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This makes sense. When I’m feeling curious, I’ll bust it out again and see if I can catch the peak power draw on the app. Thanks for pointing this out. A bit obvious in hindsight.

This is a great question. I looked at the ProPower app in the truck while the dryer was running and it showed consumption of around 400W. Heat was on medium setting. This is nowhere close to the 3500W limit on the truck bed circuit. Assuming high heat was double I could have run 4 dryers at the...

Yes, yes. Baby steps for me. Not as urgent since I already have the backup gas generator (you can see the sub panel near the garage door). Just a neat realization that wasn't obvious to me until a multi-day power outage forced me to figure out if I could still do laundry 😁

In the recent power outage in the Seattle area, I was happy to be able to run the electric dryer off the truck as my backup gas generator does not supply 220V appliances.