Charging Dyson V6 on inverter, Question.

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My daughter's Dyson V6 rechargeable vacuum cleaner started cutting out so her "more-money-than-sense" husband goes out & buys a new one.

Spigot grabs the old one & on examination finds the rotary brush on the floor attachment is jammed with hair & shite. Looking at online instructions, I get the brush out, remove the hair wrapped around it, get all the muck out & give it a good clean & now it's as good as new.

I'm wondering if it's possible to charge this in the camper, I have a 300 watt inverter which is probably not enough. My question is....If I get a bigger inverter, will I be able to charge this in the van??. I have 2 x 110a batteries & 2 x 40w solar panels, which is all I could get on the roof.

All advice will be gratefully received.
 
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Well done you! Despite all the teasing I get, I love my little hand-held Dyson in the van :dance:

Can't help you on the techie side but for what it's worth, I've found that if I charge mine up at home before I go away, it lasts for ages. I even did my 6 week summer trip on one charge. Mine lasts for about 15 minutes of hoovering (your model is 20 minutes I think) and, since the MH floor is a pretty small space and only takes a couple of minutes, that's a lot of cleaning - even for me :raofl:
 
Dyson do a charger which plugs into cigerette lighter socket sorry doubled post slow internet
 
Don’t buy the dyson one you can get one from maplin with different attachments to charge nearly anything half the price of Dyson’s
 
12V charger makes much more sense... the Dyson part number you need is 967837-02.

I'm interested too, so found this on another forum in response to a question from someone with a 600W inverter...

"We have the DC31 which I believe is the same without the extra filter/tools (ours is also 65 Air Watts).

The mains charger is labelled 100-240v 0.3Amps (the amps will be at lowest voltage ie 100v, so on 240v mains it would be ~half that).

I have a power meter and just checked ours and charging its using 12Watts so your 600W inverter would be fine, and it should only draw just over an amp from your leisure battery so a 3.5 hour charge would take out <5Ah so you'd be fine to do this parked up. "

Hope you can make more sense of that than I can! Another response said to use a 12V charger when driving.
 
If it has a battery and it’s re chargeable then it will charge of you’re 12 system with an adaptor.
 
spigot said:
I have a 300 amp inverter which is probably not enough.
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I think you mean "300 watt". a 300 watt inverter will supply just over 1 amp at 240v.
A 300 amp (@ 240 v) would run over 20 domestic kettles ! However it would draw over 6000 amps from your battery and flatten it/them in under a minute.


Minisorella said:
The mains charger is labelled 100-240v 0.3Amps (the amps will be at lowest voltage ie 100v, so on 240v mains it would be ~half that).
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So, according to Minisorella, the charger draws 0.15 amp at 240v, well within the capacity of a 300 w inverter.

I disagree with Minisorella's 12v calculation.
Minisorella said:
...it should only draw just over an amp from your leisure battery so a 3.5 hour charge would take out <5Ah so you'd be fine to do this parked up. "
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240v 0.15 amp output from the inverter requires 240/12 x 0.15 amp = 3 amp from the battery. 3.5 hour charge will take 3.5 * 3 = 10.5 Ah.

However, using an inverter is a bit nonsensical.
You use the inverter to change 12v DC to 240v AC, then the mains charger to convert 240 v AC back to 12v DC.
Far better to use a cable with a cigar lighter plug on one end and a Dyson socket on the other.

Anyway as someone else pointed out the cleaner battery will last a long time. We charged our Gtec up once during a 6 week tour, and that was only because we ended up on a site with EHU and not because the battery was flat !
 
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So, according to Minisorella, the charger draws 0.15 amp at 240v, well within the capacity of a 300 w inverter.

I disagree with Minisorella's 12v calculation.


240v 0.15 amp output from the inverter requires 240/12 x 0.15 amp = 3 amp from the battery. 3.5 hour charge will take 3.5 * 3 = 10.5 Ah.

However, using an inverter is a bit nonsensical.
You use the inverter to change 12v DC to 240v AC, then the mains charger to convert 240 v AC back to 12v DC.
Far better to use a cable with a cigar lighter plug on one end and a Dyson socket on the other
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I notice this Dyson operates on 21.6 volts, 350 watts, can the cigar lighter charger handle that?. I can't seem to find out.
 
Yeah £32 for a free DC59 sums it up ok

Alf

spigot said:
Hi Alf,
Yeah, thanks, checked it out & my model No. (DC59) is on the list. Being tight, I was trying to get away with not lashing out £32 on a car charger.
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Just had it on charge in the camper for 2 hours & my battery reading went down from 12.9 to 12.6v.

I reckon there’s nothing to worry about.
 
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