Haygain steamers?

[sychnant]

Hi everyone,
2 of my horses started coughing over winter. They have soaked hay in the stable but soaking enough for a day's turnout is miserable!
I want to get a Haygain, but have no electricity at the yard. Does anyone know if it's possible to run one off a leisure battery? Haygain swerved the question and suggested using a generator, but I don't want to leave a generator running unattended.
I'm guessing it's not possible, but it's worth asking just in case!!

 

[Tiddlypom]

See here: https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/haygain-steamers.816559/#post-14999916 (Forum Admin Team).

Interesting question .

Techie OH is now on the case for running the Haygain One, which is what we have. And the answer is yes ?.

To steam from cold, I run the 1.5kW steamer for 1 hour 15 minutes, which is equivalent to 1.9 kWh.

A typical leisure battery has 80 kWh capacity, of which 40 kWh is readily available. So your leisure battery can run approx 20 loads, but you would need a 3 kW inverter (cost approx £200) to convert 12v to 230v.

 

[sychnant]

Wow, not only a quick and knowledgeable answer, but the one I was hoping for!!!

Thanks so much

 

[EJBond]

Hi Sychnant, did you invest in a haygain, battery & inverter and does it work?

 

[Tiddlypom]

Interesting question .

Techie OH is now on the case for running the Haygain One, which is what we have. And the answer is yes ?.

To steam from cold, I run the 1.5kW steamer for 1 hour 15 minutes, which is equivalent to 1.9 kWh.

A typical leisure battery has 80 kWh capacity, of which 40 kWh is readily available. So your leisure battery can run approx 20 loads, but you would need a 3 kW inverter (cost approx £200) to convert 12v to 230v.

Whoops, uncharacteristic error from OH on that. Hope that OP wasn't inconvenienced.

No, it won't work. There was an amps/kilowatts confusion ?. A regular leisure battery hasn't got sufficient capacity.

I'll ask admin to take my original reply down.