12v hairdryer 12v straighteners

[aogrady]

Hi,

Can you connect a small hose , with adapter, such as a vacuum cleaner hose (with the thin nozzle on the end) to the outlet vent of the heating duct?

its something I wonder if I could do in my T5, which has a eberspacher...

Alistair

 

[snowdrops]

I'm lucky in that mine works with a hook up if I need it. To be honest, for me, camping is where I go to get away from all that. Camping hair is liberating

 

[Sid52]

Agree that a hair dryer on 12v will probably not be that effective. However, straighteners on 12 volt work very well and they must do if my wife says so. They just plug into a 12v socket.
Here's the link

Amazon product ASIN B0042NYF3O

 

[KiwiKampers]

Sound good will have a look for these any ideas where I could look on internet thanks

My hubby bought me my Hair Styla straighteners from a Comet-style shop in NZ, so I can’t help you locate them unfortunately. He was getting fed up of me looking like Jimi Hendrix.

 

[rick brind]

WHY?

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[TinaLes]

Ah! its starting to make sense now, I have noticed over the months that TinaL has a larger than ever selection of hats in the van these days, they dont seem to put so much strain on the hab batteries either.
LES

 

[Murrays]

I bought these after a recommendation on another forum: Amazon product ASIN B0042NYF3O
I have a cordless gas brush styler and a set of rechargeable straighteners, both of which I find useless. I used the above purchase today and am pretty happy with them. Ok, so I’m looking forward to Hubbie finishing his inverter and new high capacity leisure battery installation, so I might be able to use my normal 240v set, but in the meantime these are good. Considering a second set to keep on the family narrowboat. Yep, I’m spoiled......

 

[patricia the newbie]

I remember being shocked at how little of anything works very well when not on EHU. When I was buying my first camper the guy I was buying it off asked me what I'd like to take with me, when I told him, he could hardly speak for laughing .

 

[RidersofRohan]

Short hair. Best and cheapest solution.

 

[Neilfg]

Bought USB straighteners for Jacqui for Xmas, they work well better than expected apparently, but thick or long hair not sure.

Himaly Cordless Straighteners Rechargeable Portable Hair Straightener
Amazon product ASIN

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[eddie]

As everyone states 12 VDC for any heat is useless.

Inverters can easily be installed so that they automatically supply the 13 amp sockets when the inverter is on, and the sockets reverts to Mains hook up once it is available.

On my set up, we have an inverter/charger fitted which monitors the mains hook up supply and should there be a "shortfall" between what is available and what is needed it will invert the difference, to avoid tripping the mains hook up.

It will then revert to charging at a slightly higher rate once the demand had passed to replenish the battery.

Another advantage of this is that the inverter can be used as a back up for mains failure or some silly sod unplugging my van in an attempt at plugging theirs in.

Now I admit that for me its not the end of the world, but say for example next Month I will sadly be stuck in the NEC for the NCC Motorhome and Caravan show, and will miss the Six Nations rugby, so will leave the TV system set up to record the game and try to have a media embargo till I get back to our motorhome and watch it "live" recorded. Imagine if the mains failed and I get back all excited and the system is shut down! terrible! lol

For more serious uses, an automatic "back up" for mains becomes more important if it is being used for medical equipment for example

My wife is also happy as she has a hair dryer

 

[PeteH]

I had a similar system fitted to the R-V, It consisted of a 40 amp rated 3 way centre neutral 6 way rotary switch. Pos 1 had everything on EHU. Pos 2 had the generator supply. Pos 3 had all the sockets on a 3KVA inverter. with the Battery Charger Isolated. When on Pos 3 the Frig was automatically on gas.

 

[Jezzapux]

Be careful, if you don't understand safe electrical isolation, watts, amps, Kva etc get someone who does to do it. A battery has enough energy to kill if the voltage is raised by an inverter. A changeover switch was difficult and expensive when I did this because contact clearances must give an isolation and not fail to ever allow both supplies to be available. This way seemed the best way. Not the most elegant but cheap effective and safe. Remember that wet grass provides a good earth to someone in bare feet. cross body shocks going to a good earth can so easily be fatal.

I cheated and wired the EHU input to feed another standard weather proof socket inside. Similarly the inverter (2Kw) supplies another similar socket alongside. The input to my mains Trip and MCBs is via another EHU standard weather tight plug inside. So plug this plug into either of the two sockets described above and the van is fed with mains from either the EHU or inverter as desired. I wired a small neon indicator so that whichever socket was live lights up.
Safe with no possibility of cross feed of inverter/ mains supply.
Trained wife to towel dry hair first then use hair dryer fed from inverter to power it for a short time on the low setting. If it is run for too long the inverter cuts out before the battery is flattened. She seems happy and can style her hair, happy wife, happy life.

The battery is charged right up before use as the sun is usually up before us, after use we either move on or the 120w solar panel charges it up in the morning. We have used this setup for several years while we tour around Spain.

If I were younger I would replace the led acid batteries with Lithium ones but I feel it is likely that our motorhoming days will stop before we have got our money's worth out of them, mid seventies (not her) so who knows when.

 

[Neilfg]

Link did not work on previous post so reposted with correct URL, wife informs me that these work well and at 19.95 an awful lot cheaper than inverter

Amazon product ASIN B07G8ZJCCK

 

[jemhorn]

It's early so shoot me down but would it be possible to connect the inverter to the EHU socket
(when not hooked up obviously) to allow 240v devices to be used from the 3 pin sockets. I've just fitted a 3000W PSW inverter and twin 110Ah batteries to allow general charging of batteries for phones, laptops etc and occasional hairdryer and hoover use and now I'm thinking that for convenience it would be great to use the existing 240v sockets in and around the van instead of trapsing extension leads everywhere from the inverter.

Yes had that done on my van. I have 4 sockets live on the inverter so easy. Just switch on the inverter and off you go. Far too technical on how for me left it to Tom at Mullacott Caravans, Ilfracombe.

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[Simon Select]

About the size of the Hair Dryer Rachel takes in our motorhome!

 

[The Coops]

Get her to shave it all off, I love the bald woman look after the Star Trek film, can't just think of the actress but she was very sexy and didn't need a hairdryer OR you could get her to stick her head out of the side window when you drive along.........same effect as a hair dryer

 

[JP1889]

I’m after 12v hairdryer and 12v straighteners for my wife anybody know of a good set

That does seem a really good swop, will you miss her?

I'll get my coat!

 

[dunnah01]

I cheated and wired the EHU input to feed another standard weather proof socket inside. Similarly the inverter (2Kw) supplies another similar socket alongside. The input to my mains Trip and MCBs is via another EHU standard weather tight plug inside. So plug this plug into either of the two sockets described above and the van is fed with mains from either the EHU or inverter as desired. I wired a small neon indicator so that whichever socket was live lights up.

Thanks for this idea. I've picked up all the bits to make it happen but can't quite get my head around the inverter effectively charging the battery it is being operated from. Have you noticed any significant drain on the batteries when the system is on standby ie no load on it but just sitting looping juice from battery to the inverter to the MCBs to the charger to the battery, when not on EHU?