Powering diesel heater

[xaugievike]

Thought I might turn to the experts here...

So over the winter I grabbed a planar diesel heater. It works awesome...has a side benefit of heating my garage in the cold season too. Anyway, it came with ring terminals to run straight off the batteries, I cut those off and put on an appropriately sized 12v accessory plug. I tested that set up with my existing Jackery 500. It worked great!

So then I decided to grab a Jackery 1000 so that when I get out to the field with this setup, I'll have more juice. The Jackery 1000 wont run it. There's a noticeable power flicker that occurs at start up, and at low wattage (like 22 watts initially). On paper all capacities and loads should add up to everything working well.

Jackery was awesome about it. They took the first 1000 back, sent me a new one. Same thing. So I'm starting to think the outlier here is my 500...The only other 12v plug accessory I have is my fridge, and it runs fine on the 1000.

anyway, my question. Does anyone have thoughts on a way to power this heater off my 1000 without resorting to a AC to DC converter for the 110v outlets (I dont want to hear that fan all night)? Is there something to put in between? Like a capacitor or something to get past that startup jolt?

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[Bluebeast]

100 ah marine battery in a battery box from Walmart? It works great for mine! As far as the jackery I can't help.

 

[zb39]

I installed the genisis dual battery system. Can't help with jackery.

 

[Jeeplovercanada]

Thought I might turn to the experts here...

So over the winter I grabbed a planar diesel heater. It works awesome...has a side benefit of heating my garage in the cold season too. Anyway, it came with ring terminals to run straight off the batteries, I cut those off and put on an appropriately sized 12v accessory plug. I tested that set up with my existing Jackery 500. It worked great!

So then I decided to grab a Jackery 1000 so that when I get out to the field with this setup, I'll have more juice. The Jackery 1000 wont run it. There's a noticeable power flicker that occurs at start up, and at low wattage (like 22 watts initially). On paper all capacities and loads should add up to everything working well.

Jackery was awesome about it. They took the first 1000 back, sent me a new one. Same thing. So I'm starting to think the outlier here is my 500...The only other 12v plug accessory I have is my fridge, and it runs fine on the 1000.

anyway, my question. Does anyone have thoughts on a way to power this heater off my 1000 without resorting to a AC to DC converter for the 110v outlets (I dont want to hear that fan all night)? Is there something to put in between? Like a capacitor or something to get past that startup jolt?

Hi I’m facing the same problem and emailed to jackery but didn’t hear anything yet did u fix the problem I also want to use diesel heater on jackery 1000 showing error 02 which stand for overvoltage but works fine with another batteries

 

[xaugievike]

unfortunately no. Seems that the draw is just momentarily too much for that plug. All specs indicate that it should be fine, but it isnt. I resigned myself to just using the 500 for now. May look at a LiFePo option down the road if I get serious about this.

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