Maybe you are constantly on the go and spend a lot of time in your car, and you have more than two devices to charge at a time. The other thing you worry about is your car constantly being ran, and you are worried about the consumption of your car battery and engine. You want to give your car a break and turn it off sometimes. Yet, you still have to work, and your devices needs to be charged because you are constantly pulling electricity into them. How do you preserve battery life and still complete all of the things you want to accomplish?

Day-in-and-day-out, these are issues I come across on a continuous basis. I have a laptop, a phone, and a heated blanket to keep me warm. My heated blanket keeps cutting off my car and blowing a fuse every time I use my devices. Then I have to go to Walmart to buy more fuse to replace the broken ones. Now, I have the slightest clue about changing fuses and don’t have no idea what I am doing. I begin to research and found out that my car has two different areas for my fuse. One of the area I have access to, but the other area that holds my fuse box is underneath the hood of my car and under the batteries. And the other fuse is inside the car, so this give me access to change my fuse for certain items like my USB ports and my lighter charger.

I have found a solution to this problem where I won’t pull more current than my car can handle, and that is with a Voltage converter. Now, there are other issues related to this, as I do still have to pull current from somewhere in order to not exhaust my car. I have research and found a solution to this problem. I located a device that acts as a charger, however, what I found is some of these devices take hours to charge or have to be continuously pulling charge from somewhere. This is when I came up with an idea that I could pull current from a small universal battery used in a lawn mower or a car. The only thing I needed is a converter and a grounding cable, and I could build my own battery without pulling solar power unless necessary.

Sometimes there isn’t sunlight available to pull enough current into your devices or even to hold the current without depleting it. This is why you must have alternative power sources.

4 things you need to consider when using a high Voltage Converter with a Battery or solar power

When purchasing a high voltage converter, a battery, or a solar generator. It’s important to keep these things in mind. You must do the math and understand how much usage you need out of the source you are pulling power from. Such information to keep in mind is the amount of time you want to use your devices. This means how many hours you need to use your device and how much power you are pulling from the device.

How do you calculate how much current you need?

The first thing you want to know is the total amount of time you need to work for. Let’s say you need your device 8 hours per day and there are 24 hours in one day. That you need to draw current from your power source. This power source could be from the Sun through your solar device or from your battery. The way you calculate this is by using this formula, AMP hours = AH. AMP hour is the amount of time you will be using your device.

Let’s say you use 8 hours a day for your computer and phone, and 5 hours a day for your heated blanket for 7 days a week. The first thing you want to know is how much “Watt” each device pulls. Let say your computer uses 45 W, and your phone pulls 20 W, how do you know how much current you need to pull?

The formula is AMP hours a day (times) x how many days you need to use the devices, which mean the amount of time you will be pulling current to power or charge these devices.

For my computer:

It’s the same formula for all devices.

My laptop draws 45(W)

My laptop is used for 8 AMP hours a day, for 7 days a week, 8 x 7= 56 AMP hours for 7 days, at 8 hours a day for my laptop.
56 AMP hours x 45 volt = 2520 WATT hours just for my computer.

For my phone:

It’s the same formula for all devices.

My phone draws 30(W)

My phone is used for 8 AMP hours a day, for 7 days a week, 8 x 7= 56 AMP hours for 7 days, at 8 hours a day for my phone.
56 AMP hours x 30 volt = 1680 WATT hours just for my phone.

For my heated blanket:

It’s the same formula for all devices.

My heated blanket 12(W)

My heated blanket is used for 5 AMP hours a day, for 7 days a week, 5 x 7= 35 AMP hours for 7 days, at 8 hours a day for my heated blanket.

35 AMP hours x 12 volt = 420 WATT hours just for my heated blanket.

In total, 2520 + 1680 + 420 = 4620 Watt hours for 7 days in total of how much current I be pulling to charge my devices.

The Battery you will need, or solar generator will need a total of, 4620 (W) to be powered.

If you are using a solar generator and need the Sunlight. Let’s determine how much sunlight you need to power the solar panel charger to recharge your portable backup generator.

Let’s say you have sunlight from 6 am until 5 pm. That’s 11 hours of sunlight. 4620 Watt (divide (/))11 hour of sunlight = 420.00 Watt to charge your devices per day at 87 AMP hours (45+30+12=87 this is the total watt AMP Hours for the devices). Now, pretend that your battery is the sun, and you can pull 11 hours of sunlight from your battery a day. You would still need 420.00 Watt for your battery unless you need to pull more current for more than 11 hours, then the 420.00 would change. Let’s say you need to pull 15 hours from the sun or your battery. 4620/15=307.66, let say your battery or the sun give you less than 11 hours. Let’s say it gives you 8 hours, the formula would be 4620/8=577.8 that how much power you would need to pull from else where.

So, when you purchase your solar power charger or your battery you need to have a charge from your portable generator or battery or your solar power charger must hold at least 400.00 Watt per day. I would get a solar power charge that would average 400 Watt where it holds more electricity to charge my devices.

Here are the high Voltage Converter, battery, I recommend.

When looking for a portable generator, I would look how much charge this device can hold and for how many hours. And when I am looking for a solar power charger, I will look for a solar panel charge that would hold electricity that would more than double the amount of power I needed to sustain my devices.

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