Air Fryer off battery possible?

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Hi, loving my Fogstar Drift 105ah over my previous lead acid experience but we tend to take an air fryer with us to expand cooking options and that is forcing us to get hookup despite having lots of spare battery capacity. We dont have solar btw.

I dont know if the battery is powerful enough (the air fryer is rated at 1300w) and I know little about inverters but is it even vaguely possible to do this simply and easily?

BTW There is an extensive thread on here about my lead acid battery problems and my swap to Lifep04. I couldnt have done this without help from the experts on here and I suspect that project was close to the limit on what i would attempt by myself.

TIA
 
That will be drawing 108 amps (=1300/12) out of your battery. According to Fogstar their max current is 100 amps, and they recommend up to a 1kw inverter.

I don’t have an inverter in my setup, so I’m no expert, but cooking off a battery supply generally needs some pretty heavy duty kit.
 
I've got a Fogstar 230ah with a 1k invertor. I have a super small air fryer that peaks at 1200w at start up and around 600-800w once up to temp and it will run on the invertor but that's way to much stress really.

I run the air fryer off a Jackery which can run at 1500w and peak to 3000w.

I wouldn't want to run an air fryer on anything less than a 230ah battery with a 2000w invertor or a decent power station.
 
We use an Airfryer on our 'in-van' system with a 2kw inverter or our Bluetti 180. It uses about 10% of the Bluetti's 90Ah capacity every time we fire it up for 10 minutes.
Great to use though but solar panels are worth having to put some power back in!
 
We run an air fryer.

A Ninja Twin draw.

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But the recommendation is to have a 100ah battery per 1000w inverter of inverter power.

So 1300w would need 2*100ah lithiums and a 2000w inverter.

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Or

Just use a EcoFlow (or similar) to power the air fryer, and use your 1* lithium and 1000w inverter to recharge the portable power station.
 
Basically no.

You would need to double your battery, or find a low-powered air fryer, if there is such a thing?
 
DXX said:
You could get a takeaway delivered by limo’ for a fraction of the price.
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I could also point out that the price of a camper would pay for quite a few nights in 5 star hotels but yeah I get it.

Oh well guess thats a "no" then.

Thanks all.
 
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borat said:
Which one do you have? We’ve got a 3kw Clayton LPS with 350w solar. Assume in theory this should be able to run one for long enough to be useful?
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There's loads of lowish wattage Airfryers out there, ours is a Morphy Richards cheapo which works well on both the van system and the Bluetti. Certainly useful! On a 3kw system you could run a twin bucket 2kw+ airfryer easily! You've got enough solar to put the power back...
 
I’ve just bought a 300ah battery and 2kW inverter. Read some interesting comments above about running it off a power bank (Bluetti, EcoFlow etc) and then charging said bank via the inverter. Never thought of that really. I’m going gasless so have a 1kW induction hob too
 
I’ve just ordered one of these as seems well reviewed and compact. generally it’s only me and the Mrs and price seems decent. I think the limitation with the Clayton is the battery is only 160ah so whilst inverter has plenty of juice it would run down. But, I think for up to an hr of cooking in decent sunshine we should be fine
 
If you already have a big battery, with a charger and an inverter, why would you buy a separate power bank, which is a battery strapped to a charger and an inverter? And then drain power from one to the other via an inverter and a transformer?
 
I can understand that if you have big solar strapped to one or the other, keeping the powerbank topped up by the van equipped with solar. We take out portable panels to keep the Bluetti topped up and it's usually the Bluetti that powers the airfryer. The van has its own solar on the lid.
 
drinfinity said:
If you already have a big battery, with a charger and an inverter, why would you buy a separate power bank, which is a battery strapped to a charger and an inverter? And then drain power from one to the other via an inverter and a transformer?
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I guess for the instances where your power bank can handle a higher load than your van LB or inverter. I'll be fine, I wont need to do the above, I just thought it was an interesting workaround for some people
 
I have a 100Ah lifepo but no inverter. When looking at the cost of a quality inverter and associated cabling and the problem of finding a permanent fixture point I decided to opt instead for a Bluetti 180. For not much more outlay it gives me another 90Ah lifepo battery, 1800W of inverter power and very importantly - portability.
I bought it mainly to be able to charge our ebikes while leaving them on the bike rack, but I have now bought a pod coffee machine and a toaster.
After use I plug it in to a 10Amp power socket in the van and charge it back up from the van leisure battery. This is only at 8 Amps, but i'm never in a rush. The solar puts abit back into the LB and next time I drive anywhere it fully charges the LB.
I also use the Bluestti at home to charge the ebikes and then I pop it in the van to recharge it. So i'm recharging our ebikes at home for free.
I paid just over £400 for the Bluetti and that gets an inverter, 90Ah lifepo, wireless phone charger, numerous usb options and portability and versatility.
Personally it's been a far better choice than installing an inverter.
 
T6ChrisO said:
I’ve just bought a 300ah battery and 2kW inverter. Read some interesting comments above about running it off a power bank (Bluetti, EcoFlow etc) and then charging said bank via the inverter. Never thought of that really. I’m going gasless so have a 1kW induction hob too
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I do this both ways as and when needed.

Solar to Fogstar.
Fogstar to Jackery via invertor.
Jackery to Fogstar via 20a charger for a bit of fast charge when needed.

Re the comment about why have both. Having a power station that is removable is great both when camping and for other uses. I use it to plug the lawn mower in for the front garden so I don't have to run and extension lead. Pumping up the paddleboard down the beach. The wife does a bunch of driving for work and takes it to charge her laptop in the car.
 
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