P.S. for clothes dryer
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MaikaiLife
Solar Enthusiast
A power station? So you’re essentially looking for a portable (or semi-portable) battery to run your dryer? If that’s the case, you may want to explore other options — electric dryers require a significant amount of energy, and most portable power stations aren’t designed to handle loads that large.
faultcurrent
Solar Enthusiast
The only dryer I'd even consider running off a powerstation would be a heat pump type. Resistive heating is never going to be practical. Even one with a beefy battery/external add one battery is going to be run dead flat drying a load with resistive. Is 5600W the actual draw from the outlet or the rated drying power? Check the product owner's manual to see what it draws from the outlet. A heat pump dryer may only draw 700W.
Q-Dog
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Solar powered clothes dryer.
Thank you for your reply. Will check. What do people do during outage? Forget about dryer?
faultcurrent
Solar Enthusiast
Combination wind + solar. Must have been tricky to get it past the inspection process though.
Thank you for rreplying. Trying to figure out two needed p.s. as freezer and refrigerators are are in different parts of house.
Q-Dog
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We have a gas clothes dryer that works fine on our inverter. But, my wife still wanted a clothes line for certain things. We put up a retractable line ... pull it out when needed and it retracts out of the way when not needed.
faultcurrent
Solar Enthusiast
If the weather doesn't suit hanging clothes on a line outside, maybe hang them in the carport and have a fan blowing over them. No good if you have freezing temperatures though.
Forgot you guys have gas fired dryers too. If that is your type the electrical draw would just be the drum motor so check the electrical specs in the owners manual.
I have 6kwh avg here in Ca. Plenty for clothes line. Will do. Should have known at my age (84) but w/o a woman around.
Brucey
Velcro Man
Assuming its just a few hours or so the gas dryer could be considered a non critical load. Especially if you have a limited battery capacity, could be considered a luxury load.
Focus on your fridge, freezer, network gear, etc first. Then maybe air fryer, induction hot plate, microwave etc.
Thank you. That's what I have been doing and will continue ue to do.
doing it different
Solar Enthusiast
In the old days they let it freeze dry on the line. Than brought it in to finish off at the wood stove.
The freezing gets rid of some water... but I am sure a sunny cold day works the best
Brucey
Velcro Man
Could make it as simple as extension cords out to some appliances especially if wife isn't there to yell about cords in hallways.
Exactly why I need 2 power stations. Not interested in polarizing whole house just back up when power goes out.
If my grid was out and the sun wasn't 12'clock high, there would be no dryer running...
If this lasted for weeks and we ran out of clean clothes, we'd probably go buy more clothes. If for some reason that wasn't practical, id bust out some rope and string up a clothes line in the basement or something.
If this lasted for weeks and we ran out of clean clothes, we'd probably go buy more clothes. If for some reason that wasn't practical, id bust out some rope and string up a clothes line in the basement or something.
dopeassjackson
Solar Enthusiast
Switch to propane/gas and you have a chance of running off a power station. Those staying to get a heat pump water heater..they take like 3x the time per load, cost 2x as much so not saving much. There also maintenance hogs.
Delmar
Solar Wizard
Brucey
Velcro Man
Just watch out on the drum startup surge of a propane dryer, mine would surge to 2700VA, right on the edge of my transformer based phoenix 48/1200, however total failure to start with my hf delta 2 max rated for 2400W.
Q-Dog
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Yup, our Multiplus 3000 lets out a little buzz when we hit the start button on the dryer but it runs fine. But I was really surprised at how much juice the ignitor uses to light the flame.
ekrainey
New Member
may i suggest https://www.lg.com/us/washers-dryers/lg-dlhc5502w-electric-dryer
i have one for the utility shed perfect for the off grid + no sacrifice. usually less than 1kwh per load of power uses, compared to 5kwh with conventional dryer.
i have one for the utility shed perfect for the off grid + no sacrifice. usually less than 1kwh per load of power uses, compared to 5kwh with conventional dryer.
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