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Bellaivy32

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Hi, could someone help and advise please. I need the use of a nebuliser, on a daily basis, therefore, we need to buy a generator. Could anyone recommend a good reliable one, that would fit the bill?

Christine
 
Depends on power requirements. A quick look on Google suggests nebulisers take about 375w for 10-15 minutes at a time every few hours. Is that about right?
 
Bellaivy32 said:
Hi, could someone help and advise please. I need the use of a nebuliser, on a daily basis, therefore, we need to buy a generator. Could anyone recommend a good reliable one, that would fit the bill?

Christine
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Depends on what power you require as this will be on price and make, many say honda but after 2 which packed in i would now look to other makes, someone with a better use of makes will be along, meentime find out power you require, small units start around 600w output.
 
AndyWill64 said:
Depends on power requirements. A quick look on Google suggests nebulisers take about 375w for 10-15 minutes at a time every few hours. Is that about right?
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Hi, yes that's right, so I need a generator to cope with this additional electric.
Thank you for your speedy response. Christine
 
Bellaivy32 said:
Hi, yes that's right, so I need a generator to cope with this additional electric.
Thank you for your speedy response. Christine
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In that case, unless there's another reason for a generator, if you have a decent set of batteries and solar panels I suspect an inverter would do the job, even of it means running the engine occasionally.

It's always worth investing in a "pure sine wave" version though - they're not massively more expensive, but much kinder to the devices plugged into them.
 
Please check nebuliser model some of them are 12 volt units that have 240v power supply and down rated to 12 volts so you might be able to run from a cigarette lighter socket with the correct adaptor
 
andyjanet said:
Please check nebuliser model some of them are 12 volt units that have 240v power supply and down rated to 12 volts so you might be able to run from a cigarette lighter socket with the correct adaptor
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Possibly, although worth remembering that the nominal '12v' supply in vehicles can easily be over 14v at times.
 
AndyWill64 said:
Possibly, although worth remembering that the nominal '12v' supply in vehicles can easily be over 14v at times.
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This is why I said with the correct adaptor,
And I would think the unit would cope with a slightly higher voltage , if in doubt ask the manufacturer
 
andyjanet said:
This is why I said with the correct adaptor,
And I would think the unit would cope with a slightly higher voltage , if in doubt ask the manufacturer
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Fair enough, although to many, an adapter is a passive device that just changes connectors.

375w at 12v is around 32a, and a voltage stabiliser of that size won't be cheap.

And 14v is 16% higher than 12v, 14.4v is 20%, so not insignificant.
 
AndyWill64 said:
In that case, unless there's another reason for a generator, if you have a decent set of batteries and solar panels I suspect an inverter would do the job, even of it means running the engine occasionally.

It's always worth investing in a "pure sine wave" version though - they're not massively more expensive, but much kinder to the devices plugged into them.
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Bad thing to do to an engine, they need to be under a big load.
 
Bellaivy32 said:
Hi, could someone help and advise please. I need the use of a nebuliser, on a daily basis, therefore, we need to buy a generator. Could anyone recommend a good reliable one, that would fit
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looks like @Bellaivy32 have lost interest would have been good to know what he had decided
 
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