Electric hookup

[Phil Smith]

Good morning everyone. We are taking the van away for a week on Friday, as we have done many times before , but for the first time yet my partner has asked if she can use hair straighteners on electric hookup ? If she uses them while we don't have anything else running off the hookup, will they be ok ? Thankyou .

 

[Loz]

Yes

 

[Wildcamper]

Amps=Watts/volts so 1000watts at 240 volts is a little over 4 amps. Most hook-ups are about 16amps. So unless you have a monstrous set of hair straighteners you should be ok.

 

[Phil Smith]

Thankyou both very much for your reply

 

[soulstyledevon]

Phil

I understand you pain...
I get an ear bashing everytime i take her away with no hook-up. Bloody Straighteners

 

[Phil Smith]

you are not wrong mate , but we will carry on doing what we can eh .

 

[Calimili]

what about a 12V hair straightener ?

 

[Loz]

what about a 12V hair straightener ?

A bit like @Amarillo's 12V Kettle (not successful)

 

[Phil Smith]

Thankyou , good idea , kettle not a problem, l have gas kettle . Thanks anyway.

 

[Calimili]

A bit like @Amarillo's 12V Kettle

producing heat out of 12V batteries it's always.... challenging..

 

[Wildcamper]

If you straighteners are 250watts then from a 12v supply these will draw 20amps. Hope you have an excellent leisure battery! You will find out if not.

 

[Calimili]

If you straighteners are 250watts then from a 12v supply these will draw 20amps. Hope you have an excellent leisure battery! You will find out if not.

250W at 240V is less than 1A at 12v. Straighteners seem to peak on average at 300W in the first minute, even then it would draw less than 2A from 12v. So well within the 10A or 15A of a standard cig plug.

 

[JaneJ]

Phil

I understand you pain...
I get an ear bashing everytime i take her away with no hook-up. Bloody Straighteners

Christmas sorted for you then @soulstyledevon ...
Babyliss gas straighteners
Not from a 907 bottle but little gas cartridges. Not as good as mains ones obviously, but travel size and 'camping compromise' ok.

 

[andyinluton]

250W at 240V is less than 1A at 12v. Straighteners seem to peak on average at 300W in the first minute, even then it would draw less than 2A from 12v. So well within the 10A or 15A of a standard cig plug.

Are you sure about that? 240W at 240V is 1A 240W at 12V is 20A so double the 10A capacity of the standard plug.

 

[WelshGas]

250W at 240V is less than 1A at 12v. Straighteners seem to peak on average at 300W in the first minute, even then it would draw less than 2A from 12v. So well within the 10A or 15A of a standard cig plug.

I think you need a new calculator.

 

[Phil Smith]

Thanks all . Very helpful

 

[Calimili]

Are you sure about that? 240W at 240V is 1A 240W at 12V is 20A so double the 10A capacity of the standard plug.

I think you need a new calculator.

Sorry I cocked up, you guys are right, I got it the other way round.

in any case, I struggle to believe they produced a 20A 12V hair straightener as it won't work in any cig plug.

 

[Paul_W]

Good morning everyone. We are taking the van away for a week on Friday, as we have done many times before , but for the first time yet my partner has asked if she can use hair straighteners on electric hookup ? If she uses them while we don't have anything else running off the hookup, will they be ok ? Thankyou .

just to confirm wife uses her GHD straighteners on hookup every day when we are away, absolutely no issues at all

 

[GSX1300R]

We are on a site now in mid Wales I’ve had a 2kw heater, Electric camping kettle and a toaster all going at the same time and not tripped off.

 

[Phil Smith]

We are on a site now in mid Wales I’ve had a 2kw heater, Electric camping kettle and a toaster all going at the same time and not tripped off.

 

[Phil Smith]

Excellent, good to know . Thankyou , have a good trip .

 

[Dottie]

Might I cause a problem to my van or would it trip if I got the calculations wrong?

i don’t know what the calculation is but I’m charging my phone, running my beats pill and my heater....so far so good. Oh, and I use the hairdryer too....I only have 3 sockets.

i will use this week to get my head around the calculation, me thinks!

 

[WelshGas]

Might I cause a problem to my van or would it trip if I got the calculations wrong?

i don’t know what the calculation is but I’m charging my phone, running my beats pill and my heater....so far so good. Oh, and I use the hairdryer too....I only have 3 sockets.

i will use this week to get my head around the calculation, me thinks!

Ignore anything plugged into the 12v sockets. Only the Mains, 3 pin , sockets count in practice.

The calculation is fairly simple. Anything you plug into the Mains socket should have a table saying how many Watts it is.
Divide watts by 240 and add 2 and that would give the number of AMPS of electricity. If the number is greater than 12, in the UK, you could trigger the Campsite power supply circuit breaker.

On the continent the figure could be 6 0r 10 depending on the campsite.

Unlikely to cause any problems to your California but any Great Whites watching Corrie or Eastenders may not be happy.

 

[Dottie]

Thank you.
I’ll spend tonight listing my appliances - another item for my list, but that‘s been playing on my mind