I have a stupid question (Blender).

[Basement Yeti]

I'm missing a lot of my guts and I have trouble keeping weight on eating solid foods. I live in my van nearly full time and I am finding it very hard to keep fed. Since I have been back at my sisters I have been blending a lot of food, smoothies and stuff, and it has helped immensely with keeping weight on.

Are there any 12V blenders that are decent, and that won't run down either of my batteries really fast?

Let's say if I use it 1x a day for a couple minutes to make my food for the day.

Thanks.

 

[Lance4me]

http://www.jcwhitney.com/12-volt-pa...d=376033&filterid=i1482j1&_requestid=13250834

 

[Ted_Z]

http://www.jcwhitney.com/12-volt-pa...d=376033&filterid=i1482j1&_requestid=13250834

For that price ($75 +shipping) I bet you could buy an inverter and a cheap blender at your local walmart/target/sears and then you'd have an inverter too. Make sure to check the blender's motor's watts an pick a properly sized inverter.

 

[Basement Yeti]

thanks for the tips guys! I guess I should get an inverter, thanks!

 

[1911]

For that price ($75 +shipping) I bet you could buy an inverter and a cheap blender at your local walmart/target/sears and then you'd have an inverter too. Make sure to check the blender's motor's watts an pick a properly sized inverter.

That's what I was going to suggest.

 

[Hill Bill E.]

thanks for the tips guys! I guess I should get an inverter, thanks!

Yep, an Inverter is the way to go!

A friend of mine had one of the 12V blenders from JCW. I'm betting a 110V blender and inverter will be less of a draw on the battery to produce the same product.

The 12V one seemed to take twice as long to blend anything. They did smoothies and some food for their baby.


A bonus is, most inverters will 'shut down' or give an audible warning, when the 12V battery is getting to low to start the rig. Handy if you only have one battery.

 

[Errant]

Not stupid at all! I had my teeth wired shut for 18 weeks, and know the impotence of a blender

How about a GSI Vortex hand-crank blender?

 

[ExpoMike]

Forget the 110 or 12 volt powered blenders, go big time with a gas powered one!!!

http://www.tailgatorzone.com/features.html

 

[desertrover]

I use one of these in the mog. Cheap, and only 175 watts. The inverter doesn't flinch. However, if I was going to blend a large percentage of my food, I'd shop around for a good deal on a used vitamix.

 

[GeoScum]

Not stupid at all! I had my teeth wired shut for 18 weeks, and know the impotence of a blender

Is that spelling correct?

 

[Cabrito]

We were just trying this out last week.

Our blender is 450 watts and our Inverter is a 1k watts.

I tried to run it off our 12v jump pack but that did not work at all.

We ended up just doing it off the truck battery with the truck running. The thing definitely ran slower than usual, but it got the job done.

 

[craig333]

I have a 12v blender. Works pretty well. Sorry its not at home atm or I'd check the brand.

The best I've seen one was one that a guy rigged to run off of the pto. That could make some serious margaritas.

 

[RandomAbstract]

Hand Crank Blender

I don't know if this would meet your needs, but I almost bought one to make frappe's.

http://www.rei.com/product/782969/gsi-outdoors-vortex-blender

 

[Basement Yeti]

Wow, I certainly have a lot of options. I will probably go the electric/inverter route because I blend A LOT of food every AM.

 

[desertrover]

Have you picked out an inverter yet? I'd pick out the blender first, as it will probably be the highest wattage appliance you'll use. If you want to be able to really pulp up some greens or frozen fruit, you'll need a heavy duty blender that will tax even very large inverters. I'm having good luck so far with a big powerbright inverter from amazon. I wouldn't run an audio system with one, but it's great at running big electric motors.
-CJ