running a thermo on a car battery?

[spanner]

Howdy to all and sundry .... if you feel like being a sundry then who am I to stop you!

I would like and answer to my question and this may or may not be a mission you can complete BUT.......


does anyone know if the thermy can be run from a car battery? I am wanting to take it camping .... cant wait to start grinding my nut milk at 0630 am in thelocal state forrest camping ground!!!  I can see it now .... all the tree huggers (like my self) will come screaming out of their tents naked looking for the loggers who are trying to cut down the trees.  Hahahaha ....

Anyway ....I digress....  I am wanting to cook and process foods when I am away from a mains power supply. I also have a potential customer who wants to have one in their 'rolling estate' .... (bus with a bed and kitchen) for the non-technical like me.

So any ideas on the how to and what is needed would be gratefully accepted.

Tree-huggingly yours,

Spanner

[Thermomixer]

try looking and asking at the 4WD shops - http://motorcare.com.au/inverter.htm

May need to take some extra petrol/diesel to run the engine so you don't flatten the battery - don't know - but 4 wders will.

There are the petrol or diesel (not sure) generators that tradies use when miles from power supplies - a little noisier.

[Sundari]

one of the women at the class mrs spanner and i went to said they had done it with a battery for camping
?using some kind of converter? Gillian should know

[brazen20au]

i'd be too scared! lol

[Thermomixer]

one of the women at the class mrs spanner and i went to said they had done it with a battery for camping
?using some kind of converter? Gillian should know

LOL - is this an M rated site ?? no children listening?? what did the woman do??  Only joking - it must be possible and safe.

[spanner]

oh my mind is racing with the possabilities     .... rowr!!   

[Ceejay]

Would that be an "inverter"? 

[cookie1]

We have a 1600W generator that we carry caravaning and I've just looked in the TMX book and it says the maximum power consumption is 1500W so I would imagine that we could use this. I can't really see it running off a car battery-the heating part of the TMX uses 1000W.  I'm not really that way inclined so perhaps a clever person could tell you. A girlfriend wants to use hers on her boat so I'm glad someone bought this up. Thanks Spanner.

[spanner]

Kind of keen not to have the heating part of the tmx which is the 1500 watts but more the 500 watt 30 second blits for our morning smoothies and maybe a quick blend or three of other stuff.

If we were to cook it would be on the lower heats for a 'raw meal'.

Cheers

[cookie1]

Let us know how it goes...............and if the car starts ok.

We flattened our battery one night using the Engel fridge. That was when we got 2 batteries in the car.

[Ceejay]

I spent a couple of hundred $ on a deep cycle battery for my camper... hooked up to solar panel.  Wonder how it would go? 
Could be interesting for the Folk Festival this year...

[spanner]

Hi CeeJay,

I would love to know how it performs with you deep cycle system.

Cheers,

Spanner

[CreamPuff63]

[quote author no children listening?? what did the woman do?? 

ahem, got it TMXR was thinking along the same lines as you (thought I was the only one!!!)

[Ceejay]

Hi CeeJay,

I would love to know how it performs with you deep cycle system.

Cheers,

Spanner

Hmmm will have to hook it all up at some stage I guess... won't be for a month or so though!