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Topic: Electric blanket ?

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Hi guys
For the colder nights i was thinking of buying an electric blanket ( roof tent ) and just want to know what the wattage is please as i have a 2000w inverter.

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I wouldn't recommend running an electric blanket off an inverter unless you have a truly massive bank of batteries. Anything with a heating element would really cane a battery, and even an inverter in itself takes power. Run an electric blanket all night through an inverter and you would probably wake up to a completely flat battery.

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We have a Dreamland Boutique dual control heated mattress protector (half price at the moment, from Dunelm). The spec says ours uses 2 x 100W (i.e. 100W each side). The double uses 2 x 85W, so quite a low draw.

Hope this helps.

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If you only used one side at 85W that would draw over 7 Amps from the battery, add to that the inverter losses and it could be well over 8 Amps.
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Quote: Originally posted by lidds0 on 02/5/2022
We have a Dreamland Boutique dual control heated mattress protector (half price at the moment, from Dunelm). The spec says ours uses 2 x 100W (i.e. 100W each side). The double uses 2 x 85W, so quite a low draw.

Hope this helps.

The double plus the current draw of a 2kw inverter would certainly flatten a battery overnight.

2 X 85W is very little when running off a mains supply, but a continuous draw of that amount of current for several hours off a 12 volt battery would really give it a hammering.

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Ok cheer's guys that's a no then

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Quote: Originally posted by Cornish Rattler on 02/5/2022
Ok cheer's guys that's a no then

Hot water bottles are good, and cheap!

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I have 12v camping electric blankets are available.

I have nor tried one but im very curios about them

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we use an inverter to run our blanket but turn it off when we go to bed, they do state not to be used for camping or at least ours does

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