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Personduffs54
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Please can you help, I can't find the post anywhere but i'm sure I saw someone else talking about these so can someone tell me if any of these will work with our Electric pump.

battery

Our battery is in the back of the estate car which means we have to get loads of stuff out before we can pump up our airbeam.

this is our pump

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PersonBernie47
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Why not just fit a cigarette lighter plug to your pump and plug it into one of the sockets in the car?

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Cannot find the power draw figures anywhere.

How many watts or amps does the unit use under load?

That will dictate the size of battery you need.


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Quote: Originally posted by Bernie47 on 30/5/2017
Why not just fit a cigarette lighter plug to your pump and plug it into one of the sockets in the car?


Sadly not powerful enough, has to come straight off of battery via the leads, but thank you

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Quote: Originally posted by Grampian91 on 31/5/2017
Cannot find the power draw figures anywhere.

How many watts or amps does the unit use under load?

That will dictate the size of battery you need.




I don't know sorry, its a two stage pump, the last stage the pump is like a compresser.

Thanks for trying, just found this on an american site.

This pump can be used with a car battery, or with portable 12V 7Ah batteries that are sold on EBay along with wall charger. Optional 12V 7Ah battery fits perfectly into pump's carry bag zippered pouch.

Sealed 12V 7Ah Lead Acid Batteries and Wall Chargers are widely available on Internet


and this is the link they give

So i think they might be ok, just need someone who knows to give thumbs up.

cheers

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The first battery on the Screwfix link is the same rating as the one in your link above so it will do the job.

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Quote: Originally posted by steel on 31/5/2017
The first battery on the Screwfix link is the same rating as the one in your link above so it will do the job.


Wow thank you lots steel, big relief

All ordered phew x

Post last edited on 01/06/2017 10:56:17

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Quote: Originally posted by steel on 31/5/2017
The first battery on the Screwfix link is the same rating as the one in your link above so it will do the job.


Absolutely big thank you, bought the one you suggested and have used it on holiday and it saved us unpacking the car to set up plus we can now pitch where we like and not have to leave room for the car.

Fabby

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Quote: Originally posted by duffs54 on 31/5/2017
Quote: Originally posted by Bernie47 on 30/5/2017
Why not just fit a cigarette lighter plug to your pump and plug it into one of the sockets in the car?


Sadly not powerful enough, has to come straight off of battery via the leads, but thank you


I don't understand this. Your car cigarette socket is rated at 10amp but the battery you link to is only 7ah.

I'm no electrician but can't work out why you can't run that from your car socket

I'm asking because I'm actually trying to go the opposite way lol - I have the Kampa Gale pump which runs from the car cigarette socket and is great - but there may be an occasion where I have to pitch in a way where I can't get the car to the side of the tent which has the valves on. So - I need either a mahoosively long extension lead or have been considering a leisure battery with a cigar lighter socket to crocodile clips adapter. The Gale is 9.1 amps so I'm assuming I'd need a battery with preferably 10ah?

Or am I misunderstanding? DC voltages/amperages are more confusing to me than AC ones lol!

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You could get a rechargeable Campingaz pump. Also works off 12v and mains. Around £40. It inflates our full-height airbed in under 5 mins.

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Quote: Originally posted by HighSlayer on 19/6/2018
Quote: Originally posted by duffs54 on 31/5/2017
Quote: Originally posted by Bernie47 on 30/5/2017
Why not just fit a cigarette lighter plug to your pump and plug it into one of the sockets in the car?


Sadly not powerful enough, has to come straight off of battery via the leads, but thank you


I don't understand this. Your car cigarette socket is rated at 10amp but the battery you link to is only 7ah.

I'm no electrician but can't work out why you can't run that from your car socket

I'm asking because I'm actually trying to go the opposite way lol - I have the Kampa Gale pump which runs from the car cigarette socket and is great - but there may be an occasion where I have to pitch in a way where I can't get the car to the side of the tent which has the valves on. So - I need either a mahoosively long extension lead or have been considering a leisure battery with a cigar lighter socket to crocodile clips adapter. The Gale is 9.1 amps so I'm assuming I'd need a battery with preferably 10ah?

Or am I misunderstanding? DC voltages/amperages are more confusing to me than AC ones lol!


7Ah is the capacity, Like having a 7 Litre bucket.

10Amps is the current draw, or pour your water from your bucket at 10litres a minute. As the bucket is only 7 litres it will be empty before the minute is up.

Nothing stopping you pulling 50 amps from the 7Ah battery. It will just get very hot and discharge quickly.


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Our little acid battery is brilliant, its about the size of a brick, quite heavy and we just put the connectors from the pump on and away it goes, it's not like a leisure battery, you can recharge them which we do before every trip.

acid battery video

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Quote: Originally posted by aliguth on 19/6/2018
You could get a rechargeable Campingaz pump. Also works off 12v and mains. Around £40. It inflates our full-height airbed in under 5 mins.


It will not generate high enough pressure to inflate a tent.


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