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Hi All

Does anyone have good or bad brand recommendations for a 12V hair-dryer. 

Thanks Robyn 



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There are no good 12v hair dryers. Heat requires power and 12v hair dryers simply don't produce enough heat to be any use. If you have enough battery power use a normal one with an inverter.

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Just do what we do. Rev up the Honda genny. Works for my bride.

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Just do what we do. Rev up the Honda genny. Works for my bride.

 Especially at 2am in the morning. Everyone else will be asleep, so they won't hear it    Haha



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Just do what we do. Rev up the Honda genny. Works for my bride.

 Especially at 2am in the morning. Everyone else will be asleep, so they won't hear it    Haha

 

 

Especially as 2am is in the morning  haha  



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Hi Robyn,
Welcome to the Forum, I'm sure you will find many things in here to interest you.

As alluded to above there are some 12 volt hairdryers on the market but, they are next to useless except as a kid's toy.

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If you let us know what battery capacity & overall setup you have. If it's good enough you may be able to run a hair dryer via an inverter. Maybe at half power if possible. BUT half power is still about a 1000 watts as most hair dryers seem to be 1800 to 2000 watts.

 

Even only 1000 watts will suck the life out of your batteries very quickly. You need a good inverter, large battery capacity & also a substantial means of recharging. Even then one would need to be extremely disciplined to run equipment with heavy load for as minimum time as possible.

 

It's one thing running equipment, but then another thing getting that power back into the batteries. 

 

You need to look at a whole system setup.

 

Not to forget payload. Large batteries, lots of solar & ancillary equipment. The weight adds up very quickly. Something somewhere has to give.



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Not to forget payload. Large batteries, lots of solar & ancillary equipment. The weight adds up very quickly. Something somewhere has to give.

 

 

Excellent point there and that's why a Honda generator is just ticket to ensure everything will function all the time. 



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Just do what we do. Rev up the Honda genny. Works for my bride.

 Here Here for My bride.

 



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Just do what we do. Rev up the Honda genny. Works for my bride.

 Especially at 2am in the morning. Everyone else will be asleep, so they won't hear it    Haha

 
That's what I do when using the Genie. I don't need a hairdryer though.  



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Dougwe wrote:
Southern Cruizer wrote:
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Just do what we do. Rev up the Honda genny. Works for my bride.

 Especially at 2am in the morning. Everyone else will be asleep, so they won't hear it    Haha

 
That's what I do when using the Genie. I don't need a hairdryer though.  

 

 

OK Chief, so how do you dry those feathers biggrin 



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I only have one left Mate so not a problem drying.

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I only have one left Mate so not a problem drying.

 

 

Please change your picture then, so we can all have a laugh biggrin

Only joking of course, take care Cobber. And look after that feather.

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 Hey Craig, which twin is that one. The good one  or the gooder one



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Hey Robyn, the boys are being very naughty taking your topic "off topic". I would never do anything like that. Not me, no way.

It's not one of the twins anyway. They both have blond hair.

Just for you Aussie.

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Does anybody remember the Twins these days?  I do.



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Robyn it's very hard for some of us, if not most of us to give too much info on hair dryers. Some of us haven't got a blade of hair on our noggins so hair dryers seem to be a long way down on our what to take list. Do hope you you can sort something out re hair dryer

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Maybe ChatGPT could design you a gas powered hair dryer.



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Does anybody remember the Twins these days?  I do.



-- Edited by msg on Thursday 1st of June 2023 02:29:32 PM



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