use a fuse.
1407033
I would not. It 'fried' a hair-dryer of mine and I don't think it's worth the risk. I've had other converters in the past that were considerably larger and more expensive with which I never had any problems.
794715
Honestly, I don't know. But I suggest you look at your hair dryer to see if there is information on it about voltage. If that doesn't work, trying asking an electrician.
1676031
Definitely not, this has only about 200W output where a hair dryes has 800-1000W. Hope this helps.
298827
Possibly. I have used mine to run a small portable car refrigerator cooler for a short time and it worked fine. R. Skiba
2195035
It will most likely will run through a "blower" switch on the console, but yes you could just hook it right up to a 12V battery if you are using it for another purpose.
1528835
Yes, from the law of conservation of energy (physics) it's clear that you can't get energy/power for nothing so if you're using this inverter it is drawing power from somewhere (your car battery). However, the car's battery is constantly re-charged when the engine is running so your battery shouldn't run out if you're driving while using the inverter. Also, how fast the battery drains depends on what you have plugged into the inverter. If you're just charging a phone, little power is used as compared to having a hair dryer plugged into it. So, long story short -- don't charge or run high-power devices for long periods of time with this (or any) inverter while your car is turned off because that will quickly drain your battery. If you're driving, you should be fine but your gas mileage will probably go down (conservation of energy again, your car has to get energy from somewhere to be able to recharge your battery -- it gets this energy from gasoline). Hope this helps, sorry for the in-depth info -- I'm an electrical engineer and haven't had a change to 'nerd out' yet today :-)
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I do not see any reason why not.... a car battery is a car battery - you are basically just applying trickle-charge voltage to it. But to be safe, I would, as Steven indicated, go the nocousa.com and ask them. I have one of these on our boat and it seems to work very well. We can leave it two to three weeks at a time and it cranks right up.
211289
I don't know about that. It runs on regular batteries, plus there's no place to attach to car battery. Why would you do that anyway?
1925261
You could, but remember it is only good for small devises i. e. electric razor, tooth brush. Do not try to plug in a curling iron or hair dryer. Hair dryers are 800 watts this transformer is capable of only 150 watts. When going to Europe you cannot use any heating device on their system from the USA. Cell phone and computer chargers will operate in Europe using just an adapter.
434841
I think it would work just fine for the amount of power it would draw. Although you stated that it is a 12 volt system so you could run it directly from a battery unless you wanted to use an AC to Dc adapter.
1996709
NO it will only run a 1200w Hair dryer on low. Does not work as advertised.
2260280
I have never tried that. I do not think it could start your car. Maybe slow charge your existing battery if needed.
1931274
If you have an AC outlet in your vehicle you should be able to do it. I would recommend having the vehicle running, so as not to drain your battery. It only operates on AC.
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I don't see why not. I haven't used mine for those reasons, however in days gone by I've used the converters to run my hair dryer (in the days when I had hair)!!!!! Perhaps someone else will have more recent experience. Good Luck