Need to use a curling iron outdoors... and only energy source is my car, what plugs do I need?

Question

I believe there are converters, and can be plugged at the lighter hole. But, I need to have both the curling iron and flat iron plugged in.
So, is there anything that I can use to plug the irons?

Please help, thank you :)
If you know the price or where i can get them, it would help A LOT thank you!

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Answer 1

It's called a power inverter, and you need to check the wattage that your curling iron and flat iron draws. Most inverters can handle up to 400 Watts. If you need more Watts you'll need to get an inverter that draw right from the battery and you'll need to have the car started so the alternator can assist in the production of the needed electricity.

Look on your curling iron and flat iron. There information about it typically etched in them. probably says 110-125V and a Watt rating.

You'll need to purchase an inverter that can handle the wattage requirements.

Answer 2

You need either an IN-verter or a 12 volt version of the curling iron. Curling irons have a limited power rating so either the 12 volt iron or the inverter will connect direct to the car battery. If you try to use the ordinary car wiring you may blow fuses or perhaps start a fire.

http://www.phrannie.org/invert.html

A flat iron will be rated at about 600 Watts and will draw 55 amps plus at 12 volts from the battery through an inverter since inverters use about 10% of the power themselves. It is seriously not anywhere near practical with a car battery. Apart from the very real danger of fire in the wiring, it will flatten, wreck or even explode the battery before you have got through ironing the first item.

You may be able to supply such a large draw with a very large deep cycle battery, but you will need something like a 100amp-hour unit to avoid stressing it. It has to be a deep cycle battery, not a car battery as the internal construction is different.

Inverters are available from camping goods shops and generally cost from a hunded or so on up, depending on capacity. If you go cheap, even if the battery was adequate you will burn out the inverter the moment you plug the flat iron in.

If this is to be a constant thing, it may be worthwhile to get a generator which can supply mains voltages. Look for one with a 1 kilowatt capacity so it can handle the iron.

Alternately look for a flat iron that burns kerosene or gasoline/petrol or maybe butane. This will take a web search. These things used to be made, were dangerous in careless or ignorant hands and are almost certainly not made new any more.

http://pilgrim.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2569

Generators and inverters can kill you if not correctly connected or operated in wet areas or the rain.

Answer 3

For the most part I agree with Engineer. Hybrids will gain in popularity until plug-in hybrids are introduced, at which point they'll begin to take over most of the market. Electric cars will also become more popular as battery technology improves and their range increases while their recharge time and initial cost decrease. I disagree that hydrogen-fueled cars will never become competetive. If aluminum alloys pan out as a reasonably efficient way to extract hydrogen on large scales, that could solve the transportation and storage problems associated with hydrogen. This won't happen until around the middle of the century, but hydrogen-fueled cars may comprise a significant portion of the transportation sector at some point.

Answer 4

12 Volt Curling Iron

Answer 5

there are converters that have multiple outlets that will indeed plug right into the cigarette lighter. make sure you let the car run every now and then so you dont kill the battery. you can find them at any parts store like auto zone pep boys napa etc. even the local wal-mart will have them. they can run from $50 to a couple hundred dollars depending on how big it is.

Answer 6

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I expect that in the near future hybrids will become dominant. In particular plug-in hybrids will become very popular because they will archived mileage that is unattainable in other technologies. Plug-in hybrids will get between 100 and 200 miles per gallon even in larger cars and light trucks. For a time there may be a transition away from gasoline to ethanol and bio-diesel if battery technology continues to develop slowly. At some point though I think batteries will become so well developed that hybrids will fade out to be replaced entirely by battery-electric pasenger cars, which will become the dominant technology for at least the next 100 years. In larger vehicles such as trucks and boats liquid fuels may continue to dominate either in hybrid system or a straight internal combustion system. At some point on the order of 20-50 years out that liquid fuel will be entirely renewable generated. Hydrogen will never be commercially deployed for several reasons. The most important reason is that it is very inefficient compared to all other energy delivery systems and cannot be made to be competitively efficient. There is no infrastructure and developing one will prove to be prohibitively expensive. Hydrogen is very dangerous to handle and it will be both difficult and expensive to overcome that problem. Hydrogen is a low energy density fuel and the in-vehicle storage problems are very difficult technically. As a result, well before the technology for hydrogen is fully developed, batteries will have become the dominant technology and will not be displaced by hydrogen. So this is the way I think it will most likely play out: Hybrids will continue to grow in popularity until about 10 years from now most new cars will be hybrids. During that time biofuels will also continue to develop and will satisfy perhaps as much as 20% of our fuel needs. The first plug-in hybrids will be offered in 2-5 years from now and by 20 years out virtually all cars made will be either plug-in hybrids or fully electric. Fully electric cars will start to be introduced about 5 years from now aimed at the mainstream market. Acceptance will be slow at first because of the high cost of batteries but performance issues will have been overcome. Because of the rapidly growing production volume of hybrid batteries in particular the cost of batteries will start to fall rapidly between 10 and 20 years from now. By 20 years out pure electrics will start to gain market share from hybrids and from that point on the car market will shift towards pure electric cars. By about 50 years from now almost all cars will be electric and hybrids will be used mostly by people how need either extreme range or very high power for towing trailers and the like. The commercial vehicle market will be fully hybrid by 20 years out and will likely remain hybrid due to need for high power and long range. Somewhere in the 20-50 year range shifting fuel use and dropping demand for liquid fuels will allow the growing biofuel industry to fully supply all domestic fuel needs and fossil fuels will be fully phased out for transportation uses.