Best portable power for ghds?

[merl]

Hi Kerrycamper
As a fellow GHD user, I went down the leisure battery and inverter route. This runs my hairdryer and GHDs. My leisure batteries are attached to 2 x victron solar panels (I’ve got a large rig), but the leisure battery/inverter option is well within your budget. I appreciate you stated you wanted a portable power pack, but thought I’d mention this anyway

I've just measured the actual power taken by the SWMBOs hair straighteners and the results are quite surprising.
Their stated wattage is 42W but as they warm up they actually take a whopping 675 Watts!
I tried them on a smaller 600W/1200W peak pure sine inverter and it just wouldn't cut it.
These are not GHDs but are a set of Remingtons and they actually took 75 seconds to reach temperature, I'm just thinking that if GHDs or any other manufacturers for that matter heat up quicker than 75 secs then they'll probably take even more power!
So whether you go down the portable power pack route or the inverter route make sure you choose an appropriate output capability and go with a pure sinewave too as there's some quite complicated electronics built into them.

 

[QFour]

Be cheaper to buy a set of gas powered straighteners and save the money

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Crew cut even cheaper.

 

[madtheswine99]

The original poster asked a question and hasn't responded to any information, why? because the post gets hijacked by silly off topic remarks. Stick with the programme guys.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Okay boss but to be fair they will have had notifications of replies but they have not looked in since they posted the OP, and there have been sensible answers in the thread, so I assume like so many forums they pop in ask, get an answer from somewhere and don't come back.

I have yet to see any thread stay on topic for long unless it a really serious subject.

 

[mistericeman]

The original poster asked a question and hasn't responded to any information, why? because the post gets hijacked by silly off topic remarks. Stick with the programme guys.

They've not responded because they haven't visited since they posted the original question .....

Who employed you as A doorman BTW ?

 

[Pudsey Bear]

ECHO ECHO ECHO

 

[madtheswine99]

They've not responded because they haven't visited since they posted the original question .....

Who employed you as A doorman BTW ?

Not a Doorman, more of a Policeman But really you all may have frightened them away.

 

[mistericeman]

Not a Doorman, more of a Policeman But really you all may have frightened them away.

Then they definitely need thicker skin ....

Threads regularly wander off topic on here ....
It's what makes it fun and interesting ...

The grown ups that look after us usually manage to deal with anything too wayward .

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Not a Doorman, more of a Policeman But really you all may have frightened them away.

Id agree it's possible had they actually come back but it's very common and they may have asked all over the pla e then Googled a solution.

 

[merl]

Errr aren't going off topic by talking about how this thread is drifting off topic?

 

[mistericeman]

Errr aren't going off topic by talking about how this thread is drifting off topic?

And now even more so by now .....;-)

 

[REC]

And still the OP has not returned to look at his answers...maybe multiple sites were visited and another post was answered soon after it was put on here? Seems a waste of time but happend a fair bit!

 

[Drover]

Meri is spot on about ghd's, at least he got the same answer we got plugging the wifes in to our inverter....they wont work....they dont like the waves. And not the wavy hair
Not on 600w, tried our 3000w one and its still the same but I think its buggered anyway and I cant be bothered to check it. I ain't got any hair..
Sally now gets straight hair when we get a street *ight to plug into.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Type as well as watt might be the issue.

 

[Deleted member 93595]

Does anyone know or recommend a portable power pack suitable for ghd hair straighteners.?
I have about £900 quid and would like to know what’s best I can get for my money. Thanks guys is the brand anker recommended??

We had an Anker Bluetooth speaker it overheated on boat with smoke coming out of it when charged from cig lighter.Was very lightly used as well.
So won’t buy another Anker product.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

We had an Anker Bluetooth speaker it overheated on boat with smoke coming out of it when charged from cig lighter.Was very lightly used as well.
So won’t buy another Anker product.

You do have to be careful with those Zippo lighters, they will set things on fire.

 

[jagmanx]

Get a hair net I say. I look like Ena Sharples in mine.

By 'eck she were an 'ansome woman!

Was she married to the one time transport mister Ernest Marples ?
Presumably after he "lost his marbles" !

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I preferred Minnie Coldwell and her cat Bobby.

 

[Robmac]

I can just see you sitting in the snug with a pint of milk stout Kev.