I want to wire it into my car battery and use it for my electric skillet which is 1500 watts. Will this be adequate?
749832
Yes, but you'll have to use the included heavy-duty cabling. The skinny cable with the cigarette lighter plug is too light.
749833
to a degree...it will work if the car is running an charging the battery. One battery alone will not operate long enough for you to cook. It will power the skillet for a short time.
749834
Use TWO/2 Gauge wire and you'll be fine... better have your engine running though... 1500 watts will drain the battery very quickly.
749835
At 1500 watts and assuming you have an average, good condition, fully charged car battery (that provides 45 amp/hours), you can run your grill for 3.6 hours before the battery is completely depleted. Realistically, you'll probably run out of juice some time well before that (after 2.5-3 hours? Perhaps), but hopefully you're not grilling a steak that long. Everyone else that seems to think it'll instantly drain your battery doesn't know much about power.That being said, if you DO run your grill for 2.5 hours, you may not be able to start your car. Just grill for a normal period of time... At 1500 watts and assuming you have an average, good condition, fully charged car battery (that provides 45 amp/hours), you can run your grill for 3.6 hours before the battery is completely depleted. Realistically, you'll probably run out of juice some time well before that (after 2.5-3 hours? Perhaps), but hopefully you're not grilling a steak that long. Everyone else that seems to think it'll instantly drain your battery doesn't know much about power.That being said, if you DO run your grill for 2.5 hours, you may not be able to start your car. Just grill for a normal period... » Read More At 1500 watts and assuming you have an average, good condition, fully charged car battery (that provides 45 amp/hours), you can run your grill for 3.6 hours before the battery is completely depleted. Realistically, you'll probably run out of juice some time well before that (after 2.5-3 hours? Perhaps), but hopefully you're not grilling a steak that long. Everyone else that seems to think it'll instantly drain your battery doesn't know much about power.That being said, if you DO run your grill for 2.5 hours, you may not be able to start your car. Just grill for a normal period of time... « Show Less
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It depends what you want to use it for. It has a special connector attached to fit the power wheel toy. You would have to know how many amps you want to draw and for how long? It is back to "what are you going to use it for in a car?"
721890
You mean watts? This wire should be fine for a few hundred watts. If you were going closer to 500w you would want 10 gauge maybe 8
1527655
no I dont believe it will handle the current it is rated for 15?amp max at most
1444214
Absolutely, however, 1500 watts is a lot for a small engine. I use a 1500 watt in my caterpillar loaders. Consider a lower wattage heater, unless you plan on needing it to heat up quickly. I use 400 watts in my smaller diesel engines, and they keep them toasty warm.
1868547
None. Just connect it to your battery terminals and turn it on. The electrical system in your small car will handle the 2000 watt load.
1293466
Hi R.,It can work great as long as the watts of the appliances is less than 1300w and as long as you connect it to the car battery directly and not to the ciggarete plug (it might burn the car fuse if the Watts of the appliances that are used are too high.Hope this helps,Angela CS Email Representative
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I agree with Paul depending on how much reserve battery power you have will dictate how long you can pull 800W. For better service I advise to use bigger wire to connect to battery and shortes length possible, 4 awg or 2 awg if need to be longer wire with ring termals. Unless you have a big battery bank reserve best to keep plenty of 12V power to batteries. There is a formula to calculate the load online
1576604
Hi there. For camping. and sleeping on the back of my pickup truck. Im using a 100 watt solar pannel connected to a 125 mah battery with a 1000 watt power inverter. I also use a 200 watt heater( smallest I could find) so I wont drain the battery so quick. in other words this one can be use as well in a setu up like mine or if you want to use it in your car battery you would need to connect the 1000 watt amp DIRECTLY from the car battery. DONOT connect it of cigaret outlet. it will blow the fuse since those dont allow to go up to 1000 watts. any questions just ask :)
979582
FYI, your 12v system in your car is generally only fused for 150-175 watts, if you want to use the inverters full watt rating you will need a direct connection to a battery or series of batteries
917175
This is a lawn mower soloenoid it handles approximately 300 amps from a lawn and garden battery, the one that i bought works flawlessly. If you are thinking about using it on a car i dont think it heavy duty enough.
859656
I believe it pulls 1500 watts. Check your setting for your circuit breaker.
1612909
It will handle a car battery but really depends what you are going to control with it and how many amps it pulls.
178805
It is rumored to be 1700 watts. I use it on a 20 amp circuit. The iron works just as well as the much more expensive unit it replaced (due to a worn, shorted cord).
2002407
I used a standard car battrery and it ran a radio 2 40 watt lamps for days before needing a charge. Make sure you dont get poitive and negitive mixed up. It killed my inverter dead.
22136
Sure it would work... but 1.5 Watt panel is not very much input in a car or truck battery. How much amp out put is that panel?Let me know... Don
1303577
It should work, its draw is 5 amps with a slight spike when it starts according to my power meter during its run, so for a car battery a constant but relatively low level 5 Amp/60 watt drain, you would need to look at your car starting battery to see if this type of drain is supported, many car starting batteries are designed to provide one powerful burst of current to get your car started, not a long term drain.