Thanks, I do have an inverter for my car, on that actually has two 110v outlets, but it’s a little noisy.
Dry Guy Travel Dry doesn’t have a fan whereas the Travel Dry Dx does have fans.
Discussed in my link the other post. The dry guy orange things work fine and what I suggested for warming on the drive to the slope.
Get the bigger ones with the fan, so you can get a more efficient drying as well as warming. It is still very low powered. Looking at my older orange dryguy (full size, not travel but no fan) they have a label saying 5w power on each foot (so take that as 10w total). I don't have the newer one with the fan, I don't think will add on much more wattage. Maybe 20w total at most.
Looking at my Therm-ic Refresher it indicates 50w.
As far as a car inverter and the electronics and my take on what happened to sibhusky..
The typical car cigarette accessory has a 10Amp fuse. 10Amp at 12v means 120w DC draw.
After DC->AC conversion losses, the max load and inverter you should buy to put in a cigarette port is one labelled as a 75w or 100w inverter (depending on how they do math and marketting), and sticking with about 75watts as your practical limit, assuming the inverter is a recent efficient and modern one.
If you buy an inappropriately sized inverter, you are actually working against yourself. Like assume you buy one rated for 200w or 400w or 600w because bigger is better, right?. The bigger inverters require extra power overhead and extra stuff like cooling fans for that higher load. This extra overhead actually lowers the usable power before tripping the fuse. Because the limits don't match, you are just setting yourself up to pop fuses by having mismatched loads.
For those bigger inverters, you are expected to either hardwire that to the battery or have custom wiring that has a higher amperage, you weren't supposed to use those with the OEM built-in cigarette ports.
A inverter sized for 100w or 75w likely shouldn't have excessive cooling fans and extra overhead as this load is small enough for mostly passive cooling. It also shouldn't be buzzing or making noise. It should never pop fuses unless some other wiring is bad or there's a fault. It should also go into overload mode and shut itself down first based on its rating before that.
If you need 2 sockets for 2 devices, you are better off getting the small inverter and a $1.99 extension cord. You can't use the extra electrical power unless you have rewired your car.
Sum things up in practical usage; I can use both of my refresher and orange dryguys simultaneously with 1 cigarette port on my car and the 2.1amp usb phone charger. 50w+10w +10w for usb still is below my self-imposed 75w limit.
Also plugging in the refreshers during for the 4hr commute from Tahoe back to the bay area means boots are dry and ready for next trip without needing to do that back at home.
