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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 7:31:04 GMT
Spotted these truck bed heaters. Looks interesting. Label says 24v 37w. Questions Would it work on 12v? What sort of power consumption @12v? ? I've used the 240v ones before they are pretty good really. 37 watts does not seem like much heat though. Maybe a step up transformer would be the thing ? Look at this on eBay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/312063622040 |
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Post by JohnV on Feb 12, 2018 8:12:05 GMT
it would work on 12 volts but you probably wouldn't be able to feel the heat given off, it's so little  as a bed warmer that size 37 watts (on 24v) is probably ok they are quite small and if you think that a much larger mains electric blanket is only 100 -150 watts. There used to be (in the 50's) an electric bed warmer that consisted of flying saucer shaped metal casing with a 25 watt light bulb inside to heat it, a sort of more up to date version of a warming pan ..... and they worked quite well ...... especially if you put in a 40 watt bulb  |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 12, 2018 8:18:22 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 8:42:27 GMT
It would be for prewarming the berth in the yot (a boat for occasional use not living on) when the engine is running. Just thinking of different options for warming up the tiny v berth area.
Hot water bottle is one but I think a bed that has been warmed up in advance might be quite pleasant and it won't put a great deal of load on the engine.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 12, 2018 9:19:46 GMT
It would be for prewarming the berth in the yot (a boat for occasional use not living on) when the engine is running. Just thinking of different options for warming up the tiny v berth area. Hot water bottle is one but I think a bed that has been warmed up in advance might be quite pleasant and it won't put a great deal of load on the engine. if only when running the engine ..... why not just use a cheapo modified sine wave inverter 150 watt that you can use for other things as well and an ordinary cheap mains electric blanket  |
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Post by markhez on Feb 12, 2018 9:24:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 9:36:23 GMT
I sort of prefer to have DC. I've got a good inverter on there as well but the DC blanket appeals and its very cheap.
Would be inclined to go for the step up converter yes.
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Post by lollygagger on Feb 12, 2018 19:40:10 GMT
12v electric blankets are available. Bit mad to buy a 24v one if you have a 12v system?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 20:10:05 GMT
That's quite a deep and meaningful name to give your hot water bottle. Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, lords of Troy, in Greek mythology. She was also known as Alexandra. According to one myth, god Apollo gave her the gift of foretelling the future and then tried to sleep with her. However, she rejected him and to punish her, he cursed her so that no one would ever believe her prophecies. A different version has it that Cassandra initially consented to sleeping with the god in exchange for the ability to foresee the future, only to break her promise after she received the gift. After being cursed, she was met with disbelief by her family and by the Trojans. She foretold that Paris, her brother, would bring about a war that would destroy their city, if he went to Sparta. Her brother did not believe her, and upon his return from Sparta with Menelaus' wife, Helen, Cassandra attacked her for the pain that was about to be caused. She also foretold that Troy would fall by a clever machination of the Greeks, the Trojan Horse, in which they would hide; her fellow citizens did not listen to her words, thus causing the end of the city. After the fall of Troy, she was taken by Agamemnon back to his home; despite Cassandra's warnings about the plots of Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, he went back home where he was murdered by his wife and her lover, Aegisthus. When she died, her soul was sent to the Elysian Fields, a place in the Underworld where the worthy souls rested. |
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Post by Gone on Feb 13, 2018 9:59:54 GMT
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 13, 2018 12:07:39 GMT
That's quite a deep and meaningful name to give your hot water bottle. Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, lords of Troy, in Greek mythology. She was also known as Alexandra. According to one myth, god Apollo gave her the gift of foretelling the future and then tried to sleep with her. However, she rejected him and to punish her, he cursed her so that no one would ever believe her prophecies. A different version has it that Cassandra initially consented to sleeping with the god in exchange for the ability to foresee the future, only to break her promise after she received the gift. After being cursed, she was met with disbelief by her family and by the Trojans. She foretold that Paris, her brother, would bring about a war that would destroy their city, if he went to Sparta. Her brother did not believe her, and upon his return from Sparta with Menelaus' wife, Helen, Cassandra attacked her for the pain that was about to be caused. She also foretold that Troy would fall by a clever machination of the Greeks, the Trojan Horse, in which they would hide; her fellow citizens did not listen to her words, thus causing the end of the city. After the fall of Troy, she was taken by Agamemnon back to his home; despite Cassandra's warnings about the plots of Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, he went back home where he was murdered by his wife and her lover, Aegisthus. When she died, her soul was sent to the Elysian Fields, a place in the Underworld where the worthy souls rested. I am so pleased that my attempts to educate the thickos in the classics are finally paying off! |
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Post by thebfg on Feb 13, 2018 17:07:44 GMT
Can't you have a bed warmer and a butler as there are plenty of duties to be done whilst one is bed warming. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 13, 2018 17:11:35 GMT
That's quite a deep and meaningful name to give your hot water bottle. Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, lords of Troy, in Greek mythology. She was also known as Alexandra. According to one myth, god Apollo gave her the gift of foretelling the future and then tried to sleep with her. However, she rejected him and to punish her, he cursed her so that no one would ever believe her prophecies. A different version has it that Cassandra initially consented to sleeping with the god in exchange for the ability to foresee the future, only to break her promise after she received the gift. After being cursed, she was met with disbelief by her family and by the Trojans. She foretold that Paris, her brother, would bring about a war that would destroy their city, if he went to Sparta. Her brother did not believe her, and upon his return from Sparta with Menelaus' wife, Helen, Cassandra attacked her for the pain that was about to be caused. She also foretold that Troy would fall by a clever machination of the Greeks, the Trojan Horse, in which they would hide; her fellow citizens did not listen to her words, thus causing the end of the city. After the fall of Troy, she was taken by Agamemnon back to his home; despite Cassandra's warnings about the plots of Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, he went back home where he was murdered by his wife and her lover, Aegisthus. When she died, her soul was sent to the Elysian Fields, a place in the Underworld where the worthy souls rested. I am so pleased that my attempts to educate the thickos in the classics are finally paying off! Amazing. A whole sentence from TellyMackus without even one greengrocer's apostrophe. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2018 17:46:39 GMT
Or obscenity. Had to have an insult though..... can't expect too much Rog |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2018 17:57:35 GMT
Or obscenity. Had to have an insult though..... can't expect too much Rog I'm getting used to Nick's Ad Hominem posts, I've got thick skin though. I did do Latin at school, it was pulled for GCSE as there were not enough bright young things to make a class viable, that pissed me off at the time, but, with the wisdom of years I have realised that being fluent in a dead language but a failure as a human bean isn't all that great an achievement. That said, if it wasn't for Latin we wouldn't have had this excellent scene. |
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